節分/Setsubun

節分でしたね。暦の上ではそうですが本当に暖かくなってくる春が待ちどうしくなりますね。妊娠５ヶ月に入った私は腹巻が欲しくて日本から送ってもらいました。荷物の中に小さい袋の福豆が入っていてアヤネがその袋に興味を持って開けろと言うので開けてやりました。食べるのか!?と見ておりますとちょっとまわりをむしり始め食べ始めました。吐くかな?と思ったら「もっともっと!」と言ってムシャムシャ食べ始めました。帰ってきたクリスにも言ったら「だって美味しいもん！ポップコーンみたいだ。」だそうです。豆まきが出来るのが楽しみです。

February 3rd is SETSUBUN in Japan. If you are 30, you are supposed to eat 30 roasted soybeans so that you can bring luck in. We also throw beans from the entrance of the house toward someone pretending the demon so that we will get rid of the evil spirits in your family and also throw beans into the house to bring the luck in. Well, it was manageable for me to eat 10 or 16 soybeans but they are not easy to eat like 35 peanuts. I cannot eat 35 soybeans. It's not that great taste. My mom sent me a package from Japan and also packed small packages of soybeans called FUKUMAME and Ayane wanted to open the package so I opened it. I was wondering her reaction when she eats it and imagining her spitting out, but she starting asking more and start munching. Daddy also thinks roasted soybeans wasn't that bad!? He thinks it's more like popcorn. I cannot wait the next year SETSUBUN so that we can do the throwing beans event and enjoy eating 2 soybeans for Ayane, 36 soybeans for mommy and 35 for daddy next year.