Spring and School

At the start of spring, my  youngest daughter started school as well. This is the playground at the school, the cherry blossoms were in time blooming as a sign of spring early April.

The classroom is decorated with flowers also in time for spring.

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Hanabi-taikai (Fireworks display)

In August, there's the fireworks display festival that we watch with the kids. This is a tradition wherein we dress up in yukatas.

Yukatas are informal, unlined kimono made of cotton and worn with a narrow sash (obi). It is usually worn in summer. Unlike ceremonial kimono, a yukata is casual and comfortable to wear. It can be worn next to the skin. Wooden clogs (geta) are usually worn without Japanese socks (tabi) when wearing a yukata. Today many people wear yukata at summer festivals (matsuri), fireworks displays (hanabi-taikai), and the Bon Festival Dance (bon-odori).You can see us wearing slippers. :D

Pink is a favorite of the kids, no doubt. So most of the time they wore pink for last year's Hanabi, papa and I wore blue.

Happy Pink Friday!

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Pink girls

That pinks are made for girls hold true to my two princesses. Pink jackets, pink bag, even pink shoes.

As per wiki: In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s or earlier. From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary. Since the 1940s, the societal norm was inverted; pink became considered appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century.

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