Tihar is our busiest holiday.  We clean the house and prepare a lamp-lit path and beautiful mandalas to entice Goddess Laxmi to visit Ama Ghar and bring prosperity. It is also the Festival of Lights.  This year the older ones visited the in Kathmandu to see the light displays.  Maha Puja (Worshiping self) is a Newari tradition that Ama Ghar has …