Happy New Year!

   This past week of holiday fun has sent me into a happy state of exhaustion. We baked, sewed, ate, and spent time together. Friends dropped delicious treats by and carolers even graced our door. It was a pleasant time of family and remembering the reason for the season. Now as I look around my home that I spent days cleaning, organizing and preparing for Christmas...I see that the joy of the holiday has left its mark. After two days of resting and spending quality time with the family...it's time to clean house and ready ourselves to ring in the New Year. Besides the mounds of laundry and bags of paper trash, there is much to be done. We like to eat Chinese food for New Year's Eve. Yum. This year we decided to make orange chicken, chicken chow mien, Chinese dumplings, white rice, fortune cookies and these yummies...Chinese Almond Cookies.

A quick recipe for Chinese Almond Cookies here.

     As my home is quite festively decorated in the Christmas theme I thought I'd bring in some New Year Cheer and declutter the holiday haze. Here is a fun printable that I made up for New Years. Traditionally in Hawaii on New Year's Eve most everyone celebrates with food and fireworks. Most common are the Chinese red firecracker bundles that are set off at midnight to ring in the New Year. These are strands of thousands of firecrackers that send off a most loud hurrah! The streets are often peppered in red firecracker paper and the New Year Day is spent sweeping up the night of fun. I'm looking forward to a new year, 2011 was a difficult one, but we are all well and good. Here is to a bright and shiny new year full of surprises, opportunity, and hope.

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~Christie