The day is coming to a close but the decorations are still up! Happy New year to all and welcome to the year of the cat!...Matteo and I celebrated on Sunday by attending the Vietnamese festival here in Ottawa (photos in the previous blog) held on Matteo's 8 month birthday.
Tonight we went to dinner at the Mekong restaurant with a few of the people from the SPA groups - (single parents adopting).... unfortunately Matteo was not himself today...he had another vaccine yesterday and while he was fine yesterday, today he was not himself, not eating much, sleeping briefly at one moment and then longer the next and not so many smiles today....however as the restaurant was near here and we wanted to do something special we went even if it wasn't for a long time....the restaurant was very nice, as was the company, however Matteo was so good, but I realized it was really not going to work for me to stay and eat my main course...managed the appetizers.....so we asked for it to be wrapped up and said our goodbyes....instead of going straight home I took a bit of a drive...Matteo fell immediately to sleep so I wanted to not disturb him for a bit...then we came home...I put him to bed and then I ate my Tet dinner.
I did manage to read up a bit about how to celebrate Tet and hopefully each year Matteo and I will celebrate and add cultural markers to the event......
This year some decorations were put up....we have somewhat of an altar, as I have a place on one of my buffets where I have photos of my parents and a favourite aunt who have died...and there is a candle there that I light on the anniversary of their deaths...., and in the future I will add some of the Vietnamese cultural elements to what I already have. As for cleaning the house....well that didn't happen, had great intentions, but it seems that is one area I have not been able to keep up on ....so the cleaning will only take place in the near future (I hope!)....I did buy a wonderful Vietnamese cookbook and will work on getting my kitchen well stocked with the appropriate spices....to begin our celebrations, Matteo and I went to the T&T and am posting a photo of their decorations....So for now I hope everyone had a wonderful day and pray once again for everyone waiting for their children, that the year of the cat will bring them all home!!....
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