Kind of more in the same vein, but... today is the last Shabbat Friday for Emily (next Friday is field day). So weird to think that won't be a part of our lives any more. I was excited about sending Emily to Akiva at first largely because I thought the small class and the greater academic challenges would be the best fit for her. I was pleased about it being a Jewish school and about the prospect of learning more about that part of my own heritage, as well as exposing Emily to it, but I didn't count on how much it would come to mean to me personally. I am really, really going to miss observing the holidays with her school -- not that we can't do it on our own, but it was being part of that community in our own way that made the difference.
We will still be in touch with friends from there, and I have fingers crossed that we'll be attending some bar and bat mitzvahs in the years to come, and we have the synagogue around the corner with the rabbis up the street from us so we can still have some involvement, but losing the day-to-day aspect of Emily's life at Akiva is going to leave a big hole.
