We were starting to enter the home stretch (for Hannukah
if nothing else) and so decided to assemble the masses for dinner.
Kaylen
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arrived and everyone gathered around the table
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for pasta
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artichokes
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broccoli
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raw vegetables
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salad
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and bread.
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Claire
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Jess
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and Sarah
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were at one end of the table with Kaylen,
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Jane,
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Kaylen's wedding camera,
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and the Szabos
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at the other. Ben
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and Suzanne
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were looking at Josephine's Guatemalan Xmas feast
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as Suzanne
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brought the time
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and the chicken
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to us.
The shamos was lit
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then the first
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second
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third
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fourth
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fifth, sixth
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and seventh, eighth
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candles so that we could turn to the other menorah and light them up
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before embracing the 3rd menorah
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and the Lego menorah
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and getting the dreidels
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ready for action.
Jane gave me a wonderful book
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as the other presents waited
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and the Lord and Taylor bag
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emerged along with Ben's
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Oh Yuck book. Sarah got a shirt
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and Jane got memory
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and a camera
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then Sarah (with her new shirt on) got a camera
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while Jane checked out her gifts
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to Ben's amusement
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and Sarah worked on her camera
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before Suzanne sat down
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and the candles
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started burning low.
Sarah
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then Jane
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then Sarah again
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got their camera together as Ben
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played dreidel. The cameras
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were clicking
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as Suzanne returned to her knitting
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and Suo and friends
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showed up to tell about life in Massachusetts
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while the DDR
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got installed
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so that the action could begin on the floor
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and on the screen
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while Suzanne tried to untie
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and Ben watched
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as the computer games continued
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and Suzanne
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spread her yarn while Jane
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watched the game as the boys posed
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and the next round
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began.
Before going to sleep, Ben recorded his socks on the floor
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and in his bed.
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While we were busy, a new group assembled
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at the dining room table.
Saturday was a quieter day. We recorded the parking lot with crane
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and up close
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and then went to a movie where we saw Jane, Weiss and Kevin
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before recording our group
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at Mone Lisa Smile.
Back at home, Sarah and John
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and Sarah and Julianna
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posed before re-enacting the Nassau Nursery School
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Halloween scene. This inspired Ben to take pictures of the videos
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and a blank one
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and closeups
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then a final video
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before the Annie's was recorded
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and this artistic picture of 2 cameras
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from one and this image of Peter
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trying to untie
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and Suzanne
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knew what her night project would be.