I don't know how it was for you, but for me this Purim actually turned out to be one of the best Purim's I remember in, at least, the past few years.
I am not a big fan of Purim - the costumes, griminess, constantly feeling like I need a shower, and some other things.
But this Purim was pretty good. The rain was fun, mishloach manot was low key, between parties and seudahs on Sunday and Monday I drank probably less than one cup of wine altogether, we did not paint the kids faces, and more.
Purim was far nicer this year than I remember it in recent years (maybe it is because I dont remember much of it from previous years because of too much wine...)...
Good for you! We also felt it was a much better Purim with less alcohol. 2 families together equalling 7 bochurim; 2 pre-teen boys; 2 fathers; 2 grandfathers and assorted women and girls, yet only 2 bottles of wine; 1/2 bottle choc liquer and 4 bottles of beer drunk. Everyone had a great time and could go to daven maariv like mentchen
ReplyDeleteThanks, your mother and I were with you in Israel last year! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much more this year.
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