A Happy New Year !!

When I was a child , I was very busy for New Year holidays.
I woke up early , ate Osechi which is Japanese traditional home cooking.
There were more than 15 kinds of food which have meanings on each food.
I had to listen the each meanings and eat all kinds of food .
Even I didn't like some.
And I checked an amount of money of a New Year's present my parents gave me.
And I checked how many New Year's cards I received from my friends and read them.
And I did the special New Year calligraphy that is my determination to do something of the year. (　I had to submit it to a school..)
And all my family played Hyakuinissyu which is a New Year's card game in which the players try to match the first and second halves of each of the One Hundred Tanka Poems by One Hundred Celebrated Poets.
Now as I grow up , I can use my time for anything I want .
I can go shopping with my friends and just idle my time away at home for New Year holidays.
But As for me, childhood memories make me feel happy more than my memories in my free time.
So my determination of this year is keep writing my blog.

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子どものころのお正月ってすごく忙しかったです。
早起きして、家でつくったおせち料理を食べて、おせち料理に入ってる食べ物のそれぞれの意味を聞かされて、キライな物があっても食べさせられて….。
それから「お年玉」の金額をチェックして。
それから年賀状が何枚届いてるかをチェックしてから読んで。
それから書初めで今年の目標を書いて（たいていは宿題でしたが..）
家族みんなで百人一種を楽しみました♪

大人になると自分の時間を自由に使えるようになって、お正月でも友達と出かけたり、家でゴロゴロしたり、やりたい放題です。

でもなんだか、子どもの頃のお正月の方が何倍も楽しかったような気がします。
今年の私の目標は「ブログをちゃんと続ける」ということにしました。