Comments on: Chinese New Year http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/ Join the Rumor Queen as she looks for the latest rumors and then analyzes them, trying to figure out what the CCAA will do next. Tue, 22 May 2012 21:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: pipermom http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-59763 pipermom Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:13:20 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=2165#comment-59763 We actually started celebrating CNY while we were waiting for our referral just to get in the habit - and the spirit - of the holiday. This will be our fifth year celebrating and we're still refining our family's traditions. Then again, we're still refining Christmas! We do it to honor our daughter's birthland and culture. We believe in keeping a foot in both countries and holidays are an excellent way to do that. We're dorky enough to celebrate several holidays in addition to Spring Festival. Piper has several books on CNY that we actually read all year long because she likes them so much. We do our own celebration at home and attend several events around town. One of her favorite memories is holding the dragon's tail during our FCC's CNY event last year. She talks about it all the time. I really hope she gets to hold the tail this year or it's going to be a looonnng year! We actually started celebrating CNY while we were waiting for our referral just to get in the habit – and the spirit – of the holiday. This will be our fifth year celebrating and we’re still refining our family’s traditions. Then again, we’re still refining Christmas!

We do it to honor our daughter’s birthland and culture. We believe in keeping a foot in both countries and holidays are an excellent way to do that. We’re dorky enough to celebrate several holidays in addition to Spring Festival.

Piper has several books on CNY that we actually read all year long because she likes them so much. We do our own celebration at home and attend several events around town. One of her favorite memories is holding the dragon’s tail during our FCC’s CNY event last year. She talks about it all the time. I really hope she gets to hold the tail this year or it’s going to be a looonnng year!

]]> By: RumorQueen http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-59762 RumorQueen Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:39:26 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=2165#comment-59762 arw, I'll be talking about that in a blog post at a later date. I wanted to get the CNY stuff out now so people can make plans for their own celebrations. Once I'm done with CNY I have some ideas about attachment I want to talk about, and then I'm going to bring up the author you mentioned. klem - exactly. We celebrated our first CNY a few months before we brought GG home. It was a small celebration, and we bought the food and brought it home (now we make it from scratch), but it got us started. It took us a while for it to feel like tradition, so I'm glad we started it so early so we could get beyond the awkward stuff before GG was old enough to realize it was new to us. arw, I’ll be talking about that in a blog post at a later date. I wanted to get the CNY stuff out now so people can make plans for their own celebrations. Once I’m done with CNY I have some ideas about attachment I want to talk about, and then I’m going to bring up the author you mentioned.

klem – exactly. We celebrated our first CNY a few months before we brought GG home. It was a small celebration, and we bought the food and brought it home (now we make it from scratch), but it got us started. It took us a while for it to feel like tradition, so I’m glad we started it so early so we could get beyond the awkward stuff before GG was old enough to realize it was new to us.

]]> By: arw http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-59761 arw Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:06:47 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=2165#comment-59761 With regard to children born in China defining who they are, there is a brilliant young writer, Tai Dong Huai, a Pushcart Prize nominee, who is presently writing about the Chinese adoption experience. A lot of her stories are available free on the internet. I’ve compiled a list of links to her bio and some of those stories here: http://adopttalkcanada.com/forum/index.php?topic=277.0 With regard to children born in China defining who they are, there is a brilliant young writer, Tai Dong Huai, a Pushcart Prize nominee, who is presently writing about the Chinese adoption experience. A lot of her stories are available free on the internet. I’ve compiled a list of links to her bio and some of those stories here:

http://adopttalkcanada.com/forum/index.php?topic=277.0

]]> By: klem http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-59760 klem Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:00:12 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=2165#comment-59760 RQ: This is a great post. I really liked your reasons for celebrating CNY. Another reason we do it is because we really like it. Unlike Thanksgiving or Christmas, we feel freer to make it up as we go along and that tends to be more enjoyable. We have so many funny memories, esp. from our first CNY, when we had no clue what we were doing. So many families that I meet tell me that they will wait to celebrate CNY until their children are older. My advise is don't wait. Create your traditions now. You don't wait to celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving or Easter until your kids are older--why wait for CNY? RQ: This is a great post. I really liked your reasons for celebrating CNY. Another reason we do it is because we really like it. Unlike Thanksgiving or Christmas, we feel freer to make it up as we go along and that tends to be more enjoyable. We have so many funny memories, esp. from our first CNY, when we had no clue what we were doing.

So many families that I meet tell me that they will wait to celebrate CNY until their children are older. My advise is don’t wait. Create your traditions now. You don’t wait to celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving or Easter until your kids are older–why wait for CNY?

]]> By: Tresordasie http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/01/08/chinese-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-59757 Tresordasie Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:34:13 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=2165#comment-59757 My daughters (3 & 5 yrs old) LOVE the book My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz. My daughters (3 & 5 yrs old) LOVE the book My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz.

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