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Post by lee058 on Jun 10, 2024 9:05:22 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Frieda (hopefully)?
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by lee058 on Jun 10, 2024 9:15:01 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.
Today's topic: Birthdays of younger people.
Who do you think of, and how does this make you feel?
For me, I think of DS, because today is his 31st birthday! How does this make me feel? Older, but happy we are both alive, love each other, and --- thank God --- doing well. I also think of something I say to him. Me to him: I'll love you until you're a million years old, and I'm a million and 35! (I was 35 when he was born.) He says the same thing, with the appropriate dates, to me. He is a great son!!
Later, we are going to pick up a cake I ordered from Whole Foods. They make fabulous cakes. I told DS that if he wants any books or anything from Amazon, to just tell his dad and he would order it.
DH is coming home early today, and plans to grill dinner (as requested by DS). We're going to have burgers, sausages, and corn.
As for how I feel about younger people getting older, it can be a shock sometimes to hear what year they were born. The numbers seem so unbelievable.
I am so grateful and happy to be DS's mom!!
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by gazelle18 on Jun 10, 2024 9:23:42 GMT -5
My older child is 43, and I find this unsettling, to say the least!
On the other hand, I have a seven week old grandson. When my son and daughter in law told us she was pregnant (she is 38) , I had mixed feelings. She has never had a child (my son has kids from former marriage), and she REALLY wanted a baby. I worried a bit because I always worry about my son’s emotional state. Her pregnancy and labor were uneventful, and the baby boy is adorable and healthy. I went from concerned to gaga-in-love over the baby overnight!
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Post by louise on Jun 10, 2024 9:24:34 GMT -5
I know it's surprising that people born in this century are grownups already! I enjoy watching my great niece as she grows up. She turned 16 during her semester in London - she's so different than she was just Thanksgiving. It's exciting. I am sometimes stunned at synagogue when these little bar mitzvah boys come back a few years later as men - I sometimes wouldn't even recognize them if they had not been with their parents. Again, it's exciting.
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Post by hollygail on Jun 10, 2024 10:05:29 GMT -5
Me too. I watch my own students in 6th grade, then 7th grade, and then as young teenagers and then even older teenagers. They go away to college and come back to visit their parents and come to services and they always come over to say hello to me (and often with big hugs). And sometimes they grow up, get married and start having their own kids. When I moved to San Diego County in 1989, the very first friend I made was a woman (R) whose older daughter (S) was studying for her bat mitzvah. I helped S put together a siddur (the congregation was mostly a Friday night congregation) for her bat mitzvah. When S was graduating from high school, I helped her do her make-up (from another of my many previous lines of work) and bought her a graduation gift (portable Shabbat candle holders, which she wound up using the way many college students do, to hold candles whenever the need arose, not specifically for lighting on Friday nights). A couple of years later, my cousin threw a birthday party for her mother (my mother's older sister) in the San Francisco Bay Area (and S was at Berkeley). I stayed at S's apartment the weekend of Aunt's party. And now S's daughter L is my bat mitzvah student!
I revel in this stuff!
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Post by brgmsn on Jun 10, 2024 12:42:43 GMT -5
My oldest daughter is 42, my middle is 41, and my son is 38. My oldest granddaughter will be 11, grandson is 9, and DS and DDIL just had a baby not 3 weeks ago. It's nuts.
My aunt who will be 90 asked me how I felt having middle aged children. I told her I wouldn't know, since I'm still middle aged!!
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Post by peachymom1 on Jun 10, 2024 15:19:02 GMT -5
It kind of boggles the mind! I don't think that much about my own age, but I do think about my kids and what they're doing at their various ages. Our bffs' DD just turned 40 last week, and that was a mind-blower for them (and us). Her kids are 4 and 2, and I am very glad I wasn't running after toddlers when I was 40. She and her husband are much better off financially than we were, though, so there's that. I was 26 when DD was born and 28 when my sons were born. I will be 62 next month, and that sounds so strange to me.
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