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Food and Prop styling Goldie Stern
Photography Felicia Perretti
There’s a bonus project I like to take on in addition to all the regular things I have going on at this indisputably busiest time of year. It’s a project that deserves all the attention in the world, and that is bringing a gift to my kids’ teachers before Rosh Hashanah.
I always feel strongly about expressing appreciation to my kids’ teachers, yet each year I run into the same catch-22. I enjoy pulling these gifts together, but I don’t really have the time to give them the personal touch that I’d like to. I know, I should lower my standards, give anything, it’s the thought that counts, because this time of year is busy enough as it is, but the internal tug-of-war doesn’t change, and some years I can get to it, but other years I don’t.
Because really, it’s underrated how busy this time of year is. We pull off so much in the span of six weeks between the end-of-summer/back-to-school season and the Yamim Tovim. It’s a massive annual undertaking, and it’s happening while we’re simultaneously preparing for the most awesome days on the calendar — the days that would seemingly require the most advance preparation, brain space, and a daily schedule free of extra distractions. And yet, here I am creating “shalach manos” for my kids’ teachers, making a batch of challah for the freezer, and trying to locate composition notebooks with unlined pages (let me know if you have any luck with that one!).
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