Looking ahead to next year’s seder, I think we’ll prepare both more and less.
It went well this year. I’m reveling in the lack of Passover-related chores just now – a little more than a week ago I was looking frantically for the good flatware (more place settings than the everyday stuff), realizing we didn’t have enough drinking glasses, patting myself on the back for having effortlessly made charoses and salt water a day or two before, and fretting about how Alex would fare during the seder.
There was a certain amount of resistance on Alex’s part and a brief spell in …read more

Well, we survived Passover. Next year, I’m going to have t-shirts made up: We survived our seder! On the back: Next year at someone else’s house!
Jeff thought I should give a run-down of what went right and what I’d do differently next year, and here it is.
Drilling and practice were definitely a good idea, but on the third or fourth night of sitting around the table, all four of us, reading the parts of the Haggadah that we thought would interest Alex most, he seemed to lose interest, jumping up and helping himself to crackers, going to the bathroom, and …read more