
New Beginnings
Billions of people around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year in February and welcomed in The Year of the Monkey. In our home, we celebrate the Vietnamese version of the holiday, known as Tet. It is a holiday preceded by a number of rituals all tied to creating peace and harmony within the home to welcome the positive energies brought in by the new year.
The evening proceeding Tet is a time for families to thoroughly clean the house and sweep away bad luck and ill fortu