I had such a lovely Yom Tov season with friends and family, and lots of shul. I actually got to daven a few times, which is so rare, but so nice. I Loved dancing with my daughter and the other children in shul on Simchat Torah and watching my daughter have such a great time laughing and jumping and dancing with the other women in shul. That was really special to me. She also got to kiss the Torah on the women's side upstairs, which is a big freakin deal at my shul that many of the people there, my daughter included, don't even know about that struggle. One of my greatest joys of the holiday was when my husband took my children for the "Kol Hanearim" aliyah. I may have cried. But then I laughed when my son spat up on my husband's suit and tallit. Thank God he did not spit up on the Torah scroll! But one of the funniest highlights for me was sitting on my terrace, having dinner with my husband on Simchat Torah night, after kids were asleep, and being serenaded by the woman in the bar across the street singing really bad karaoke to "Livin' on a Prayer" and "My Heart Will Go On".
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