A Happy New year!!

This is our Osechi

A happy new year!!
How's your new year?

Our family is all well!
We woke up early and watched the sunrise and pray to the sun.

We ate Osechi and Mochi .
Osechi was cooked yesterday.

We prepared Osechi for new year until the day before.
Osechi is a special menu only for the new year.
We serve food in the special lunch boxes.

Each menu has a meaning.

For example,Kuromame(black beans)means if you eat this you will be all fine and can work well.

We went to the book store and McDonald.
This is not a typical Japanese culture for the new year.
That is only our family culture.(culture?)

We usually don't go to McDonald, but our children want to go there.

SO, we go to McDonald once a year.
It's today!!

Our children are so happy because they are given a special toy from McDonald.

I hope this year will be a good year!!