I spent this holiday with my mother in my home town, which is in Iwata city, Shizuoka prefecture. Many people living in Tokyo (or other big cities) go back to their family home during New Year's holiday. My brothers and I gathered at our mother's home and we threw a nabe party on New Year's Eve.
That party was extravagant. My uncle sent us a king crab ("taraba-gani" in Japanese). One of my brothers, who had lived in California last year, brought a bottle of California wine. My mother prepared kimchi-nabe (Japanese nabe with Korean pickles), and a bottle of Shimeharizuru-daiginjo, which is one of the best grades of Japanese sake.
I was happy, because my mother seemed happy. My father passed away more than 8 years ago and she had lived alone since then. So, she had been looking forward to the party with her sons.
The party wasn't the only thing that made her happy. She became a grandmother last year because my wife gave birth to a baby girl last October. Every time she saw my baby, she smiled and said she wanted to show my baby to her husband in heaven.
On January 2nd, I went to a doll shop with my mother, my wife, and my wife's mother. It's a custom in Japan that people who have daughters put up hina dolls in their house on March 3rd every year. My wife's mother bought us the dolls below as a present. I'm really grateful for it!
It was a good holiday. And I wish this year will be a good year.
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