February begins with a week of celebrations and disruptions for Chinese New Year. We don't usually celebrate it ourselves, but this year the celebratory feel "came and got us." With fewer restrictions, there have been more firecrackers, gift exchanges, and gatherings. Grace and Aiden had the week off from Chinese classes. Rather last minute we had Aiden's best friend over for a meal and a game of Catan, and a steady but irregular stream of neighbours bringing over traditional New Year snacks to share with us (as we did at Christmas!). With an impromptu decision to take the day off school, it felt way more celebratory than usual for us, and nicely so. Even not having thought ahead to go grocery shopping before everything shut down for celebrations got in the way!
Sunday we went to our newest beach for a fire supper and laze around under the stars. We found a lot of tiles in amongst the shells and collected enough for a few coasters. So all week mom has been experimenting with hot glue and a plaster of paris substitute to find a workable means of making coasters that will stay together. Not sure we've found it yet...but they'll look good when we do!
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