Minna Meadow
Minna will be 19 months old tomorrow. Last night she awoke just after midnight and began to cry... she'd always been such a good sleeper... until this past week. She came down with a virus, but a few days after the visit to the doctor, she was back to her old happy-go-lucky self. But last night, all our attempts to rock her, to sooth her, to comfort her just got her more agitated. Eventually she cried herself into a huge huffing and puffing tantrum.
I think the non-stop intensity of this past month is starting to affect her. Having a home based business means the seperation between work and home is always blurred, and I'm sure Minna is sick and tired of having her Daddy always on the phone or stareing into the iBook or stressed out over something unkind somebody blogged or wrote in an email.
Only 11 days before Chrismukkah 2004 is over. The orders have tapered off in the last few days, and I'm thinking about having one of those a big half-price sales just after we return from our Christmas trip to visit the in-laws in Indiana.
One remaining big media story is yet to materialize... CNN International last week requested we Fed Exed card samples to their London headquarters. We understand they plan to interview Dr Johnathan Romain, the leading reform Rabbi in London - the man who first endorsed our Chrismukkah concept to the London Times back in November - will be showing our cards and doing an interview endorsing Chrismukkah and explaing how interfaith families celebrate the holidays.
Unless there are unexpected surprises, the media attention seems to be winding down. For the first time in a month, I have no sheduled interviews today. For us, there are just a few seconds left in our 15 minutes. Soon the Chrismukkah of 2004 will be a great bedtime story to tell Minna - "How Mommy and Daddy inadvertantly changed the world in a small way with an idea and a few clicks of the mouse."
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hi i'm from singapore and just discovered your blog a while ago. i watch the O.C too and i'm so amazed that you actually took the name and created a real holiday! it's way cool! anyway merry chrismukkah in advance! =)
Chrismukkuh! Why hadn't I thought of that? If we change it to that, do you think the pc crowd will leave it alone?
Y'know, if the African American's can make up Kwanzaa, then I personally see nothing wrong with Chrismukkah. The funny thing about the MSM is that they want the discord; they are so far gone that they can't see the similarities and the effort that goes into making something wonderful. Self loathing probably but hey, God bless you all!
Hi,
I'm from Tel-Aviv, Israel. Reading through your blog and personal links I was very much impressed with your family histories.
I know here lots of people who like your father had to suffer during and following Kristalnacht.
As a writer I believe in the importance of memory. The name of a holiday, be it Jewish or of any other faith, is something to be cherished since it represents Continuity and Dignity. It can be a private joke or a gimmick in a piece of satire, but it's not a trifle.
Please consider that this androgenous trivilizes and even vulgarizes Culture, History and Memory. You want your dear child to have a clear understanding and feeling of her roots.
As an aside: You won't talk to her half English/half Hebrew (if you knew it) because it might confuse her to no end and create havoc.
I like the term "Holiday Season". It is respectful, dignified and non-invasive.
As much as I abhor some violent aspects of both Christmass and Hanukah (of the last you might read at my blog team forum) - as parents and educators we must remember, and keep alive the memory of Liberation from Opression.
My dear friends, some things are simply not for sale.
This is offensive to me.
What about this is offensive?
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Chrismukkah is an interesting twist on an already over-commercialized holiday. Whether Christian, Jew, Agnostic, what have you...the Holiday season centered around the end of January has always been a time to tie up end of year business and take a break with as much of your family and friends as possible. Chrismukkah succeeds in blurring ownership to a "time of year!" It belongs to Christians no more than the Atheist.
The holiday is, from any perspective, what we, ourselves make of it. The thing that really annoys me is the amount of money corporate America makes on our family gatherings. Because the economy has been on the down-side, retailers and wholesalers alike have decided to start the holiday shopping a little earlier. They've dragged OUR family holiday into a 3-4 month sales event! All in the spirit of making a buck on us trying to enjoy a little down time with those that mean the most to us.
CNN ran an article about a week ago about the sluggish holiday sales effecting the bottom line of corporations such as WalMart and Target. While I have a grasp of how economics works, I am more than a little offended that they link whether or not we have a little extra spending money with which to spread cheer to the overall downturn to corporate America! Why can't they just lower their profit margin a tad and offer the prices that best serve their customers? And why pile on all of the savings at the end of the year? How 'bout taking care of those that have put the CEOs in the big chairs in the first place?
QQUOTE: Soon the Chrismukkah of 2004 will be just a great bedtime story to tell Minna. "How Mommy and Daddy accidentally changed the world in a tiny tiny way with just a few clicks of a mouse."
To Ron and Michelle and Minna (get well soon!) --
You did not accidentally change the world a tiny tiny tiny bit, the world changed YOU! And in future Chrismukkah seasons for interfaith couples, people will thank you deeply and heartfeltly. This was an idea waiting to be sent out into the world, and the world had been preparing for this for a long long time. OC wasn't the first to coin the term or think the think, it goes back way back. Interfaith couples have been with us for a long long time. In fact, Joseph and Miriam (Mary in English) were an interfaith couple. And Joshua Ben Joseph, their son, grew up in their household. Jesus was a half-Jew. Yes. Nobody realizes this.
Please consider that, when you pass from this world, you will find that you can not convert your Chrismukkah profits to the currency used Up There.
Religion is not something to treat lightly. Those who set their hearts to finding the truth and clinging to it will be paid in full for their efforts.
Found your blof just a while, I still haven't married yet, but being moved by the words, describing your young girl, guess must be a lovely cute baby :)And good luck to chrismukkah, don't know what it exactly is,though. I'm Chinese and never heard of this :)excuse!
"But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, set his eyes on him. And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you then not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord (of Yahhoshua)?" - Making up a hybrid holiday, out of a biblical one and a pagan one, that seems to fit the definion of perverting the right ways of Yahhoshua IMHO. TC, http://GotTorah.bloghorn.com
Thank you Thank you Thank you--- my mother was raised in a prison camp because she is Jewish, my father is the son of a United Methodist minister. All my life I have tried to blend my heritage and worried that all I was doing was confusing my children. I couldn't turn my back on either religion but how to explain to children who didn't know what Hitler was and only knew the freedom that America has, was next to impossible. I must have muddled through though, because my daughters are teaching their children the same traditions for the holidays that I have had. The Christmas tree with all blue lights in one corner and the Hanukkah table with the menorah and dreidels in the opposite corner, the seder for passover and the easter egg hunt afterwards etc. You have "legitimized" my heritage....thanks again.
The whole idea of the holiday of Chanukah is about the Jews fighting assimilation. Yes that is what the holiday about. It is not about eating potato pancakes or doughnuts. That only shows a major miracle that transpired on Chanukah. The very reason for the so-called necessity for such a holiday called Chrismukkah goes against every principle of Judaism and the Holiday of Chanukah. In Judaism a marriage of a non Jew is not even recognized as a marriage at all. All it is recognized as is a sin. Thus your wonderful Holiday that you made a nice and charming websites about is celebrating a sin. What is next? The Jewish pro-pork eating website? Or the Jewish Lets all eat on Yom Kippur website? The truth is, if the mother is Jewish, the child is Jewish. The father can be a gorilla, it makes no difference. The Truth is a Christian child does not have the right to celebrate Chanukah. Yes he does not have the right. It is a spit in the face to every Jew that actually cares about Judaism. I pity you all, who celebrate it, and for the Jews that do celebrate it, I wish you all a refouah shelaymah. I know, none of you know what it means, go ask your grandmother, if she is still alive. I am sure you all made her very proud by the way. (Note, it was not an insult)
Hi, I live in Tel-Aviv and can't help wishing I could dismantle this sick case of anti-Semitic perversion.The reason I moved to Israel from America was to avoid all the missionary/Reform/mixed marriage drama that young Jewish kids growing up in the States get hooked on so easily. But...and here's the but...if you have anything to say to this pagan posing as a rebel wanna-be, a sort of 2004 Jesus come to unite Jew and Gentile, I suggest you move to Israel and take full control of your own lives. Oh, for all the uneducated scum parading as pluralist/liberals who want to make the world a better place, I live in Tel-Aviv (not the so called "Occupied Territories") and I'm not religious, just a loyal Jew.
I enjoyed your blog very much, I am not sure where all the vitriol is coming from, as I have not seen you try to force anyone to give up thier beliefs, but what are you gonna do.
It makes me laugh though to see posts like the one above mine that is so very hateful, and yet starts off with a very jaunty "hi".
Note for the blogger that considers me "hateful": I'm Jewish and yes...I love the Jewish people and hate their enemies. If you too are Jewish please consider either converting or reading up on your roots in order to foster "ahavat Yisrael"-love of Israel. If you're Christian please tell me what you'd tell somebody mascarading as a loving Christian and celebrating pagan holidays. If you're neither, please tell me just who you think you are to have a voice concerning the "holiday" "Ron" is trying to push accross.
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