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Oy, the fa la la’s are out to assimilate me…
By Betsy Richter | 9:57 pmFor someone who has mostly disavowed Christmas and merely dialed it in for Hanukah this year, I’m still insanely busy.
Sure, I’m not shopping or cookie baking or preparing for the onslaught of relatives from near and far. But I’m still schlepping children hither and yon, whether it’s for shabbat school or chorus performances or impromptu playdates.
And my goal to not set foot in a shopping mall this season fell by the wayside today when The Father and I arranged for the kid-handoff to happen at our local mall, oy. (I’m still not quite sure why I agreed to take home a bunch of his gifts, which we’ll wrap and deliver back to him at an appropriate time…)
I do, however, manage to partake in certain holiday traditions. The office holiday party? Check. The totally informal team party (where I brought an entire vat of bourbon and rum-spiked eggnog, no less)? Check. Tearing up when my Jewish child performs several Christmas carols later this week as part of her school’s Chorus? Oh, absolutely, Check (and don’t forget to pack the Kleenex this time, will you?)
Still to come: My Christmas Adam celebration with the kids (I’m thinking it’ll be another Dungeness crab feast) before I send them off with their dad for Christmas. The traditional Christmas Eve celebration with friends at a local Chinese restaurant. And the low-key Christmas Day dinner with the same loose constellation of friends without family nearby.
So if I’m not around much in the next few days? Call it a case where the ‘pseudo-Jew’* gets sucked into the holiday maelstrom despite herself, will you…?
* Pseudo-Jew: has the synagogue membership, has the Jewish kids, teaches Shabbat school and is on the B’nai Mitzvah committee – yet is Not Really Jewish herself, don’t you know…!
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