Christmas is everywhere, and my son is in love with the holiday. It seems Hanukkah is always in the background.
Last week while we were riding in the car, my 4-year-old son asked, “Are we Christmas people?”This holiday season, my son has been obsessed with Christmas. At the bank, he runs to the Christmas tree grabbing my hand and pulling me along. “Look at the ornaments! See all the presents, Mommy?”And when we walk downtown, he stops to exclaim over every Christmas-y thing in every window display.
“That’s not exactly true,” my father says, “When I was growing up, I loved going to see Santa and sitting on his lap. And we always went to look at the Christmas lights and hear Christmas carols. How could we not celebrate Christmas? It was all around us.” My jaw dropped. I tried to picture my father sitting on Santa’s lap and then going home to a grandmother who only spoke Yiddish and my mind pretty much exploded.
Now I’m raising my own mixed family. Because I married a non-Jewish man, my children are only “one-quarter Jewish,” but I hate quantifying it that way. How can only a certain part of you be anything? No, for both me and my children, we are just a mixture of everything. It’s like the way all the ingredients come together to form a cake. We think of a cake as a cake, not a certain percentage of flour and a certain percentage of chocolate.
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