Archive for January 26th, 2009
Happy Spring Festival! Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year!
Whatever you call it, today ushers us in Year 4706 on the Chinese calendar which means it is now the Year of the Ox.
We had many good intentions to decorate and celebrate but the latest round of sickness sort of wiped all of those out. If Ava were a little older and would remember any of this then we probably would have roused ourselves from the sofa and made more of an effort but we got a pass this year that we won’t have again so we took it. We will be attending our local FCC CNY celebration early next month so it’s not like we’re totally disregarding it but we just couldn’t make ourselves get out to any of the community events that happened this weekend.
We did, however, make a brief foray out into the world on Friday and visited a local asian owned home decor store where I bought a fabulous ox to display this year. It’s already found a spot on the mantel where it will stay until next year when it will be replaced with a tiger. Well, heck. It looks like we’re starting a tradition and I didn’t even mean to!
Here’s our ox. Isn’t she marvelous?
