Prepare my home for Passover 2006

We did it, though at the very last minute. I can’t believe that I didn’t mark this as done, before!

As with most really tricky stuff, this took time, patience as focus on the goal. Oh, and friends (like Little Terry, and the whole Passover team). So worth the trouble though, both spiritualy and physically.

This was my first time in preparing my home, and I think I did an adequate job. In the final two weeks before Pesach, I certainly learned a lot about the holiday and about chametz and kashrut, thanks to study and 43things. Next time I’ll do better! So I think I can retire this…until 2007.

but also felt like I didn’t really do it right. Still, it was a start, and maybe next year I’ll take it up another notch.

Ready as I’ll ever be! Can’t wait to taste the charoset and matza!

... is worth it every year!

DONE! WOW!

All the cleaning is done and the chometz is SOLD! Now, I just need to do some grocery shopping and start cooking for the Seder.

Case anyone’s wondering… I haven’t been on much cause I ain’t been doin’ not’in sept cleanin’.

I’ve gotten freaked out enough just trying to clean out the house and sort out regular meals for Passover, I can’t even imagine the added angst of putting on a huge Seder for a family and doing all the cooking for that too. Yow.

Baby steps, girl, baby steps…

Whew! All the chametz is out of the house(1), my passover goodies are nestled on their nice clean shelf. I’m eating my last sandwich for lunch, drinking my last beer. After lunch I do the final wipedown of the kitchen. Then I clean out the car and I’m done! And I still should be able to make it to the “Intro to Judaism” class tonight which is cool because we are doing the history section and tonight’s topic is the transition from temple Judaism to rabbinic Judaism, which I’m really interested in, and was afraid I’d be too wiped out to make it to.

So how many of the team here do the searching for chametz and burning of it? That’s tonight, right?

(1) Except for the dog food. The dogs are too old & finicky to switch foods on, or take them somewhere else to feed them (they are blind and freak out at change), and as my girl says, they aren’t converting, so they get their food for the week.

Of course, since I’m heading to my mom’s tomorrow, this HAS to be done tonight. Breaking out the sponges for the big wipe-down and I have plenty of wet swiffer at hand. I’m even going to move that giant sectional we have. (Mainly because I retrieved a book my son kicked under it and was properly horrified by what’s underneath. EW.)

I can’t believe it. I am definitely doing a half-assed job at this (stuff in refrigerator is more than I can handle, for example), but it’s more than I’ve ever done on my own (without Mom breathing down my neck). But I gave two bags of chametz to a friend, who will return them at the end of the chag. I threw out old cereal. I put remaining chametz in a cabinet to be sealed shortly (kitniot are staying where they are). I moved the new Passover food (just a few things, really) to its own cabinet.

You know, I’m not even going to TELL Mom that I’m doing this.