Purim Memories and Purim Pictures – Happy Purim!

It’s the Jewish holiday of Purim today.

If you’re not familiar with Purim, here’s the full description in Wikipedia.

Purim and Me

Purim is the holiday of fun for the kids. Kids dress up, give and get packets of sweets. There are also mini-carnivals in most cities where all the kids come dressed up in their costumes and there’s some sort of a parade.

I’ve heard that religious people tend to get drunk on the holiday, or something along those lines. Fortunately, I live in a totally secular milieu, or at least secular enough not to have to deal with drunkards

At this point, you can scroll down to today’s Purim pictures or hang on with me for a short trip down memory lane.

Early childhood makeup memories. Purim was the time when it was perfectly ok to grab Mommy’s makeup kit and play with it. I can still smell that blush stick I used to smear all over my face trying to paint various patterns.

Sixth grade. I wake up early in the morning, lying in bed and thinking about how much I’m going to enjoy going to school in my fancy costume. My hand goes through my hair, leisurely, and I feel a strange little bump, and then another. I recall lying there peaceful, trying to figure out what the weird bumps in my hair were. Then I feel them on my face too. Measles – no Purim parties for me that year.

On my first year of hi-school. I dress up as a pregnant woman, walking down our street with a huge pillow under one of Mom’s maternity dresses. A few days later, Mom tells me the two old ladies living on the end of our street forgot about the holiday and were spreading some gossip about how I got pregnant at such a young age. We had a good laugh at it too.

Aged 24, in the IDF, in one of the (then) tallest buildings in Tel Aviv. I’m standing in the office, looking through the window, when this huge blast shakes the glass. It’s one in a chain of suicide bomber attacks, but this one is right on Purim, killing 13 people in a busy shopping center including several kids in their costumes.

And after this journey into one Israeli Mom’s psyche… back to real Purim today and some fun pictures!

Ron the black knight:

Dan aka Ben 10:

Dan in school with his teacher (aka the Queen of Clouds)

Kids at the school this morning -

I’m not sure who this grownup woman is, but I’m pretty sure we don’t really have a jet fighter pilot among our school staff:

Last, but not least, the “Mishlo’ah Manot” which we made for school. It’s one tradition we do still keep in schools, where kids bring a packet of cakes and sweets each. The teachers then run a draw and each kid gets someone else’s packet. Here’s what we made yesterday -

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