Chinese New Year

I love Chinese New Year. This year, the kids and I made a special dinner for William to celebrate. We even surprised him with some very Chinese bowls, which brought back a lot of memories. I'm still not doing as good a job as I'd like to on incorporating all the Chinese holidays. We're working on it, but certainly the Western holidays are given more attention---even in our own family. So, I'm setting a goal now to make a big deal of the major Chinese holidays this year. We want those holidays to be as important to the kids as the other "big ones". Anyway, we did have fun and the kids wore their special traditional Chinese clothes and even got new bikes as presents. The weather has been beautiful here, so they've been able to ride to their hearts' content. Well, the new year begins. Xin Nian Kuai Le! Gong Xi Fa Cai!