We had our feast last night, it was delicious and the egg rolls were a BIG hit. We started the day before with making decorations for the house. We have several banners done in Chinese characters and they are all traditional wishes and greetings for the New Year-except the one that we made up for Billy. I never realized how good Les was at the calligraphy and he is responsible for all of ours and the drawings. It basically looks like a CNY bomb went off around here and I think it looks great. We have represented most of the traditional animals - we have fish for abundance, bats for luck, dragons for power, butterflies for longevity and the Rat of course! Evelyn realy loved that we were doing this, though she was dissapointed to figure out that we weren't actually going to China.
As far as the feast, I didn't really get too carried away. I made an Asian Party mix (thanks Chris for that recipe) which we munched on non-stop throughout the day, we had homemade egg rolls, a stirfry and then some steamed rice. We were supposed to have "fireworks ice cream" but we ran out of room/time and we will have them today I think. This was my first attempt at egg rolls and they were fun and easier than I expected, I know, I can't make muffins from scratch but I can manage egg rolls? Go figure. Anyway, Bean had a blast rolling the egg rolls and watching them fry up.
It was fun figuring out how to incorporate some of the traditions into our life. The book "Moonbeams,Dumplings and Dragon Boats" was a big help. Next year we hope to have a big party with lots of family to help eat the egg rolls.
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