Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year. Show all posts

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Slow Start to the New Year

Forgive me for not getting the menu plan up today?  I'm currently couch-ridden, unable to stand for any length of time, and therefore unable to cook for the week.  My husband and son are at my parents' house for New Year's Day dinner, and I've got Buffy and football to keep me company. 

I don't know if I'll be well enough to get cooking tomorrow, but my husband is going to help get the menu plan cooked and photographed.  I'm reviewing the Gluten Free Asian Kitchen cookbook this month, so many of the dishes over the next little while will be from that book. 

Looking forward to it!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Happy Lunar New Year!

Wishing everyone who follows a very happy Lunar New Year!  I don't know all of the traditions, but I know that you're not supposed to clean today so that you don't sweep away the luck of the new year.  Sounds great to me!  So, goodbye year of the Tiger, and Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit!

 Although I celebrate the new year on January 1st, this is a reminder to me to keep working towards my goals for 2011.

Some great celebration photos can be found in this newspaper article from the National Post.

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a safe and happy new year, and I wish you all the best for 2011!  I just started this blog in December, but I'm grateful for those of you who are following it and I hope to make many more connections in the year to come.

I have accepted the Bloggymoms dare and plan to post an entry every day in 2011.   Am trying not to think too much about what that means, and just focus on things that are meaningful and useful to myself and hopefully to others. If you are clicking here from that site after Jan. 1st please click on the header at the top of the page to get my most recent posts.  I'm new to this, and I posted the link to this first post rather than to the site in general.  Stuff happens.  I will also be completing the bloggymoms challenge each Tuesday and hope to participate in some recipe link-ups with other GF sites.  The part I've enjoyed the most about blogging so far is meeting (virtually) other people who have so many interesting stories to share.  I have even been moved to tears by a few posts!  This is a whole new world for me, and one I can't wait to get more comfortable with in the year to come.

So, being the first day of the new year, and an unseasonably warm one where I live, I'll keep this post short.  I'm off to enjoy a wonderful fresh (GF) pasta dinner with my parents, sister and niece.  I hope that you're able take some time to relax and enjoy the possibilities that a fresh start offers, before the day-to-day business of life creeps back in and tries to veer us off track.  Here's to new goals, new dreams and a brand new year!

Best Wishes!