Snow returned back from China in the early hours of Saturday morning after a 5 hours delay - urgh! This was due to a major snow storm over January 2nd and 3rd, resulting in 8 inches of new snow and 2 snow days for Erin. We all received gifts from her trip - green tea, a book of Chinese stamps, a picture and illustrations of the animals depicting Chinese New Year.
China celebrates New Year (aka Spring Festival) according to the lunar calendar so the actual date changes yearly but is in either January or February. Each year is named after one of twelve animals and this year, the year of the horse, starts on January 31st and is celebrated for 15 days. That's my kind of celebration!
Today all three girls returned back to school. Molly has decided to take up band, which is a before-school activity starting at 6.40am, which means both Molly and Snow have to leave the house at 6.35am three days a week. Snow was a trooper and was quite happy to go into school much earlier than usual. She has struggled with the time change so we haven't seen much of her since she returned, but with all this sleep she's been having she should be up bright and early for school tomorrow!
