by Mayim Bialik on October 20, 2014 at 11:54 AM PDT
Reposted from Kveller.com
Chag Sameach to all of you who have celebrated the fall harvest festival of Sukkot and Simchat Torah—now we are all done with holidays for the fall!
I wanted to give you my “Top 3 Things Happening Now” regarding Sukkot, autumn, and what’s new in “The Big Bang Theory” world I live in.
DISCLAIMER: I WILL NOT SPOIL ANYTHING ABOUT “THE BIG BANG THEORY” HERE. DON’T START POSTING ALL OVER THE WEB THAT MAYIM IS A SPOILER. BECAUSE I’M NOT.
1. We celebrated my older son’s 9th birthday in the sukkah with my ex and his mom (my awesome used-to-be-Mormon-but-converted-to-Judaism-after-I-got-married-mother-in-law who I still call mother-in-law even though I am divorced). It was very nice. I ordered proper schach this year for the first time, which is the palm fronds that make up the roof of the sukkah. In the past, we used bamboo. This is the first sukkah I have had post-divorce. It was hard in a lot of ways, as divorced mamas know. But it’s good. It’s OK.
2. I don’t really like Halloween (shocking, I know, given my love of all things pop culture like “Frozen” and Ariana Grande billboards). However, I do like the harvest vibe of October, even in sunny Southern California. I like pumpkin festivals and hay rides (as long as they are short because I am allergic–oy, could I sound any more like Woody Allen right now?!).