Japanese Girl's Day
In an effort to help my kids remember their heritages, I try to celebrate some of the holidays from Japan and Korea alongside Vietnamese and American holidays when I'm aware of them. I recently found out that today is Hina Matsuri or Girl's Day in Japan. Of course, we've have to celebrate, even if I have to make things up as I go. Growing up Vietnamese American, I have little experience with what people in Japan do to celebrate Girl's Day. So with a little help from the internet, I've come up with a few things so far. In Japan dolls and special foods are the order of the day (according to wikipedia). I'm thinking of taking Evie to a toy store and letting her pick out a (non-Barbi, non-Bratz) doll and perhaps a few books from our local bookstore followed by dinner at a Japanese restaurant. In other words, a girls evening out with just me and Evie. J, when approached with this idea gallantly declared that he and JT, being "manly men", will be able to handle themselves. ("[We'll] kill our food, stuff it in the microwave, and eat its guts," according to J.)
Evie has no clue that anything special is being planned, it's just a regular school day for her. I can't wait for her to get home and surprise her.
5 comments:
What a lovely idea, I'm sure Evie will absolutely love spending time her Mommy, lucky little girl. I hope you have a great time.
Oh so sweet! So, what did you guys end up doing? Evie must have LOVED it. And JT must have LOVED being a manly man too. :)
WHAT FUN!!! Ah, those manly men...
Yeah, tell us all about it! I'll bet Evie was thrilled!
Cool! How'd it go? We put out our dolls on Monday morning. I meant to link to this blogpost on RD yesterday but got lazy.
you're so good about maintaining culture in the lives of your kids. i still need to teach ash more chinese and don't even get me started on taiwanese. i think you're doing a great job at this HARD parenting thing.
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