I've finally done it!

This is it. My attempt at a near daily blog about the family. I intend to use this as a news of the Nashville Bergmans. Where it goes from there I can't say, but it should be interesting!

Recent happenings...

This past weekend Rabbi Saul held his annual pre-Selichot concert at the shul. For the second year I hurriedly setup and ran sound for the event and, this year, performed two songs accompanying my friend Greg Jones. Despite the small window to setup between the end of Shabbat and the start of the concert everything went off with nary a hitch. The concert didn't begin until 9pm and the Selichot service began at midnight. Lilly was with me and stayed up the entire time. We arrived home around 1am after Greg and Ben helped me load just about every inch of the Bumblebee (that would be our little yellow car. ;) ) with sound equipment! Eek!

Which is a decent segue to our next thought...

Lilly, Denise and I never read any of the Harry Potter books until recently. Thanks to the Pacas (as Lilly, just about age 2, dubbed grandpa and grandma Bergman) we have the entire set. As we've seen all the movies Denise & Lilly went through several of the early books at bedtime but now we're on a Harry Potter feast! We've moved to The Half Blood Prince to continue the story while at the same time Lil and I have been listening to the first three audio books on our commute to school (40 minutes from the house) and any other time we're in the car together. Have to love the mp3/CD-ROM capability of the car stereo. We have the first three on one disc! The other four are larger files and required several discs. After we finish reading The Half Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows we'll listen to them in the car as well.

Most of this summer Lilly was at her grandparents' (Malcolm & Maria's) home with cousin Katelyn. They're a year and a half apart and enjoy each other's company immensely. It was a great summer but we're happy to have Lil back home.

I know this is weird for many of our friends up north, but Lilly's school is already a month in. They begin early down south and Lilly's school starts earlier, in part due to days off for jewish holidays both minor and major. This Thursday and Friday are, of course, Rosh Hoshana, the jewish new year, and we'll all be off for services.

I guess I'm trying to post too much at once so I'm calling it quits for now. I hope all of you enjoy updates on our life here in Nashville and find this an easy way to catch up, when long phone calls aren't convenient.