Reply To: Going off the Derech

the hock, Syag Lchochma, and Imma613-thank-you for all your well wishes. The simcha went well, B’H. It started out a little rough during picture time. My husband was desperately hoping my son would change his clothes from jeans, colored shirt and earring, to something a little more mekubad. But, it didn’t go. The funny thing is, bc of my son’s ‘look’, it added a bit of humor to the pictures, instead of all the serious faces we usually have, there was joking, and a more relaxed atmosphere to the pictures. Hope it was captured. It really was a lot of fun, and I had a great time. My friends were quite supportive, and I discovered a few more moms like me. We all agreed that there is an epidemic of kids going OTD, and that it is almost becoming ‘popular’ to ‘join the crowd’!!. So sad.

B’H, my son stayed the whole time! I was worried that he wouldn’t, but he brought one of his friends, and that was the magic ingredient. My husband and I were worried beforehand that we wouldn’t be able to be happy for the simcha, and we had to give eachother pep talks all morning (really, all month). But B’H, once the music started, everything started to melt away. Wish you were all there…….