{"id":104,"date":"2007-02-24T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-12-01T01:46:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T06:46:24","slug":"fcc-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/104","title":{"rendered":"FCC &#8211; Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/procserv\/47b7dc05b3127cce81852edae46100000016108AYt2bRu1cs8\" width=\"409\" height=\"255\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, the girls and I attended our first Chinese New Year celebration. Our local FCC chapter (Families with Children from China) puts this on every year and we were excited to be able to go. There was a craft time, great dinner, silent auctions (I won a cute panda print for Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room!), and a wonderful program of singers, ribbon dancers, fan dancers, and the grand finale\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the lion dance! The girls loved that, although Abbey was hoping for a dragon dance!<\/p>\n<p>The guys weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to come with us because they had prior plans. Randy surprised the boys at Christmas time with tickets to the Monster Truck Rally. So, tonight was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Guys night\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Girls night\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the Clarks :)<\/p>\n<p>I was just thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a year ago we were almost ready to turn in our application for adoption with our agency. Now, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re anticipating meeting Lainey THIS year and will be able to take her to the next Chinese New Year celebration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the girls and I attended our first Chinese New Year celebration. Our local FCC chapter (Families with Children from China) puts this on every year and we were excited to be able to go. There was a craft time, great dinner, silent auctions (I won a cute panda print for Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room!), and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}