Simply Yvonne's Blog

If you celebrate the Lunar New Year, wishing you a prosperous new year with good health and full of happy days. I was born on the year of the dog and apparently this year is a great year for me! woo-hoo! 2012 was good to me but 2013 will be even better and looking forward to many pleasant things that will happen this year. Read about the year of the snake here . Too cute to not share, the first collage was taken last year around this time, she was almost 1! She has grown so much within one year! Jet (Chihuahua) has always been her so patient and loving with her ♥ Poor guy, she was squeezing him so hard! Have a great week and thank you so much for visiting!

For those who do celebrate the Chinese/Vietnamese New Year, Happy New Year (Chúc Mừng Năm Mới, Kung Hei Fat Choy) I have been cleaning for the past few days so that we will have good fortune and health for the upcoming year! We are not allow to clean or do laundry on the day of or else the whole year will come with misfortunes and hardships. Asians are so superstitious, we try to avoid things so badluck does not find us and we follow it greatly around the Lunar New Year. :D Over the weekend, we welcome the year of the Dragon with good tradition food and surrounded ourselves with close friends. Here are some interesting Lunar New Year superstitions I gather  online : Stay positive and do not wish ill on others. We should welcome the Lunar New Year with positive energy. Many people believe that on New Year's Day washing hair is not allowed because it would have washed away good luck for the New Year. Wearing new clothes represent the new that you want to be bringing...