Quarantine Craze
This messy activity should only be done outdoors, unless, of course, it is winter break and you have been stuck inside for nearly a year...or two.
What is tie-dye?
We recently opened our 3rd of these since the smoothie stage began.
What is a blender?
The protagonist of S.E. Hinton's most famous novel, marking the first realistic fiction in the YA category.
Who is Ponyboy?
This slang word describes a person's aura or countenance. It is a general sense of their state of being or the energy they are currently giving off.
What is vibe?
The show featuring this theme song that could also describe life from 2020-2022: "It's like you're always stuck in second gear, well, it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year...."
What is Friends?
The name of the dish featuring a vegetable that became a complicated cake during Mommy's extended Ottolenghi phase.
What is Cauliflower Cake?
We switched off weeks with these families to pick up our government box at Bruriah High School in Elizabeth, NJ.
Who are the Diamonds and the Hindins?
Math that uses variables in place of unknown numbers.
What is algebra?
Meaning elicits questions and is shady, fishy, and dubious.
What is sus?
A fan-favorite family movie night film chosen by Daddy but enthusiastically ranked number 1 by our most particular resident critic.
What is Bend It Like Beckham?
A test that doesn't use a pen, pencil, computer, or paper but gives the tester at least 24 hours to worry about the results.
What is a PCR?
We kept wishing this item would be available for order from Costco, but for months in the early part of the pandemic, it remained nearly impossible to find regardless of the ply.
What is toilet paper?
The year this document, outlining the framework of our new government, was ratified.
What is 1787?
The affectionate, yet gross, name used by the youngest household member to refer to her Mother.
What is Poooops?
Unlike the traditional version of this show, all the contestants hail from previous seasons of this amorous competition to find their better half. Sadly, you will have to wait several seasons for another turn at this scintillating viewing experience.
What is The Bachelor in Paradise?
Set in Millburn, New Jersey and part of the South Mountain Reservation, this pretty walk features perfectly placed miniature houses and figures, giving the outdoor space a magical feel touched with a little bit of "dust".
What is the Fairy Trail?
This show reflects a failed attempt at Daddy luring the Zeifs into a new family viewing experience.
What is The Wonder Years?
The Gemara's term for a rabbi in the time of the Gemara?
Who is an Amora?
It has no meaning in its context and can be used whenever, including as an emphasis for a point. This feminine article of clothing made its non sequitured way into conversation.
What is skirt?
Her first true love for this male character devolved into her first true act of demoralized deception early on in this mother daughter series.
Who is Dean?
Based on the current CDC recommendation for quarantining, if one tests positive on a Thursday, what is the earliest day that one can test out of quarantine?
What is Tuesday?
We've switched concentrations and quadrupled our consumption of this product.
What is milk?
The grammatically correct conjugation of the verb want in past tense Hebrew for the pronoun I.
What is rasziti?
A royal reference and oft-repeated positive affirmation meaning nothing more than emphatic agreement.
What is Yaaaas, Queen?
This actor has starred in several Zeif Movie Night features and there are surely more in his oeuvre, the total body of his artistic work, for us to experience in future evenings-of-Daddy-death-stares to come.
Who is Tom Hanks?