Professor Sharon

Again, four days have flown by.  All of them filled with the many tasks of preparing, enjoying and cleaning up after a Sedar meal for twenty!  It’s a solid three day event every year – this year marked at least the 37th time or so of our marriage.  We began formally inviting important friends when our second child was under one years of age.  We had had a Sedar meal for a couple of years before that, but only we and perhaps my in-laws were at the table at most.

It began, I believe in retrospect, as a way to form traditions, and create family for us.  We lived at least two hours from all sides of the family.  A family with both Jews and Christians who weren’t much of a mind to see any part of our marriage our way.  But it was the 70s and we were beginning to understand that family meant what you wanted it to.  Many young people today almost take this concept for granted; I do believe that the 60s/70s young people were vital to creating this cultural belief.

At any rate, Sedar is a three day event here at my home – one day to set it all up, a day and a half to cook, an evening to enjoy, and a day to clean up! Today I went off to work taking in the fact that I didn’t think much at all about work or the tasks needing completion.  That’s okay – happens every year!  I’ll catch up tomorrow!

And, then I reminded myself that although Sedar may take three days next year; I believe I won’t have to keep in the back of my mind the worry that I have many work related tasks to do after the cooking and clean up!