2-Omer, No "Guests?"

My friend and I emailed about the Passover seder. Although we both like having a full house with lots of guests, this year, somehow neither of us had any outside guests. It felt strange. Sometimes the talk among Jews is:

"How many people are you having for the seder?"

For years we had all the kids and lots of guests, and then things changed. Suddenly, not all the kids could come, and it got harder to find guests. This year we realized that the only way to spend the seder with at least some of our kids was for us to go to them, and that's what we did.

Honestly, it was great. My friend emailed that they really enjoyed making the seder truly meaningful for their young son. I replied:

Sometimes we get too bogged down trying to make others feel welcome and we forget our own kids.

It doesn't matter how old your children are. They're still our kids. And our kids can be our guests, even if we're visiting them.