Purim is my daughter’s favorite holiday.  What is there for a 4 year old girly girl not to like?.  She gets to wear her princess dress to a carnival with games, cotton candy and popcorn, boo and cheer loudly with her friends and come home and make hamentaschen… 

But… when you asked her what she was dressing as — her answer this year was both Cinderella *and* Esther.  Last year, interestingly, she was Vashti, I’m not really sure why…   Anyway,  Cinderella and Esther have some definite similaries in that they are both rags to princess stories.  I think Cinderella gets the better prince in the end (although we don’t *know* that for sure…)  but Esther gets to be a heroine in a way that Cinderella never could be