For Chinese New Year, area adoptive families met to celebrate the Year of the Pig. In China it is a time of family with parades and celebrations. It is considered a very lucky year because the Year of the Pig only comes every 50 years or so.
Also, it is the Vietnamese New Year called Tet. In Vietnam they give out small red envelopes with money inside and everyone has a birthday. It is custom that the population waits and turns a year older at Tet.
We were so happy to be able to celebrate this special time in our daughter's birth culture with other China adoptive families. As far as I know we are the only Vietnamese adoptive family in our area. Kaitlyn didn't seem to mind because in her words "most people think I am Chinese anyway." Somtimes you do not realize how culturally aware they are! We have some friends though that are working on an adoption from Vietnam and it will be fun to celebrate Tet with them in a few years.
Happy Year of the Pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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