It is a tradition during the Chinese New Year that children would receive red envelope containing money from their relatives.

When the children start working and when their parents retire, the tradition is for the grown children to give the red envelope with money as gift to their parents.

Here is a picture of Jessica, granddaughter to my sister Susan. Jessica is showing off a New Year red envelope. Susan said that Jessica gave her a handmade card in a red envelope to show appreciation for all the love and care that grandma provided during the previous year. Even though there is no money in the red envelope, Susan treasures it more than anything else. Jessica is a sweet and thoughtful little girl.

We have a tradition of having a fish dish on New Year's Eve. We would buy more fish than we could consume to create left over fish for the New Year's Day.

The sound of "fish" in Chinese is the same as "more" or "abundance". Having fish left over from one year to the other year signifies the coming year being full and happy.

It has been a long time since I updated my blog.

This will be a very happy year for our family because we will have a new addition to the Wu family, a little "Wuster".

We would like to say Happy New Year to our friends; hope all have as much happiness as we do.

Here is a card made from a picture taken at the Ranch 99 Market by my friend Betty. I use Photoshop to make it into a greeting card to share with all our friends.