We never got used to Egypt.

A guy from India approached my husband in the hotel lobby to ask if he’s Jewish and then excitedly proclaimed that he’d never met a Jew before and proceeded to tell my husband some things about himself and ask absolutely nothing about my husband/Jews. Congrats on losing the Be Normal About Jews Challenge sir.

“If you haven’t gotten around to buying your high holiday tickets go do that now” on the 1st day of Elul is actually hilarious, not because it’s not a reasonable thing to say for people who attend shuls that do things on NORMAL TIMELINES, but because our shul has not even sent out the link to the able to do that and probably won’t do so for at least a couple more weeks. Because why would people do things ahead of time.

I am so secondhand stressed by people who don’t read things and are just. Going through life not knowing what’s going on! Like the mother in 6yo’s class who is constantly asking questions about the school calendar even though not only was it sent to her by the school in 2 different places, but also I sent it to the class chat and pinned it to the top. She didn’t know until just now that tomorrow is the last day of camp. How are you planning your life like this!!! Getting the pre-school-year email with the calendar and the supply list and all the other info is the best feeling. I read it immediately and put all the things in my work calendar and it makes me feel so settled and prepared. How do you live like that!!!! Just having no idea what’s going on all the time and not even having the wherewithal to find information yourself without relying on someone else to dig it up for you!!!

4yo’s school sent a welcome booklet that was clearly made with AI. It’s apparent that a real photo of the classroom was fed into said AI in the process. In the background there is a set of what SHOULD be portraits of the Chabad rebbeim hanging on the wall. But the AI apparently thought about what would be hanging on a preschool classroom wall and came to the conclusion that it would be children. So the portraits are, in the end, pictures of children in the style of specific familiar rebbe portraits 😐

People talk about the way sheitel prices (and especially the upper end of sheitel prices) have inflated, but no one is talking about the length. I have seen 2 different sheitel companies recently post about their “short” sheitels and they are literally talking about sheitels the length of my long sheitels.

4yo is very upset about something and just approached me and said, “Mommy! I would like to look at some pictures that will make me feel better.”

6yo made a pretend turtle and named it after a real turtle that he met at a museum this week. But of course because he is an Ashkenazi child, when I said something about him naming his pretend turtle after the real one, he felt the need to clarify that the real turtle did not die.

Some of you have never spoken openly to anyone who has experienced any type of infertility or pregnancy loss and it shows. Real life is not an abstinence-only sex ed class where you have sex 1 time and voila, baby.