Happy New Year!

I wish you will have a great year.

As my husband and the oldest son have come home, all of my family members got together at the New Year's day. We celebrated the first and the second day of the New Year with otoso and osechi.

Otoso is sake, or Japanese rice wine with the taste of tososan, or several Japanese dried medicinal herbs. Every year end, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, a very famous Shinto shrine in Kamakura, send us a pack of tososan for New Year's celebration and I use it. Osechi is Japanese traditional New Year's food for celebration. We eat it during sanganichi, or first three days of the New Year. As it is prepared by the New Year's Eve, housewives are not necessary to cook until sanganichi is over.

On the first New Year's day, we visited my husband's parents home and went to a shurine nearby. We made a wish for the happiness of the family members and draw omikuji, a lot telling a forture. As it said " DAIKICHI" , an exellent luck, I'm sure a lot of good things are coming this year.

Today, we visited my father's home. All of my brother and sisiter's family got together and had a great time eating gorgeous meal.