After her conversion, my mother and my father had to get halachically married. That was an interesting experience for me!

Soon after my tenth birthday, my mother was finally ready to convert as well. As an adult, she had to learn much more than I, so she had to study for a lot longer than I had to. We had been keeping Torah and mitzvos as a family for a few years already, and my mother was so eager and grateful to join the Jewish nation at last.

After her conversion, my mother and my father had to get halachically married. That was an interesting experience for me! I was eleven years old at the time, and I can tell you, it was an odd feeling. How many teens can tell you that they were present when their biological parents married each other? Not so many!