HolidayHannukah We were starting to enter the home stretch (for Hannukah if nothing else) and so decided to assemble the masses for dinner. Kaylen ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0184 arrived and everyone gathered around the table ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0185 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0186 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0187 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0188 for pasta ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0189 artichokes ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0190 broccoli ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0191 raw vegetables ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0192 salad ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0193 and bread. ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0194

Claire ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0195 Jess ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0196 and Sarah ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0197 were at one end of the table with Kaylen, ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0198 Jane, ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0199 Kaylen's wedding camera, ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0200 and the Szabos ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0201 at the other. Ben ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0202 and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0203 were looking at Josephine's Guatemalan Xmas feast ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0204 as Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0205 brought the time ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0206 and the chicken ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0207 to us.

The shamos was lit ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0208 then the first ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0209 second ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0210 third ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0211 fourth ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0212 fifth, sixth ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0213 and seventh, eighth ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0214 candles so that we could turn to the other menorah and light them up ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0215 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0216 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0217 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0218 before embracing the 3rd menorah ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0219 and the Lego menorah ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0220 and getting the dreidels ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0221 ready for action.

Jane gave me a wonderful book ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0222 as the other presents waited ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0223 and the Lord and Taylor bag ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0224 emerged along with Ben's ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0225 Oh Yuck book. Sarah got a shirt ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0226 and Jane got memory ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0227 and a camera ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0228 then Sarah (with her new shirt on) got a camera ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0229 while Jane checked out her gifts ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0230 to Ben's amusement ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0231 and Sarah worked on her camera ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0232 before Suzanne sat down ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0233 and the candles ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0234 started burning low. Sarah ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0235 then Jane ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0236 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0237 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0238 then Sarah again ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0239 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0240 got their camera together as Ben ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0241 played dreidel. The cameras ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0242 were clicking ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0243 as Suzanne returned to her knitting ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0244 and Suo and friends ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0245 showed up to tell about life in Massachusetts ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0246 while the DDR ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0247 got installed ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0248 so that the action could begin on the floor ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0249 and on the screen ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0250 while Suzanne tried to untie ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0251 and Ben watched ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0252 as the computer games continued ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0253 and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0254 spread her yarn while Jane ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0255 watched the game as the boys posed ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0256 and the next round ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0257 began.

Before going to sleep, Ben recorded his socks on the floor ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0258 and in his bed. ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0259 While we were busy, a new group assembled ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0260 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0261 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0262 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0263 ../../../Sabbat/2003/12.26-27.03Xmas3//IMG_0264 at the dining room table.