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notinjersey July 18, 2024

Israel Trip Part 4 – Zachary’s Birthday

In 2020, Zachary turned 13. Our planning for his bar mitzvah was interrupted by Covid. He did have a small service and a Zoom get together, but no family could come to celebrate with him. We had also hoped to take a family trip to Israel in his honor, which did not happen. So when we realized he’d be celebrating his 17th birthday during our trip, we came up with a plan. His English birthday fell on the Hebrew 1st day of the month, which comes with a special prayer service and Torah reading, which Zachary happened to already know how to read. So we planned that whoever could join us at the Western Wall would do so! No one came to Israel specifically to join us, but a lot of our family happened to already be there, either because they live there or were visiting at the same time, so it worked out very nicely.

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notinjersey July 17, 2024

Wednesday Hodgepodge 7/17

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today I’m joining in for Wednesday Hodgepodge with Joyce.

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notinjersey July 16, 2024

Mid Year Reading Update

Who else can’t believe that half the year has passed? Well, being that it’s the middle of the year, I thought I’d share a mid year reading update. Between the beginning of January January and the end of June, I read 140 books.

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notinjersey July 15, 2024

Signs Your Roof is in Need of Repair

Of the most important components of your home is your roof. Without it, you’d get very wet very quickly, and it protects you from the elements and it protects your belongings from being stolen. A…

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notinjersey July 15, 2024

What I Accomplished so far in July

For most awhile now, I’ve had blog posts to share on the first two Mondays of each month thanks to link ups I take part in, but when it comes to the rest of the month, I feel at a loss. I know a lot of people share weekend wrap ups on Mondays, but my weekends are honestly not that exciting! Plus, I like to blog ahead and sharing a weekend would mean having to work on a post on Sunday night. Another idea I had was to move my occasional Tuesday book posts to Mondays. Thoughts on any of this? Let me know. Anyway, a post idea I had is to share the things I’ve accomplished over the past two weeks and today I’m going to share what I have accomplished so far in July.

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