Well yesterday was the Chinese new year for 2007.

I know, I know, I have never been to China (would love to go), never adopted from China (now I am too fat ) but I am VERY into Chinese food and some of the mystical beliefs behind the celebrating of a new year.

I have to face the fact, I am a procrastinator, a bad one. The placement of the Chinese new year on the calendar (oh like seven weeks after western culture) is therefore PERFECT for me. Hey I had seven extra weeks to further put my preparations off ! If I wanted to make any resolutions of any kind, I had plenty of extra time to get started, right?

Well even with all that I still did not manage to get this post out in time to share what I am trying out to test the Chinese “Law of Abundance.” Was supposed to post this yesterday. So as usual I am a day late, and a dollar (ok a few thousand) short. I decided that I would still share what I am doing, and update you later if I am still here blogging away at the end of Chinese 2007. If I am then it will have been a very abundant year for me.

Our local radio station tuned me into this idea, they say it works so I am giving it a whirl. The legend goes that you remove a check from you checkbook on the new year (Feb 18th) to complete. On the top you put the date, make the check out to yourself, your full legal name. Leave the money line and box empty. Sign it on the signature line “Law of Abundance”, and write in the memo area “Paid in Full.” Take the check and carry it with you at all times in the coming year. This is supposed to draw good fortune, money, and luck to you in the Chinese belief of attraction to energy. Everyone who I have talked to who have tried it swear it works!

Why am I going for it this year? Well I meant to try it out last year (procrastination again) and just did not have enough time. This year the kids all are begging for a trip to Disney World and I am afraid the bank account just will not currently support such a venture. So I figured, why not? It couldn’t hurt, and maybe something will zap my checkbook and I will mystically find the funds for the trip the kids so desperately want.

I could use the trip myself. We have been living lean for a long while. A special time as a family seems to be just what we need. All the years we waited, complicated restrictions we went through, tremendous amount of funds we expended to welcome our family through adoption has left us a little low on resources afterwards. I wonder if that is a common thing to put so much out there to adopt your children only to have so little left to give them in the way of extras latter. I know, I know, current reports are that adoptive parents do so much more (uh-huh), but some of us I am sure deplete our resources and then are not able to do what we would like once our children are home.

So I am in high hopes that the “Law of Abundance” will apply to ME. All you readers please send your positive energy this way, we can use it!


Photo: Chinese symbol for Abundance