The Year of the Rabbit

International adoption has its downsides...one of which is the HUGE amount of paperwork it takes to prove your worth as a parent...but it has some really cool things about it too.  Like for instance, we now have another culture to graft into our family.  A culture that has some pretty cool traditions and some very yummy food.  It is important to me that I give our future daughter a sense of her birth culture and that the rest of our family learns about it too.  So this year instead of going to get Chinese to celebrate CNY, I invited 11 friends over to join us for a more traditional celebration, complete with lantern and character crafts, eight traditional Chinese dishes (okay so the brownies weren't traditional), red envelopes with candy money, and fireworks (Scott's favorite part... it was kinda strange to see them lit while it's snowing).  I even made everyone attempt to use chopsticks...everyone was such a good sport.  It was really so much fun and I think a great start to what looks like an awesome year!