Happy Chinese New Year

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This is the year of the ox. Charlie's year. Claudia is a rat, just like me, and Mary Slayden is a Monkey, just like my grandmother, Meme. I called her today because she used to have a Chinese New Year book with colorful pictures and descriptions of all of the signs. I loved looking at that book when I was little and want to find it for my girls.

I think we'll celebrate by having Chinese food for dinner tonight. Ideally, we'd go to a restaurant, but I'm trying to diet so I'm making this Pork Ramen noodle dish. Its an old Weight Watchers recipe that has become a family fave. I might try to find some dumplings to steam also.