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Pater: Celebrating ten years!!!
Posted by Pater , Saturday, August 24, 2019 10:00 PM
Ten years ago today, we started this blog as a way for you, our Avocado Juniors, to know why we did what we did when we did. In that time, we have published 180 posts which have been viewed 24,000 times by people in Canada, America, Israel, Europe and surprisingly enough, Japan and South Korea, all of which has raised revenue of $64 towards the Hass Avocado Endowment Fund (would it have killed any of you 24,000 viewers to click on the ads just once???).
Over the last ten years, our family has seen the births of 4 amazing Avocado Juniors; celebrated 24 Avocado Junior birthday parties officially (unofficially the number is probably closer to 50; AJ2, J'accuse!); thought up 10 different Purim costume themes; rejected 43 bad Purim costume themes; experienced 3 snips at ages 8 days and 3 years (different parts of the body, all male, we promise); sadly lost 2 much loved and much missed grandfathers; traveled to numerous countries, quite often without throwing up mid-route; and enjoyed a mixture of laughter, tears, harmony, diapers, fights, homework, chaos, and sheer, unadulterated love.
But in an age of show not tell, pictures not words, simplicity not complexity, how to express all that we've done and all the changes over ten years? Pater has really struggled with this and since Mater is too busy planning for her upcoming trip with AJ1 to New York (see next month's blogpost), the task fell on his narrow shoulders. What do all the Avocado Juniors have in common over a multi-year period, that pictorially ties them together and can be used to express a Hollywood-style collage of time? We have lots of repeating themes but not stretching over ten years. And then bingo, Pater got it. True, the answer says as much about the strange inner workings of Pater's mind, as it does about the growth of our family, but here goes:
Traditionally, ten year anniversaries are celebrated with Tin. Tin makes up 12% of bronze and is used to strengthen its resistance to corrosion. Our favourite place in the world is Toronto Zoo, which in a busy world of school, work, hockey lessons, karate classes and so many disparate activities, some would say (mainly Pater) strengthens our familial bonds, preventing us from corroding as a nuclear unit. Don't worry if it's not making sense yet. Nearly there! So how better to describe in pictures the last 10 years than through our interactions with the famous bronze statues in Toronto Zoo...
