Mother's day

My husband and I worked yesterday, so I asked my parents to come and take care of our children.

They went to the zoo.

Since it was a sunny day, I thought my parents would be tired.

After I finished working, I bought sushi for them and gave it to them for dinner, so that my mother didn't have to prepare for dinner.

Since it was mother's day yesterday, the seal had written on it " Thank you Mom" the package of sushi.

They ate it and went home.


After a while, my husband came home.

"Here you are."

He gave me a box.

"What is it?"

I asked.

"They are Kashiwa-mochi and Yomogi-mochi. It is mother's day today, isn't it? It is for you."

Kashiwa-mochi is a rice cake wrapped in a Japanese emperor oak leaf.

Yomogi-mochi is a mugwort rice cake.

Both of them are often made in spring.

"Oh, thank you! Actually, my children didn't make any presents for mother's day at the nursery school and children's house. So I didn't get any presents from them this year."

I told him.

"Really? Hey! Didn't you make anything for mom this year?"

He asked them and they answered while watching TV:

"No!"

My husband was surprised to hear that and said:

"What?? Hey, let's draw mom's picture right now!"

"You don't have to!"

I told them.

"Maybe it is because the principal of the nursery school and children's house changed in April. They might have changed their policy or forgotten about it. Anyway, It doesn't matter. To take care of them is my duty, so they don't have to say thank you for me now.  If they thank me from the bottom of their heart after they grow up, I will be happy."

In my case, I deeply appreciated my mother after I got married, especially after my children were born.

Actually, maybe mothers don't want anything if their children are happy.

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Yearning for Old Fashion

My 5-year-old daughter's fever finally went down yesterday, but my husband still has a fever.

Maybe because he didn't get the flu shot.

Since they needed to rest at home, I accompanied my 7-year-old son's practice of riding a bicycle.

Then we went to the city library to return and borrow some books, then we went to the bookstore.

I bought him a book named "Doraemon the latest secret tools encyclopedia" as a prize of winning the Karuta competition held in his class before.

(I wrote about it in my previous post : http://a-o-j-m.blogspot.jp/2016/02/good-day-and-bad-day.html )

He had wanted it for a long time, so he was glad to have it.

1600 kinds of secret tools are introduced with their pictures in the book, and he enjoys drawing them looking at the book.


When we went out of the bookstore, I told my son:

"Can I stop by the Seven Eleven (convenience store)?"

"Sure. You want doughnuts, right?"

I was impressed that he was able to guess my idea.

"Yes. When we went to the Seven Eleven before, the doughnuts were already sold out. Do you remember it? I have wanted it since then."

We drove to the nearest Seven Eleven.

"What? Oh no! The store has been already closed! When did they go out of business?"

I was really surprised because I didn't notice the store closing even tough I passed in front of the store by car when I went to work.

We decided to go to another Seven Eleven.

"Oh my goodness! This Seven Eleven was also closing-out. Well, can we go to another Seven Eleven again? I DO want the doughnuts!"

I told him, and he said:

"OK! I want to eat the doughnuts, too!"

He seemed to enjoy this trouble.

We drove to another Seven Eleven again.

We reached there and went into the store.

"Look mom! There are doughnuts!"

"But... the Old Fashion ( a name of the doughnut ) is already sold out. I like it very much. If you are OK, can we go to another Seven Eleven again? After coming this far, I DO want to eat the Old Fashion! I know there is a Seven Eleven which opened recently near here. So let's go there!"

I drove my car about for 5 minutes, then we reached the Seven Eleven.

"I hope we can buy them this time!"

We went into the store.

"Wow! We finally found the Old Fashion! I will take three, please."

We finally bought them!

My son and I were glad together.

After we came home, we told my daughter and husband:

"We bought doughnuts! Let's take a break. But it's already 5pm!"

My children and I enjoyed eating the doughnuts of our wish.

Poor my husband didn't want to eat them as I expected because he still had a feer and couldn't taste.

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