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Showing posts with label Sukkot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sukkot. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Torah Family E-magazine Issue #2

It's here! Torah Family e-magazine Issue #2 Sukkot Edition is ready for download. A special thank you to all who contributed to make this issue possible. You may want to print a copy off and take it with you wherever you celebrate Sukkot. Enjoy!


Download your issue here.

Later, you will be able to find it at my website.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sukkah Pictures!

I have the first round of sukkah pictures for you to vote on. You may use whatever criteria you want to decide which one you like the best. The winner will be on the cover of the next edition of Torah Family e-magazine.

#1

# 2

# 3

# 4

Please vote by number in the comments. Thanks! Wow, I can't wait for Sukkot!


Sunday, August 7, 2011

Torah Family E-Magazine Sukkot Edition - reminder

Hello everyone!

Just sending out a little reminder to everyone to send in submissions for the sukkot edition of the magazine. I need your help. It's just not as good if I do it all myself. :)

Please send:
sukkah pictures for the photo contest (It can be a tent, a homemade structure, a camper, a screened in porch. I want people to see variety.)
sukkah drawings (give your kids an assignment and tell them they can send it to a magazine!)
sukkah stories (These can be short. I want to disperse them among the pictures.)

Thank you so much for your help. I appreciate all the positive feedback for the last issue. Please help make this issue great, too. Deadline is August 19!

send to: sheepmommy @ yahoo. com   (remove spaces)

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Feast of Tabernacles

As promised, some pictures of our sukkah!


Daddy with Naomi and Sadie in front of our sukkah. 
We hung pine branches on the walls which the goats ate with great satisfaction.



Our outdoor campfire, which kept us from being asphixiated by smoke in the sukkah.  Yeah!



The girls strolling across the hayfield in a rather little house on the prairie sort of way.
We were in the front pasture so sheep, goats, chickens and cats wandered through camp.




This is the kids' sleeping area.  They loved how we wrapped them up like tacos every night to help them keep warm.  I think they slept better than any of us grown ups.  Every evening they would snuggle up to us while we read scriptures with a flashlight, and I sang praise songs to them as they fell asleep.



Definitely no granite countertops, but who would want those anyway?  Our kitchen was quite homey and it did the job nicely.  We ate great during the feast.


I love how the light filtered through the cracks in the walls and the ceiling.



Sukkot is for all generations!  Elisha was perpetually covered with grass, dirt, mud, well, you get the idea.  Note the grass stuck to his face lol. 



Wow!  I was there too!


I have some more pics of a special project we worked on, but I'm tired of uploading photos on dialup for now.  So I'll show you those next time.  Shalom!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Season of our Joy


Happy Feast of Tabernacles to everyone!
We hope you had as joyful a time as we did.

Here we are in front of our sukkah, the whole family in the same picture!
DOUG              ELISHA      HEIDI
        NAOMI
HOLLY     ISAAC    
SADIE                  


I will be posting quite a bit about our celebration, probably tomorrow.  But for now, I wanted to share with you what I found out on a 3:00 am trip from the sukkah to the house.


SEE!  I told you it was the season of our joy!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

My Wishlist

Okay, when we have a little extra money, here is my list of nice to haves:

a siddur
a tichel from Sowers of Hope
fabric to make a huppah (we want to renew our vows this fall during Sukkot)
Bedtime Shema (a lovely picture book with bedtime prayers for children)
a real menorah
Land of Israel necklaces for my hubby and I
100% linen yardage to make some nightgowns and skirts

and until I have that extra money we shall say :Diyahnu (I don't know how to spell that lol)
anyway, it means "it is sufficient"

We are truly blessed!

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