met with the Rabbi today to discuss my 16 page manfesto… He liked it — complimented me on my writing skills (well, I do write for a living… sort of…).  He had a few questions and comments and then basically said — we’re done — when do you want to do the mikveh… The date is set for April 18th — with the public ceremony on the 19th. This works out well because we had invited everyone in town for Passover anyway and becase it was last year that I really got motivated to do whatever I needed to do to finish converting (I started the process in 2004- but never found the right combination of a temple my husband liked and a Rabbi I liked — and we also moved cross country…)

Specifically, last year at Passover.  Our daughter was 3 — and for the first time the seder wasn’t so much about racing through the haggadah to get to the gefilte fish — but more about tell S the story.  It hit me at that time that Jame and I were telling Suzanne her story like Jame had learned from his parents and they from theirs going back thousands of years.  I really wanted to be a part of that.  Little did I know, that I would complete my conversion in time so that this Passover,  I will be telling my daughter our story …. very cool…