Tonight we Chinese celebrate Mid Autumn Festival,the 15th day of the first month Lunar Year. Usually the children will play with lanterns and the adults will enjoy mooncakes and have tea. When I was a kid that’s exactly what my brothers and cousin will do while the adults will sit around sipping their prized collection of tea and nibble on mooncakes. We (the kids) will try to out do each other with our lanterns… 
I kinda miss those times…
Last night we had dinner with my parents and some friends sort of to celebrate this day. Although my Dad did buy Aiden a battery operated ‘lantern’ he wasn’t really interested in carrying it around last night. Instead he asked for a traditional one with candles and all… I was wondering why? Maybe he saw other kids having that? Well, then I reminded him of his ‘lion dance’ lantern that Kung-Kung has bought for him a couple of weeks ago… He said “Yeah…but I want the candle type. So that I can burn it!!” 
I said NO! Sigh! My son… So later at dinner he just played with some candles and soon got bored having to keep lighting them up when the wind blew them out.
Tonight, is the actual day but we didn’t do anything Mid Autumn-my… Instead my parents, Caitlyn and I was in Ikea shopping for curtains and finally I bought my dressing table. After more then a year I finally have my dressing table! Anyone who knows me and how vain I am would’ve thought that I would have a really elaborate dressing table with all my lotions and potions all decked out, arranged according to it’s uses and colors in rows and rows of drawers… you are very wrong. Wait till you see it. I’ll post a picture of it when I’m done. I actually settled for something really simple, just so that I have a dressing table. ;-)
So that’s how I spent my Mid Autumn festival, no mooncakes or tea, infact I didn’t even see a lantern anywhere. kekeke!!
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