Seder

We had a grain free Passover Seder . . . with notzah balls. Those are matzah balls made with almond meal instead of matzah meal. They are actually quite good!

Brisket in the crock pot . . . smells so yummy!

Getting the table ready - - candles, seder plate and matzah notzah plate. I really should make a new one, shouldn't I? ;)

And notzah made with almond meal.

This Shabbat candleholder belonged to my grandmother. It's old and not at all modern looking, but I love it.

For our Haggadah, the book you read from at the seder that tells the story of the Jews in Egypt, I took pieces from a humanistic children's Haggadah and a Unitarian Universalist Haggadah and put them together to make one that worked for us. I think I still want to make some changes, so it is a work in progress, but it worked well for us.

And what's a holiday without a little crafting?! Princess made a sleeve for the afikomen. During the seder a piece of the notzah is broken in half and hidden for the children to find. It is needed to finish the seder, so in order to get it back, the children get a prize in exchange. We put our afikomen in the lovely sleeve. Useful and beautiful! Princess was thrilled with her prize - - an Avatar the Last Airbender Wii game.

How did you celebrate this past weekend?

First Cache

On Sunday, we all (including the royal dog) headed out to find our first geocache! Geocaching is something we've been planning on doing for a while now, we were just waiting for some better weather. Sunday was the perfect day. In fact, it was so warm that after we found our first cache, we walked back to the house so that Princess could change clothes.

There's a handy little app that we loaded onto my iPhone that guides you to the cache. Very cool!

The first container was small and it took us a while to find it! We left a ladybug treasure in it and Princess signed the log book.

After changing clothes, we headed out to find cache number 2. This one we found more quickly and left the flower (shown in the first photo).

We all really enjoyed this adventure and will definitely be doing it again. The Lizard King and Princess are already planning where to place a cache of our own for others to find. So much fun!!!