The night before Passover begins, each family is supposed to perform a Bedika Chametz - or inspection for leavened food items. This custom has been changed such that one of the parents hides about 10 pieces of bread throughout the already immaculately clean house and the children are supposed to use their bedika kit (wooden spoon, feather, candle) to find and collect this bread and place in a paper bag to be burned the following morning. Note that our kids also used a flashlight - much safer than going only by candlelight. The next two pictures show the kids before the inspection and then during with Daddy. They did a super job and found all the pieces that Mama hid.
Also exciting was the parsley that Zachary grew and harvested in time for our seder. Here he is cutting the parsley to place on our Seder plate. See the previous entry for more on the parsley.
And finally - we needed a new family portrait - complete with Zachary's parsley. The kids did a super job during the Seder -- saying blessings, singing songs, and finding the afikomen. We were grateful to share our first Seder with our neighbors and friends and then the second Seder, Grammy and Grandpa joined us as well as more friends. It is wonderful to celebrate such a fun and yummy holiday with so many wonderful people.
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