Memories, like the corners of my matzo...

↑ Tehilla

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 5:05 pm

Baruch Dayan HaEmes, breslov. may you and your family be comforted and may we all be reunited soon with our loved ones and Moshiach.

↑ greenfire

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 5:09 pm

newmom somehow eureka sounds like the best miracle ... eurika Nervous

- can I borrow yours ... to shed my cellulite that dd was so nice to point out I indeed have ... shock

↑ Seraph

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 5:19 pm

Clarissa wrote:

Okay, my real name is "Amother." I didn't want to admit it here, because it has such negative connotations.

I'm sorry about your grandmother, Breslov. Was that her husband, who also died on Pesach, eight years ago?
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no. it was my moms dad and my dads mom.

my sils grandfather died monday. is there something about dying on chol hamoed pesach? there seems to be lots of it.

sister

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 6:35 pm

Clarrissa,

LOL

On a side note Im am so sorry that you are going through a hard time, it is probably pesach.. things will get better.. or at least that is what I keep on telling myself... LOL

Fox

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 6:54 pm

Clarissa wrote:

Did she call the soap operas her stories? I used to love when old ladies called them that.

Wow, did you make me smile! Both my grandmothers, a''h, were from Missouri. Not exactly deep South, but definitely with a Southern tinge. They watched their "stories" every day, and boy, were they mad when some national crisis caused the "stories" to be preempted.

It's strange: Today we're all so careful about what our kids see, but I remember each summer watching a daily dose of treachery, adultery, and deceit right there at grandma's arm. It never occurred to anyone that "As the World Turns" wasn't suitable fare for a ten-year-old. Sometimes I look back and wonder, "What were they thinking!?"

Crayon210

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 7:56 pm

Some posts have been edited or deleted, please PM me with any concerns.

Please keep the conversation tzanua, even if we're all just women here.

GAMZu

Mon, Apr 28 2008, 8:24 pm

Quote:

Just to add my 2 cents here, my friend's father passed away 3 years ago on the first day of Pesach. Last week, on her father's yartzeit, she gave birth to a baby boy Smile

I think that's really special.

That IS very special. And such a nechoma!

amother

Tue, Apr 29 2008, 12:06 am

Quote:

Let's just say it's not pretty. The one person here who knows it can attest to that, next time she signs on.

Truth time.

1. Clarissa's real name is beautiful. She is totally lying about the whole old fashioned spinster librarian thing.

2. Loser that I am, I managed to miss the non tzanua posts. Clarissa, can you email me the gist?

↑ grin

Tue, Apr 29 2008, 4:44 am

amother wrote:

2. Loser that I am, I managed to miss the non tzanua posts. Clarissa, can you email me the gist?

↑ freidasima

Tue, Apr 29 2008, 5:59 am

Yeah I missed the non tzanua posts as well...oh well...something to look forward to next time...

Breslov, you and your families should be comforted...and yes, Pesach is a very "popular" time to be niftar...just like more people go in the spring than in the winter...they hold on all winter somehow and go in the spring..whether it is change of season (pneumonia, other things that aggravate health issues) or psychological letdown or the fact that zaddikim are niftar on yomtov...it happens all the time...we too have Pesach great grandparents who went...my mother remembers her grandmother beating a snow on Pesach chol hamoed and then the next day she was gone...she was a very little girl and that's all she remembers about her grandmother...

Now on the happier side. Ladies, anyone have saran wrap left from Pesach, so now go and wrap it around your thighs and waist and clean house and DONT DRINK ANYTHING...and three hours later take it off and measure your inches...you will have lost!!! (Until you drink...) my grandmother, the famous Freidasima, used to tell me that on the Lower East side in the early 1900s the "girls" would take epsom salts and then go to the "shvitz" to sweat out calories before the great weekend dates in order to lose the inches and be able to close the corset...and never had anything to drink on the dates...one girl decided to break rules and ordered a soda with jelly and SHE BURST HER CORSET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DATE.

So, moral of the story. Either don't drink or don't wear corsets!

↑ chocolate moose

Tue, Mar 31 2009, 3:36 pm

bump for more lively discussion