4th Night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve

HAPPY HANUKKAH and

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Debbi
Proud Parent of a U.S. Marine and U.S. Soldier
©2006 - 2008 DubiQuilts

3rd Night of Hanukkah

On the third night three candles were lit. I am not at home tonight so my son lit the candles. This is a photo from last year.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
Proud Parent of a U.S. Marine and U.S. Soldier
©2006 - 2008 DubiQuilts

2nd Night Of Hanukkah

On the second night two candles were lit even if it was way past sundown and the family was not home.



Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
Proud Parent of a U.S. Marine and U.S. Soldier
©2006 - 2008 DubiQuilts

1st Night of Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah

From Dubiquilts and Family to

You and Your Family!

The Hebrew calendar states an eight-day Jewish holiday beginning on the 25th day of Kislev, is an astounding festive called Hanukkah, and is also termed as the Jewish Festival of Lights. This holiday may fall anytime between late November and late December. This festive season is celebrated due to the upcoming of the Second Temple at the time of the Maccabee insurgence. Thousands of candles illuminate the Jewish homes during festival.The word Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival Of Lights is deciphered from the word dedication. After the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem took place. The internal flame in the Temple was lit for one full day. According to Talmud, the flame phenomenally lasted for eight days; hence the festival of eating and playing games came into being one of the longest festivals in the world lasting over an entire week. The Jews celebrated these eight days with downright gratification. After the second temple was re-dedicated Judah and his brothers agreed to commemorate this eight days every year. The deuterocanonical books of the Maccabees mentioned the festival of Jewish Festival Of Lights with great honor and respect. The entire Israel parishioners have been celebrating these eight days since a long time. Joyous times are shared between friends and family. Execution and torture was also linked to the Jewish Festival Of Lights according to an old Talmudic Story. Various rituals take place during this festival. Some rituals are common for all and some within the family. These rituals are performed throughout the eight days. Prayers are personalized and meals are extended. Work hours become less as they have to return home under the sunlight. Schools are closed for the whole period despite of no attachment to the religion. Jewish Festival Of Lights is also known as the Chanukah. Hundreds of songs are linked with this festival. One of such songs is dridel, dridel, dridel, sung in English. Another song called Chanukah, Oh Chanukah is sung in harmony in every home. It is now considered a national holiday. Songs are often interpreted in English to commemorate the verses, such as the Kad Katan is meant to be A Small Jug and Mi Yimalel as Who Can Retell.Celebratory food is enjoyed in all households throughout the eight days of Jewish Festival Of Lights . Among the Ashkenazi families, the Surfganjyot with jelly potato pancakes are traditionally very famous. Food is either baked or fried in olive oil. The significance of olive oil goes back to the eternal flames that lasted for eight days in the temple. Fruits-filled doughnuts, fired in olive oil, is one of the main courses along with Kosher foods.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
Proud Parent of a U.S. Marine and U.S. Soldier
©2006 - 2008 DubiQuilts

TGIF - I Love Fridays - 12/14/2007

I can not believe the year is almost over. Where did the time go? What did I do with the time? Did I use the time wisely? Did I waste the time? How many of you are asking the same questions? I am going to spend some time this weekend reading my blog posting from the past year to see what I did or did not accomplish. The main reason why I started my blog is to keep a record of my life. I am thinking of printing my blog in a book format for safe keeping.

The Hanukkah decorations and Menorahs have been put away for another year. The Menorahs are on display on the hutch in the living room and the decorations fit into one box and will be returned to the shelf in the garage.

Now it is time to decorate the inside of the house for Christmas. It will take all weekend to get the boxes off the shelf in the garage. I am not sure how many boxes there are but just the indoor decorations is about 5 boxes and the decorations/ornaments for the tree is about 8. We will be getting a fresh tree this weekend. I will decorate the inside of the house, my husband and #2 son will decorate the tree and put up the trains. The trains are another 6 boxes. I have a Dickens Village and other ceramic houses in 5 more boxes. HUM, what am I forgetting and where are the boxes?

I am so glad Hubby put the lights up a few weeks ago and decorated the outside of the house. We still have more decorations but are going to keep it simple this year. We did not get the bad storms but the roof has snow on it, the gutters are frozen over and the icicles are big.

The two soldiers (only one in photo) by the front door are JB's. He got these many years ago and wrote his name on the top of the hat to make sure his brother does not stake a claim on them.

If you are asking yourself Hanukkah and Christmas decorations??? We celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, because we are merged faith family. We share each others holidays all year and for us it works. I am finding there are many families who are sharing their holidays so life is not so stressful. The holidays by themselves can be so stressful so sharing is good.

Have A Great Weekend!

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

Eighth Night of Hanukkah

May the miracle of the eight nights of Hanukkah shine bright in your home for the whole year.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

On the Seventh Night of Hanukkah

With all the candles lit, it sure does shine bright. This is JB's train Menorah.

Some of the Hanukkah decorations around the house.

Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate.
Have a great evening everyone.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

On the Sixth Night was Gymnastics and Ice

Happy sixth night of Hanukkah!
UIC Men and Women Mixed Pairs Gymnastics Meet.
Ice is everywhere in Chicagoland. This is from my flower garden. I did not cut the grasses down for the winter.
Just seconds before taking this photo another Icicle fell from the gutter.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

On the Fifth Night of Hanukkah

Tonight is the family Hanukkah get together. I am staying home with #2 son JB because he has a migraine. He came home early from NJROTC PT practice and has been sleeping for 7 hours. When the migraine first started JB took medicine but it did not help. Back in August JB was in the hospital because of a bad migraine. He had scans of his head and everything was OK. This is the first migraine and we were hoping the medicine would be a miracle pill and lessen the pain. I hate seeing my son in pain and wished the medicine did work.

I lit the menorah for the fifth night of Hanukkah and said a prayer for my son.

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Hanukkah!!!

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

On the Fourth Night of Hanukkah

Tonight is the fourth Night of Hanukkah and the beginning of Shabbos. Can you see Summer peeking outside to see me? She is such a sweet and loving dog.


Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

The Third Candle Has Been Lit for Hanukkah

The miracle of the third night.
Looking down my street to the south. You can not see to the end of the block in the photo but most all of the houses have lights and decorations.
The front of our house. This year we are keeping it simple.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

2nd Night Of Hanukkah

Tonight we did not light the Menorah because son #2 and I were at NJROTC. The electric Menorah in the front window was lit by my husband.

Here are some of the Menorah I have that are mine, my grandparents, and my parents. All of the table runners I have made over the years. The third photo shows the table runner I made this year.

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

First Night of Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah to my family and friends

Debbi
dubiquilts@dubiquilts.com (email)
©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

Past Comments and More Decorations

Thank-you everyone who has left comments on my blog. I love hearing from you. If you have left a question for me I am going to try and answer you in this posting. If I did not answer you please let me know.

Kristin - I am so glad the photo of your pincushion and goodies is posted on flickr.

Beth - Military families are very special and thank-you for your prayers.

Jenclair-Asked for a photo of the bracket my family wears in memory of my Mom. The bracket is rubber and on one side has my moms name and the other side as has the words Joyful Loving Wise. I used a sharpie to color the words in because it has faded. We also had a bronze marker made with these words in additional to the head stone for her grave.


Yesterday was a family holiday party and we all had a great time.

Here is a wall quilt I made 3 years ago. Would you believe this is my first paper pieced project.

This is a wall quilt I made for my husband 3 years ago. This is my second paper pieced quilt. Most of the fabrics are from my first batch of hand dyed fabric.

This is my ceramic village that started 20 years ago with just 1 building. The photo if from the beginning of year. I am not going to set this up this year.This is the den with my sons nut crackers. The photo is from last year.I just love this Santa. Evey year I find a new place for him. This photo is from last year.

Have A Great Day!

Debbi