Weekend Hospitality

Once again, I've been tardy about recapping our weekends.    Rest assured that its not because the guests were losers or duds.  Its just that after shabbat ends, we first make grilled cheese or pancakes and then have our guests sign the guest book and take a picture.  After everything settles, I'm not always ready to go back online.  By the time I remember its later in the week. Recap:Birthday weekend - Parshat Yitro My oldest brought two of his high school friends for the weekend,  Amram Sherby from Modiin and Yossi Friedman from Jerusalem.  We also hosted three young ladies from Machon Gold: Abby Singer, Sara Lopez and Anna Abramovitz. The food was pretty good (If I do say so myself).  The fried pumpkin was an experiment that I would like to retry.  We matchstick-ed about 1 pound of pumpkin and sauted it with cinnamon, cloves and brown suger.  The taste was great, but the pumpkin still have a crunchy texture.  Next time, we should par-boil the pumpkin. Recap: Post-Snow weeken...

Well that was interesting.  My Uncle Arthur was well known for collecting stray people at shul and bringing them home for Friday night dinner.  I have always thought that this was a very cool thing to do, but I've never had the chance.  Part of the problem is that you need to be in a place where people just drop in.  I've heard that one of the best places to pick up guests is in the old city of Jerusalem.  We live with the choices that we've made in life. On Friday evening, I arrived at Shul a few moments late.  One of my friends came over to me and asked if we could help with a couple of young men who were stuck on the yishuv without meals of a place to stay.  What could I say, but SURE, they are welcome at our house.  Another friend pointed out that they had an empty house (all the kids were away) and that we should let the boys stay at his house.  In the end, we compromised, they ate dinner at our house and then slept and stayed over at the other families house. Now this...

I've been tardy recapping previous weekends. While it doesn't bother me that I can't recall if a particular recipe went over well, it does bother me that I did not get a chance to thank our guests.  So here's a quick recap of our guests over the past few weeks.  My digital camera was stolen, and our analog camera takes months from taking the picture to getting a print, so these will be sans-photo! We'll start with the Kav-Lchaim weekend of Dec 22, 2007.  We hosted two young boys, not more than 10 years old with Cerebral Palsy (CP).  They were assisted by two young ladies, Nava and Shir.  Both of the girls were in the midst of their year of community service (Sherut Leumi).  They were very dedicated to their charges.  We have plenty of beds in our house and so we set up two beds downstairs in a wheelchair accessible room for the boys. We also set up two beds on the third floor to give the girls some privacy.  So much for good intentions.  It seems that the boys were ...