過年的習慣

I don't know what you do at the beginning of a New Year, but we tend to spend time meeting friends in parties and gatherings who have not yet fully gone back to our usual working schedule. Just these past two weekends we have gone to parties of friends, some of whom have come from quite far away to meet for the holidays.

Our daughter you can see in the photo to the left is busily impressing others with her knowledge of things that she herself is not quite sure about herself, a talent she shares with her father. Our youngest one, however, as you can see by the photo below remains unimpressed by all this as he is no doubt mistily dreaming of the piece of dark chocolate cake upstairs he hoped to plunge himself nose first into.

Another tradition we encountered, this time among friends at our church cell group, is of commenting on strengths 優點 of each one of the members of the group. That is a nice tradition. Each person had to think of something unique, but true, to say about another's strengths to build up fellowship and start the New Year on the right note. I myself was hoping to receive the 'least expensive haircut' award, but to no avail.