Getting Ready for Some Kid Friendly Cooking Crafts & Activities for Rosh Hashanah

Celebrations

Every year I write about ways to celebrate with family and connect with your children for Rosh Hashanah. Coming up is a new post on fun ideas, activities, and crafts get children excited about the High Holidays which begin with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. This two day celebration, beginning on Wednesday, September 28th at sundown this year, ushers in the ten day period of self introspection that culminates with Yom Kippur arriving at sundown on Friday, October 7th 

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Some of the best known symbols of this special time of year for the Jewish people include the shofar -- a ram horn which will be blown at Rosh Hashanah religious services worldwide -- and apples and honey to express wishes for a good and sweet new year. The ram's horn will be blown again at the end of the 25 hour Yom Kippur fast.

iPhone Photo by Janis Brett Elspas, MommyBlogExpert.com

Shanah Tovah to my Jewish Readers!

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NEW Bing Deals Launches - 1st Service to Aggregate 200,000 Listings of Deal Sites in One Place

Technology

Today, before learning about the Bing Deals launch, I was going through the usual 500+ emails I receive daily and stopped to think. I never realized before how many notifications from different daily deals sites I receive every day. GroupOn, LivingSocial, Daily Candy, PopSugar Daily, Juice in the City, Amazon, and many others do have great daily deals. The problem is as a busy mom with kids and a career, who has the time to open and read that many deal alerts daily? That's not even to mention the dozens of other emails I get seven days a week from stores and online retailers with special sales, promotions and links to all kinds of coupons.

 Bing Deals Has Arrived, so Storm of Deal Sites is Clearing

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Apparently, misery loves company and I am not alone. In a recent survey, 87 percent of people said they'd increase use of daily deals if they could easily search deals that interested them all in one place. So what a relief it was to learn that -- thanks to Bing Deals which just launched yesterday -- from this day forward you and I don't have to let deals fatigue drive us away from bargains ever again.

Bing Deals -- with its one-stop shopping feature -- provides a central location to browse, find, and buy.  Now it easier than ever for us parents to save more money on all the things our families need or want while also saving a huge amount in time savings.  Bing does the sorting and filtering for you.

Reportedly, more money-saving features will roll out in the weeks ahead. Visit Bing.com/deals or check out the Bing Blog for more information.

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FREE Museum Day Throughout the U.S. on September 24th Offers Parents & Kids Complimentary Tickets

Culture

My hubbie & girls on a visit to a South Dakota museum last summer
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Thanks to Free Museum Day under the auspices of Smithsonian Magazine, participating museums and other educational venues in many states across the country will offer free admission this Saturday, September 24.

General Guidelines:

• Only an official Museum Day ticket is eligible for free entry.
• One ticket per household or family, good for TWO people.
• A ticket will gain entry to only one of the participating museums, excluding parking and special events and exhibits.
• If museum reaches capacity, museum has right to limit the number of guests until space becomes available.

How to Get FREE Tickets 

Locate a venue close to you and obtain
the required official tickets for admission on
Smithsonian Magazine's Free Museum Day website page

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