Jews in Persia way back when under King A... King A wants Queen Vashti to dance for him and his drunken pals... she says no and is banished (I have always liked that Vashti).... King goes on with business... gets lonely wants new wife...holds a beauty contest to find another Queen... enter Esther... nice Jewish orphan girl who lives with uncle Morty... Morty tells her to enter contest but not tell she is Jewish... she does and wins... there are some side stories.. Morty overhears plot to overthrow King and that is good for them later on... but king's advisor Haman wants to kill all the Jews... he gets the distracted king to agree... Morty tells Esther she needs to step in and save the day... she tells King she is Jewish and Haman has plans to take power from the king and all is saved!
Jews get dressed up in costumes - often from the story itself or other costumes- and listen to the story and make noise with groggers (noisemakers) when the name Haman is said out loud (he is the bad guy!)... we also drink until you can't tell Haman and Mordechai apart... and send little food packages out to friends and give charity (more on that later).
Yesterday, I grabbed my little crew - Jonah dressed up as Spiderman and Vera was Queen Esther - I was Haman! Vera, Jonah and I went to Adas Israel for the preschool Megillah reading and the stayed for carnival.
We did it all...
We heard the megillah (the kids loved it)
We played some carnival games
Jonah insisted on getting his face painted and Vera too - we waited 20 minutes on line and the kids actually waited?!?!
We ate lots of pickles and hamantaschen
We then waited on line again for 20 minutes for cotton candy... kids were obsessed with getting it...
That would be Purim, done, done and done!
not surprising, kids fell asleep in the car ride home... pooped out from too much purim-ing...
It was good Purim.
It has been a while since we posted... and well, it has been a long strange trip to Florida and back... upcoming posts will reveal it all! We always are adventuring and using that kaleidoscope... and it is never dull around here! We manage to laugh our way through lots of it - with a hefty order of temper tantrums, terrible twos, and crying on the side... to be continued...
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