Time for some Hanukkah crafts with my two year old! We made potato prints of a star of David and a dreidel.
Lil Turnip, the two year old in the house, had a good time dipping them in the pain and stamping them on the paper.
Honestly, she has a pretty short attention span, but it was great while it lasted. We made little gift bags to fill with Gelt cookies. Post to come!
I spent the afternoon taking down our sukkah. Nomadic Hut Appreciation Week is over. This was the first year we really went back and build a real soccer instead of just visiting friends are putting up a tent in the backyard and calling it good enough. It was really fun to hang out and the weather was beautiful. Lil Turnip loved having an outdoor space to kick around in. She took her toy cars out there and hung out. Next year I want to decorate more, but one step at a time. 
So I spent Yom Kippur sick this year. The holiday came in while I was in urgent care getting antibiotics for a throat infection. I’ll spare you the photos I took of my horror movie tonsils. I got dressed and ready to go to services and then pound out and went back to bed. I haven’t been this sick for a while. We did not however cancel our Yom Kippur break fast dinner.
Turns out we can cram 16 people into our dining room for a sit down dinner if we try hard enough! Plus a little kids table in the kitchen. May you be inspired in the book of life for a sweet new year!
We hosted friends for Rosh Hashanah yesterday, which is a celebration of the Jewish new year. 
We made round braided challah and borscht. The little kids enthusiastically dipped apples in honey and we all tried new fruits of fresh yellow dates and longon. 
Shana tova to you and may you be inscribed for a sweet new year!
Shabbat shalom! I love making challah and have been doing it for years. My go-to recipe is the Mark Bittman no knead bread recipe because it makes the best easiest bread I’ve ever eaten. It’s not traditional, but I figure as long as I separate the dough and say the blessing it works. But now that I have a toddler who wants to be involved in the process I’m trying to change it up because the no knead bread is too wet and soft to braid.
After a web search for “making challah with a toddler” I ended up trying a recipe for easy challah in a bag. It turned out better than expected and I’m making it a second time today.
It’s really fun that Lil Turnip is really getting to an age where I can involve her in these kinds of projects. Even if all she wants to do is eat the raw dough. 
Radical Nurturance 