In keeping with tradition, we have been celebrating Chinese
New Year around our house. The fifteen
day celebration began on Sunday, honoring this upcoming year: The Year of the Snake.
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| It was the inspiration behind our art projects.... |
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| Making our "Good Luck" signs to hang around the house. |
It is hard to know where Lucy will fall on the continuum as
she gets older: will she like these
traditions of honoring her birth country?
Or will she think them unnecessary, only wanting to recognize the culture
of the country she has lived in most of her life? I have heard ramblings among the adoption
community that each child is different in how they feel about these
things; some children yearn for a
connection to their past, and some have no need for looking back on a culture
that they have no personal memory of. For now, we will do what we can to cherish
those parts of Lucy’s heritage which are intricately woven into who she is.
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| Trying my hand at a new recipe: General Tso's Chicken (a healthy version)... It was wonderful! |
On a website I was reading, they noted one trend that will
mark the upcoming year of the Snake:
“A new-found ambition to greatness
will
inspire you to be all you can be,
and provide you with the follow through
to
actually achieve your goals.”
Doesn’t
sound bad to me at all! May we all find
truth to this prediction in our own lives!
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