Ideas that have come in from friends since the book was published:

From Mary Lou Benge in Kentucky,

I am working on my first Hanakkah. What a challenge, especially since my family thinks I am nuts and I live alone. Here is what I amgoing to do.Two of my daughters live in ohio, so here is what I am doing. I am going to copy the prayers from your book. Each day will have special driections for what they are to do. I double if they will light a candle, but the prayers will be right in front of them.

For one of the days I am going to tell theym about the fruit of the spirit. When they open up their gifts they will findI have bought packages of fruit magnets (9 in a package) for $1.00 each. These I will give to my girls. I have bought fruit candies for the guys and kids.

Another day I am writing on being a light to the world. When they open up their gifts, the girls have candles and the guys flashlights. (all $1.00 ea.)

The third day the topic will be "a sweet smelling savor". This is the one gift I had to spend money on. Cologone for each, but this is wha I would have spent for Christmas.

I am using your idea for the coupons. Offering to house sit, dog walk and clean my grand kids bedrooms.

I am so exicted about this. I have asked my daughter and her three kids to come each night. I don't know if they will, but if not I will celebrate by myself. It has been a challenge to come up with ideas that do not cost money. I am not a craft person, but it has been exciting.

A friend of mine is picking me up a Menorah in Chicago this weekend. Hope to see you at the Women Restored! Conference in February!

From Joyce Bowser in Colorado comes this idea:

Joyce and Eugene have been in our home several times in the last year, and over Thanksgiving they stopped by to visit and buy books. Joyce picked up a copy of my Hanukkah book and flipped through the pages. She sheepishly grinned and said, "I want to buy a copy for my daughter, but I have to tell you that I copied the whole thing off the internet! It is sooo much prettier on the net when you have a colored printer!" She ran out to the car and showed me that she had run it all over, taken it to Office Depot and had it all bound with a plastic binder! Then we flipped through the pages and I had to agree---it was beautiful! heee! heee! I told her that I thought it was a wonderful idea and that I hoped more would do it, too! Help yourself to anything that you find on our site, okay? We're here to teach and share HIM with you.

Got an idea that you want to share? Send them to shalom@haydid.org and as time allows we will post them. Who knows! Maybe they will appear in the 1999 edition of Hanukkah: The Light is Messiah!