Purim 2025
We had rains this week here in southern California. It’s still winter here (highs in the 50s, which is considered Antarctic ), so it takes a little more time to get kids into their boots and rain jackets and hoodies—let alone the extended effort to get the kids then into the car. Pair that with toddlers who have to do everything on their own (except they can’t) and you are guaranteed to have tears before school. The kids get unhappy, too.
At school this week, Matthew has been preparing for Purim, a Jewish holiday which children celebrate with mishloach manot (gifts of food and drink) and wearing of costumes. It’s kind of a low-key combination of lite Thanksgiving and lite Halloween. The kids made hamentaschen, which are particularly good pastries with a filling of some kind.
Costume-wise, Matthew has been focused on being a Purim pirate, but pirate costumes often have short sleeves and short pants, which doesn’t work for our cold mid-March weather. By the time the day was upon us, he’d forgotten about being a pirate (hello, short-attention-span toddler!) and decided to be a dinosaur.
I’m on the hook to plan his birthday party. Soon he will be four years old!