Purim in Aylmer

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the book of Esther.

Leo was playing drums at the party and the rabbi invited the whole family to come along with him to the celebration.

Everyone was to come in costume.

So the dreaded hour when a mother has to go through the costume box again ... that hour that is usually saved just for Halloween occurred again last night.

"I am Flower."

Naomi was giving her skunk costume another try. At Halloween some kids told her, "You are a skunk? You stink." So the skunk costume has been reappropriated to the Disney version of skunk -- the one called flower, which flower you can see in Naomi's ear.

As well, the costume was purchased online when she told her parents she wanted to be a skunk, and it is made from fake fun fur.

Naomi has discovered that is is just fake fun, because the inside of the material is more like a hair shirt, something that you would only want to wear if you were trying very hard to repent of some terrible sin.

By the time she got ready, she was out of the costume mood, and out of her costume and make-up -- even before she hit the party.

Freckles to die for !

Xavier has a helmet saved high in his bedroom shelves.

And he had appropriate leg bindings that went from his shoes, and laced up his calf, so he looked pretty good.



I am a lady bug


Rhiannon was a bug ... a lady bug, which was one step up from her look during the rest of the day.

Early in the morning she insisted that her pony tail should come forward on her head, not backward,



I insist on wearing my pony tail forward


There was a bit of a Tallulah Bankhead look to her which I do want to remember.

I took out my camera to capture it.

I didn't join them at the party, but they did say a good time was had by all.

Arta