Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Happy Lunar New Year...2014 is the year of the horse. Despite the low points we have had happen this week, we are getting into CNY.  Yesterday we decorated the house with lanterns, dragons and prosperity symbols.  We even watched CNY parades and lion dances on YouTube. We were going to go shopping for sobu noodles and lychee drinks today, but several of us are not feeling the best.  Emma has asked me to read books we own on CNY and we assembled red envelopes for her classmates next week.  I asked her if she wanted to talk to her class about CNY but it is still a definite no.  Her school encourages heritage presentations but Emma isn't into sharing yet.

This week we lost our beloved cat, Sport Scott Todd...he was 19 years old...even today Emma is still talking about missing him.  She drew a picture of Sport and put a circle around him...I asked what the circle is and she said, "the hole in the backyard where Daddy buried him".  Sigh.  We need the distraction of Chinese New Year!