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Update: Hebrew name & naming ceremony
Gwendolyn's naming ceremony was yesterday, and went beautifully, so I
thought I'd post a quick update. My sister and her dh showed up Friday night, and since we still hadn't finalized a name, they helped us out. We finally settled on Ganit B'rina. I especially liked how B'rina matched both first letter and meaning for Beatrice - Beatrice means Bringer of Joy, and B'rina is With joy. We spent Saturday morning getting everything ready. The only thing we cooked was a noodle kugel (tag team with my sister) but we had to finish getting the houseready and setting out all of the food. (bagels & lox, cheese & crackers, veggies & dip, drinks, etc). We weren't sure exactly how many to expect since there were a few maybes, but we knew it would be 25-35 people. As it turned out, it was 36! The ceremony itself went beautifully. Dh & I did it (I mainly led it), with a ceremony we based on a couple of ceremonies in The New Jewish Baby Book. The grandparents all did short readings, and my sister introduced her name. (I figured it was appropriate since she helped us decide!) We got a lot of compliments on the ceremony. My mom really liked having it at our house because it was so much more personal than if it was just tucked into a regular service. DD was a perfect angel during her ceremony, since she was asleep and I was holding her. g Ds got restless, so I held him for part of it. (He was feeling a bit neglected since we had been so busy getting things ready.) It was wonderful to see my extended family, and my garden even did me a favor and my blue flax opened up! (Something was blooming besides dandelions - yay!) We did have a bit of excitement - ds (2.75) was playing with my cousin's 13 yr old, and accidentally hit him with a block on the head, really hard. Fortunately, I still had a couple of the ice packs from the hospital, so he got to use one of them. Other than that, and ds sweet-talking people into letting him have soda, it went very well! Irene mom to Thomas Alexander (Tivon Alexander) 7/01 & Gwendolyn Beatrice (Ganit B'rina) 4/8/04 |
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Update: Hebrew name & naming ceremony
"Irene" wrote in message om... Gwendolyn's naming ceremony was yesterday, and went beautifully, so I thought I'd post a quick update. My sister and her dh showed up Friday night, and since we still hadn't finalized a name, they helped us out. We finally settled on Ganit B'rina. I especially liked how B'rina matched both first letter and meaning for Beatrice - Beatrice means Bringer of Joy, and B'rina is With joy. That's pretty neat. Glad it all went well (except the block incident - lol). We spent Saturday morning getting everything ready. The only thing we cooked was a noodle kugel (tag team with my sister) but we had to finish getting the houseready and setting out all of the food. (bagels & lox, cheese & crackers, veggies & dip, drinks, etc). We weren't sure exactly how many to expect since there were a few maybes, but we knew it would be 25-35 people. As it turned out, it was 36! The ceremony itself went beautifully. Dh & I did it (I mainly led it), with a ceremony we based on a couple of ceremonies in The New Jewish Baby Book. The grandparents all did short readings, and my sister introduced her name. (I figured it was appropriate since she helped us decide!) We got a lot of compliments on the ceremony. My mom really liked having it at our house because it was so much more personal than if it was just tucked into a regular service. DD was a perfect angel during her ceremony, since she was asleep and I was holding her. g Ds got restless, so I held him for part of it. (He was feeling a bit neglected since we had been so busy getting things ready.) It was wonderful to see my extended family, and my garden even did me a favor and my blue flax opened up! (Something was blooming besides dandelions - yay!) We did have a bit of excitement - ds (2.75) was playing with my cousin's 13 yr old, and accidentally hit him with a block on the head, really hard. Fortunately, I still had a couple of the ice packs from the hospital, so he got to use one of them. Other than that, and ds sweet-talking people into letting him have soda, it went very well! Irene mom to Thomas Alexander (Tivon Alexander) 7/01 & Gwendolyn Beatrice (Ganit B'rina) 4/8/04 |
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Update: Hebrew name & naming ceremony
"Sophie" wrote in message ...
"Irene" wrote in message om... Gwendolyn's naming ceremony was yesterday, and went beautifully, so I thought I'd post a quick update. My sister and her dh showed up Friday night, and since we still hadn't finalized a name, they helped us out. We finally settled on Ganit B'rina. I especially liked how B'rina matched both first letter and meaning for Beatrice - Beatrice means Bringer of Joy, and B'rina is With joy. That's pretty neat. Glad it all went well (except the block incident - lol). Thanks! Irene We spent Saturday morning getting everything ready. The only thing we cooked was a noodle kugel (tag team with my sister) but we had to finish getting the houseready and setting out all of the food. (bagels & lox, cheese & crackers, veggies & dip, drinks, etc). We weren't sure exactly how many to expect since there were a few maybes, but we knew it would be 25-35 people. As it turned out, it was 36! The ceremony itself went beautifully. Dh & I did it (I mainly led it), with a ceremony we based on a couple of ceremonies in The New Jewish Baby Book. The grandparents all did short readings, and my sister introduced her name. (I figured it was appropriate since she helped us decide!) We got a lot of compliments on the ceremony. My mom really liked having it at our house because it was so much more personal than if it was just tucked into a regular service. DD was a perfect angel during her ceremony, since she was asleep and I was holding her. g Ds got restless, so I held him for part of it. (He was feeling a bit neglected since we had been so busy getting things ready.) It was wonderful to see my extended family, and my garden even did me a favor and my blue flax opened up! (Something was blooming besides dandelions - yay!) We did have a bit of excitement - ds (2.75) was playing with my cousin's 13 yr old, and accidentally hit him with a block on the head, really hard. Fortunately, I still had a couple of the ice packs from the hospital, so he got to use one of them. Other than that, and ds sweet-talking people into letting him have soda, it went very well! Irene mom to Thomas Alexander (Tivon Alexander) 7/01 & Gwendolyn Beatrice (Ganit B'rina) 4/8/04 |
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