It all started out well enough - carefully set table, antique ritual objects, a symbolic orange. One would think such an occasion would be marked with serious reverence, but no, we mix up the prayers on the first page and it disintegrated from that point on. Flying gummy frogs, lizards climbing into wine bottles, giggling over who will read the simple son. In contrast, the children were well behaved and serious, with Hannah leading us in song in Fran's absence. The final low point for me came when Arlene dropped a toy lion in my water glass to test if it would float (it didn't) and then fished it out with her fingers. Doesn't matter, we drank the obligatory 4 glasses of wine and the cat didn't escape. Next year at Don and Arlene's!
Spent Monday night at Jared's in Laguna Beach. Mar was here from NYC and Beth invited me up to relax on my first day of spring break. We started by finishing a bottle of champagne and walking across the street to show Mar the Montage Resort. The view is spectacular and the weather did not make Mar miss NY one moment. We trudged back up the hill in our flip flops and celebrated Laguna beach with more wine, dinner with Steve, karaoke, razzberry lemon martinis, and matzah toffee. Good times...
Madeline seems to think Lee is her personal mattress - he stretches out on the sofa and she's right there. Or she's perched on top of him when he wakes up. Sometimes she digs under the covers with him or meows her discontent at being ignored. Both cats play favorites - Madeline prefers Lee and Darby prefers his box.
