someone posted this on YeshivaWorld:

Advertise in shul that you have a petting zoo in your house. Then, let kids hold and feed your nieces and nephews. You can sell handfuls of cheerios.

thank you Shmeichel, a good year to you and yours too
filled with nachas through and through

would like share a thought that landed in my head on yom tov.
we say in musaf "Haloch vekarasa be'oznay yerushalayim laimor zacharti lach chesed ne'urayich etc.".

why is it important to specify that the Navi call into the ears of Yerushalayim? why doesn't it just say "lech emor lahem" or something similar.

If an announcement is made to a group of people, an individual in the crowd can feel that it was not directed at him specifically. But if someone leans over and whispers something in my ear there is no mistaking who the recipient of the message is. The RBSO is leaning over and whispering into our ears, each one of us, zacharti lach chesed neurayich ahavas kelulosayich. The RBSO remembers that 'good times' we had together and wants us to return to Him.

Thats on Rosh Hashana.

During aseres yemei teshuvah we ask for the other half of the equation:
Hashem shima bekolee teeyena aznecha kashoovois lekol tachanunoi.
That HKBH should bend over and listen to us. That we feel and believe that He is listening.

And on Sukkos we come to shul every morning and with the daled minim - that symbolize our hearts, eyes, mouths and spines - we sing and thank Hashem for doing just that: ahavti ki yishma Hashem ess koli tachanunoi, ki hita oznoi lee uveyamai ekra.