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[mamadeb]

I now have candles, oil (light olive oil, not the cloudy stuff in the squeeze bottles. Better oil=better flames) and wicks. Also a box of gelt for my office.

My holiday prep? Well, I need to give the candle chanukiah a hot water soak, and we have to discuss if we should clean out the oil cups for the disposable oil chanukiah or buy a new one. Which costs about $10, so I'm all for that.

Otherwise. Done.

ETA: I lied. There's the family Chanukah party, which means we need to buy gifts for three little boys and one little girl, plus immediate family gifts. I've already gotten a set of blue Le Crueset silicon spatulas for my mother-in-law, and Jonathan has found appropriate gifts for the others, but we need to find something for the fifteen-month-old, and I'm stumped, as usual, for Jonathan's gift.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I've never used an oil chanukiyyah; only the kind with candles. Where did it come from?

[zsero.livejournal.com]

<peeve> Gelt means money. Not chocolate. If you mean chocolate coins, then say so. I mean, if I said I was going to give you some money, you'd expect USA currency, wouldn't you? If I meant chocolate coins you'd expect me to say so. So why should gelt be any different? Especially since giving money is a genuine chanukah tradition, while there is no tradition for either chocolate or gifts. Thank you for listening, I'll go away now. </peeve>

[gingicat]

A good board book (or three) is good for a 15-month old. It may not be available as a board book, but I *thoroughly* recommend the picture-book version of Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins.

For Jonathan... hmm. Is there a sefer that he's been wishing he could have for study purposes?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I second Tigerbright's suggestion for a board book. I like the Sandra Boynton ones, with Barnyard Dance being a particular favorite, but all of them are pretty good. In a similar vein, Philadelphia Chickens is pretty awesome, though not a board book, but a book and CD of silly songs (written by Boynton but sung by a variety of people).

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I third the board book idea and second Boynton - a friend recommended But Not the Hippopotamus and after that was enthusiastically received by both kid and adults*, my nephews have ended up with every Boynton I've found plus some from other people.

*It's a good book for the stage when kid wants the same book read again and again and again and... and the adult has to do at least 3-5 rounds before another book or something else can be substituted.

[azurelunatic]

You have done a good deed by including the link to the Flashing Blinky Lights site. grifyn's day has been made.