Page 54 of Breakout Year

The evening after Rosh Hashanah

Eitan: Shanah tova!!!

Akiva: Thank you, you too.

Eitan: Remember when we ate apples and honey in your backyard and you said I was going to be a great real boyfriend? I wish I was yours

Eitan: Hope it’s a sweet new year!! [apple emoji] [honey emoji]

Yom Kippur break fast

Eitan: Did you have an easy fast?

Akiva: Yes, and now Rachel is making me eat an entire chicken.

Eitan: Tell Rachel she’s right and I support her.

Akiva: I have told her neither, and yet she persists.

Eitan: Someone should tell you to take care of yourself

Eitan: even if it’s not me

The night before Sukkot

Akiva: We are building a sukkah, and the children have decorated me.

[picture of Akiva covered in paper chains and glitter]

Eitan: You make a great hut.

Akiva: Many people have said so.

Akiva: Mark isn’t going to let me in the house with glitter on me. I think I have to hose down in the driveway.

Eitan: send pictures

Eitan: I like you sparkly

Eitan: I like you any way, really

Eitan: Sensible. I disapprove.

The night after Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah

Eitan: OK, I googled Shemini Atzeret and I still don’t know what it is. We never celebrated that one.

Akiva: That’s the secret. No one knows.

Eitan: Did you have a good secret holiday?

Akiva: I did. We had a party at synagogue.

Eitan: Wish I had been there. I’m on end-of-season rest. If I don’t start conditioning again, I’m gonna start eating the walls.

Akiva: wish you’d been there too

Akiva: I wish you were here right now

Akiva: wallboard isn’t kosher