Chanukah is a very minor holiday in the Judiasm. Many comparison's are made between Christmas and Chanukah as if Chanuka is the Jewish Christmas, but this is really not so. Most Jews do not make a big deal about the holiday with little decorating, no huge traditional meal, no huge mounds of gifts.
My family celebrates by lighting our Chanuah Menorah each night for eight nights and my children receive a gift for each of those eight nights. Our gifts are generally small. Our oldest realizes that not all gift can be huge, but our youngest would like to see something special every night. He thought his new toothbrush was great (!) until he realized it was the sole gift for the evening. Some of our gifts have been hits, while other misses. We invited friends and family over for our annual Chanukah Party. "Party" may be a bit of a stretch. Don and Reese fried latkes (potato pancakes) for us all to enjoy. Instead of exchanging gifts, we collected canned goods to be donated to a local food bank.
Mom and dad pitched in to help make the latkes. Lots of work is involved in frying ten pounds of potatoes! It was nice to share the evening with friends and family.
Dinner was great, but I ate too much and am dangerous with all the yummy left overs in the house!
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