the rabbi from the conservative shul called me back. she told me that they have a lot of intermarried couples there and that they have been opening up a bit because no one should be ostracized for the different family traditions that exist in their home.

i told her how she had made a huge impression on BC when we went to a tot shabbat a few months earlier. and how BC wanted a rabbi on her birthday cake. (i put hello kitty on it instead.) the rabbi cracked up.

i think that's a good sign, don't you?