I try to believe

My 7-year-old son promised his friend to play at the park near my house after school.

He was looking forward to it very much.

He asked me:

"Can I bring this snack? I want to eat it with him. He will bring some snack,too. So we will be able to share them each other!"

Then I got an email.

It was from his mother.

It said:

"My son told me that he promised your son to go to the park today, but I am afraid that I can't let him go because he was throwing stones when they were playing at the park yesterday. It was dangerous, so I scolded him strictly and I forbid him from going to the park for a while. I am sorry. Please say hello to your son and play with him next time."

Since I went to work and my husband stayed at home yesterday, my son didn't have to go to the children's house and he went to the park with the boy yesterday, too.

But I didn't know about it at all because my son didn't tell me about it.

I asked my son:

"Oh, his mother said that he can't go to the park because he threw stones and she got angry with him. Did such a thing happen really yesterday?"

He answered:

"Yeah, he was throwing stones toward a vending machine across the street while his mother picked his younger brother up from the nursery school. She came to the park. and found him throwing stones, then  scolded him."

I asked him:

"How about you? What were you doing?"

"I was climbing up the tree."

Since he likes climbing up a tree, I belived what he said.

I replied her and said:

"You must be disappointed, but I guess maybe you will be able to play with him next Wednesday."


 

After that, I started suspecting him a little whether he also threw stones with his friend.

Children tend to avoid talking about what they might be scolded by their parents.

But I decided to try to believe him.

After I picked my 6-year-old daughter up from the nursery school, I told them:

"It's snack time! I bought Sansyoku Dango! Since it will be a Girl's Festival tomorrow, many Japanese sweets were sold at the supermarket."

We enjoyed the snack time.

 

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Hina-arare ひなあられ

I asked my mother to come home and take care of my 7-year-old son yesterday because I have to go to work.

When I came home with my 5-year-old daughter in the evening, his temperature had already gone down.

My daughter said:

"I want to eat the Hina-arare!"

"Hina-arare (bite-sized rice crackers) is an offering to Hina-dolls. You can eat it on March 3rd, because the Girls festival (Hina-matsuri) is on that day."

I explained the reason why she should wait until eating them.

"Oh no! I can't wait!"

She likes Hina-arare very much.

I heard that it tastes different in each region.

Those which I had bought so far included sugar or soy sauce tastes.

In fact, I told her the same explanation last year, but she asked me whether she was able to eat it every day or not.

At last, I allowed her to eat it before March 3rd because I couldn't be bothered to explain the reason to her every day.

How long will she be able to put up with eating Hina-arare this year?

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Whose Oanmaki??

When I went to the kitchen around 5am, I found a box of Oanmaki.

Oannmaki is a Japanese sweet pancake that Chiryu-city in Aichi specializes in.

It is like Dorayaki, red bean paste is covered with hot cake dough.

I love it very much!

I guessed that my husband bought it for me because he knows I love it.

What a kind husband!

If I ate it, I would surely get fat!

But I don't care.

Let's eat!


But, wait a minute.

He left a note for me saying that he will go to Tokyo for one day business trip today so he wants me to wake him up at 6:30am.

It might be a souvenir which he will take to Tokyo.

I thought I should ask him about it after he wakes up.



"Are you going to take the oanmaki as a souvenir to Tokyo today?"

I asked him.

"No, I happened to find the store which sold Oanmaki yesterday. I guessed you would like it."

"Oh, you are the best!"

I rarely eat such a sweet thing in the morning.

But it was so sweet and delicious!

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What is the difference between "Ohagi" and "Botamochi"?

I read a book I borrowed from the city library for my children last night.

It was a story that an old man dropped "ohagi" at his garden while he was eating and in fact it was a baby of ohagi  then it was raised by the insects which lived there.

They enjoyed the story but they didn't know about "ohagi" so I explained about it for them.

"Ohagi is the Japanese sweet. It is a rice cake covered with red bean paste and we usually eat it while Ohigan."

"What is ohigan?"

My 6-year-old son asked me.

Ohigan is the week during both the Spring and Autumnal Equinox which we visit to our ancestor's grave."

In the story, the baby of ohagi met the "botamochi" family.

Since ohagi looked just like botamochi, they became very friendly and decided to live together.

And the note regarding about ohagi and botamochi was written in the end of the book.

The generally-accepted theory concerning about the difference between ohagi and botamochi is said that ohagi is eaten during the Autumnal Equinox, and botamochi is eaten during the Spring Equinox".

It means ohagi has two names depending on the season.

Botamochi comes from the "Botan" (peony) which blooms in the spring and ohagi comes from the "Hagi" (Japanese bush clover or Lespedeza) which blooms during autumn.

I knew that ohagi and botamochi are the same but I didn't know the meaning of their differences, so I was so impressed.

I like reading children's books and I think that reading them is very valuable not only for my children but also for me.

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