My husband's masterpiece

My husband made "Shirokuma (しろくま)" for our 6-year-old daughter during Golden Week.

Shirokuma (White bear) is character of Sumikkogurashi (すみっコぐらし), which is very popular character merchandise among little girls.

Sumikko means at a corner of a room, and Gurashi means "living".

All characters of Sumikkogurashi like staying in a corner.

It means Japanese people tend to feel more relaxed staying at the corner of somewhere, for instance, a corner seat of a restaurant, a corner seat of a train, and other places like that.

Similar to other girls, our daughter loves Sumikkogurashi, she said during Golden Week;

"I want to have a Shirokuma stuffed toy!"

My husband said:

"But these are expensive. All right, I will make one for you."

"Really? Please don't make a promise which you will not be able to keep."

I told him.

"It's easy for me! I will definitely do it!"

He said.

"Wow! Thank you dad!"

Our daughter was so excited to hear this.

I wondered if he would keep his promise.

But, he did.

He made it using a towel!

"What an amazing dad! I can't believe!"

I was so suprised and said.

My daughter sew on its hands and feet.

I was surprised at my husband and daughter's incredible work.

Actually, I am not good at sewing.

I am glad that she is handy like her dad.


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Bub caused the fight

I bought "Bub (バブ)" at the supermarket last week.

Bub is a kind of a bath salt which is made by Kao Corporation.

It was released in 1983, and has been on sale since then.

When I was a child, I stayed at my grandparents house with my mother and sister during New Year's vacation and Obon.

My grandmother always prepared Bub.

We looked forward to putting it into the bath tub.

It's shaped like a cube, and it effervesces like fizzy soda in hot water.

I liked its sound (しゅわしゅわ in Japanese) very much.

I also liked its nice smell, it makes me relax.

Bub is usually a little expensive, but it was on sale, I decided to buy it.

I thought my children would surely enjoy it.



But this decision was the cause of a fight.

They were sure to quarrel about how it should be dissolved in the bath tub.

My 7-year-old Son insisted :

"Don't touch it! I want to watch how it dissolves!"

My 5-year-old Daughter also insisted:

"I want to touch it because it is interesting! And I want to put it in the wash basin, so that I can see its color well!"

They would not give an inch on their oppinions.

So I suggested to them that they should use it as they like on alternate days, and they agreed with my idea.



It was my daughter's turn yesterday.

She put Bub into the wash basin and started dessolving it.

Then my son got angry with her and said:

"Don't put it into the wash basin, put it into the bath tub and don't touch it! "

"But today is my turn. I can use it as I like!"

She insisted.

"But I allowed you to touch the Bub yesterday!"

Actually, my daughter said to my son two days ago:

"I envy you! I want to touch the Bub, too!"

"Maybe he will allow you to touch it, he is always kind to you."

I told her on purpose, so he told her:

"OK! You can touch it!"

Thanks to my son's kindness, they were able to enjoy it together.

But she insisted that today was her turn and she never showed consideration to him.

He finally got mad at her and went out of the bath room.

I told them:

"Both of you didn't seem to be able to enjoy it together, so why don't you stop using Bub until you are able to use it happily. Unfortunately it causes your fight. Both of you always seem to think of yourself first."

"OK, OK ! I don't want to put it into bath tub!"

My son said a parting shot even though he liked Bub.

"Oh, no! I want to put it into the bath tub!"

My daughter cried.

I put it away in the cabinet.

I hope the day will come when they will use Bub together happily.

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The effect of TV

I went to the supermarket with my children yesterday afternoon.

I wanted to buy some chocolate which contains high amounts of cocoa, but most of them had been sold out except one.

I bought the chocolate because of the good effects of chocolate with high amounts of cocoa were introduced on the NHK morning program "Asaichi" 2 days ago.

I also watched the program.

It said that chocolate has a lot of good effects like relieving constipation, preventing dementia, and preventing high blood pressure.

It often happens here in Japan that products are sold out after they are featured on TV.

I bought the last one.

The chocolate includes 95% cacao.

I know it is very bitter and it isn't sweet and delicious.

I ate one with coffee this morning, but actually I didn't like it.

Maybe I will not buy it next time even if it is good for health.

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