Since I took a pain-killer, my headache had mostly gone away after about one hour.
While they were going to the music school, I vacuumed the rooms, cleaned the toilet, and did the laundry.
After that, I read with my 7-year-old son books which we borrowed at the library two weeks ago.
He can already read books by himself, but I think this is a precious time with my children.
I like listening to their impressions of books.
In particular, my son often can't understand the story deeply even though he can read it.
One of the books I read with him yesterday was called "Hanasakiyama (花さき山)".
The story was like this:
A ten-year-old girl named Aya who went into the mountain to harvest mountain vegetables for treat of the festival bumped into Yamanba which is Japanese Yokai who is like an old woman, lives in the deep mountain and is said that she eats human.
They saw beautiful flowers bloomed all around.
Yamanba told Aya:
"These flowers bloom when people who live at the foot of the mountain do a good thing. The red flower bloomed because of you.
You gave up your hope for new Sunday best cloth for the festival because your younger sister Soyo also wanted it but you knew your family was poor and you understood well that your mother would be at a loss if you also wanted it.
These flowers bloom when people give priority not to themselves but for others and they give up with their hopes with tears.
That's why they are so beautiful."
"What do you think about the story? I read it when I was a child. It left a great impression on me."
"Well, the Yamanba looks scary!"
"Was that your point? Anything else?"
"Well, it was interesting!"
It will take a long time for him to understand the story.
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