3 posts tagged “family”
Why do these things happen, why!
It's just not fair!
This post just touched my heart! Please take a minute to read it.
On a personal note, my father passed away from cancer almost 6 years ago. Its not easy. The cancer, the fight. Its not easy loosing someone you love. Watching them leave this life. Its not easy understanding why they have to go. Its not easy knowing they wont be there for the big things in your life. Its not easy being strong. I know I wouldn't have gotten through it if I didn't have friends and family and people out there thinking of me, of my family, of all of us.
So, in support of Snickollet, here is my candle.
Please take a moment to light one for her too!
My little cousins from Cape Town are in JHB for Pesach and today we are going to the Johannesburg Zoo.
I think I am very brave. My cousins are 8 and they are wild - wild enough to feel very at home in the zoo...
They are also very undisciplined but we are taking their dad with us so maybe he can reign them in a bit.
It should be fun though, I love the zoo!
My favourite exhibit is the bears, last time we went it was soooooo hot, the brown bear had it sorted though, he was splishing and splashing in his pool, without a care in the world, I love the bears.
Whats your favorite zoo animal?
In the past few weeks we have had quite a few Jewish Holidays, starting with Rosh Hashannah, New Year, followed by Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, and now we are celebrating Sukkot, Feast of Tabernacles, to be followed next week by Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, the day on which the very last portion of the Torah is read in the synagogue and, in order to convey the idea that Torah study never ends, the very first portion of the Torah is read immediately after.
Now is a time of new beginnings, settling into our new house (OK, so we have been here for almost 5 months but still), settling into a new job, and really starting to enjoy it, and maybe even considering adding a new member to our family.
All in all a very positive start to the year, here's to knowing its only going to get better!!!
