I have not yet begun the new years’ plans.  Okay, I’ve made the chicken soup and the kreplach and baked a cake and bought most of the stuff I need – but I’ve got so many meals to cook for. Even when we’re invited out we are given responsibilities – a salad, a soup, a honey cake.  So Friday one meal, Saturday lunch – the kids that are busy with their in-laws for the holidays, Monday – dinner for the others, Tuesday – at friends.  After that we go back into relative lockdown until Yom Kippur. 

And what of the gifts?  Tomorrow is my day to skip in and out of strip malls and see what I can dig up.  We tried yesterday with some of the kids and it almost killed me.  And we found almost nothing in the shops.  They prefer online shopping anyhow.  Real life doesn’t interest them.  

Come to think of it, I prefer online as well.