1 – She hasn’t written back. I suspect she’ll take it to her pastor to be sure about what I said. She struck me as that type. Which is good – maybe he’ll think a bit on it, too.

2 – My kids are very into Elul. We blow the shofar every night, pull a chain off our paper countdowns, and we’ve been watching Rosh Ha’Shana videos every day. As for the cleaning, they run errands for me as I work off and on throughout the day. I spread the tasks so everyone has a job – like today I did our bedroom. I found a NERF gun under the bed, a dirty boy shirt behind the chair, and there was two stacks of magazines of Brian’s. So I had the older two kids (Lydia & Isaac) take the stacks downstairs to his ‘work room’, Ethan took the shirt to the hamper, and Aaron took the NERF gun to their room. Then they can go back to their thing until I accumulate another four tasks. Most of it is just running, so I don’t have to (and can do the tougher stuff, like washing walls or dusting furniture).

But I require them to help regularly, anyhow. Everyday they do two five-minute toy scrambles (of the main rooms of the house), they also have critter tending and table setting at ALL meals, and whenever I do clothes folding, they make trips to put everything away for me. And once a week they have to go in and tidy their rooms somewhat. So they participate.

3 – I put a lot more family stuff on FB than I do here. What we’re doing that day (like yesterday was first day of dance for four of five kids, so I recounted the experience there), or funny things the kids say, or links I like/are useful. It’s different stuff from what I put here. Not so spiritual, although I do link to each post as they go public, and sometimes we do talk about topics not mentioned here. :spin:

I suspect if/when the rapture does happen, or if I get sick/die, my FB will be where the information exchange happens, though. That’s where people seem to connect and discuss. Which is why I keep trying to get my friends here to friend me at Facebook (hint, hint, V!!) You’ll want it when/if something happens to me. :rofl:

A) The link to my FB site is on this page – just scroll down anna.xanga.com and on the left will be the link. :kewl:

B) What happened with the ‘letter lady’ was that I found a DVD rack on Craigslist and drove WAY northeast to go and get it. She has barns and barns full of stuff she gets at estate sales and garage/yard sales, and she has a permanent flea market in her yard. We were browsing the stuff while we were there, and I saw a copy of Ussher’s “Annals of the World” – leather bound, in mint condition, in a case! – for five dollars, and I got SOOOO excited. Her husband (who was walking around with us, trying to talk us into buying things) couldn’t figure out what the deal was with this book, so I explained that Ussher is the guy who took the geneologies of the Bible and put together a timeline of Scripture… and apparently he did it for ALL time, all things, too!

When I mentioned the Bible she came over and said, “Oh, you’re a Christian?” and I told her no, we’re Messianic Jews. Immediately her eyes widened, she put her hands on her hips and demanded, “When was Jesus really born?! Tell me the truth! I know it’s not Christmas, and I hate that I don’t know!” So I told her Sukkot, and she got that ‘WTH?!?’ look, and I had to try to explain to her about the feasts… which of course was a LOT of information, so she asked me to write it down for her and send it to her. That’s how that came about.