Saint Valentine's Day

This year's Saint Valentine's Day fell yesterday on Saturday this year.
Customary, female office workers give chocolates to their colleagues in Japan, but I saw a few workers giving out chocolates in my office on Friday, one day before Valentine's Day.

I guess this year’s sales amount of chocolates decreased a lot due to both an economic downturn and that it’s on Saturday.

My wife Kiyono made a strawberry chocolate cake for me, for herself and for our daughters.

Since younger daughter Rina went to track and field club camp to Ibaraki prefecture yesterday, we three (Kiyono, Emi and I) ate it together.

Never mind, we left a part of it for Rina. It was really delicious.

Emi and Rina are baking chocolate cookies at kitchen now. They are planning to give them to their friends tomorrow.

Unfortunately, Emi goes to girls’ high school, so she does not have boy friends whom she gives them to.














Rina goes to coeducational junior high school.
She is confident to receive lots of returns from her boy friends.
It’s good investment for Rina. lol.

What do you do on Valentine's Day?

Saint Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day falls on February 14.
Same as the last year, my daughters spent a very busy week before the day. They bought chocolates, wrapping paper and cards to make gifts to their friends; I guess they gave more than ten boys and few girls. I don’t know the difference in taste, though they reshaped the chocolates. They chopped chocolates into pieces, melted them and poured them in small heart-shaped aluminum foil cups. Then put two tiny candy chips and wrote a mouth with white chocolate paste on the top of each chocolate piece.
Since the color of the surface on those chocolates had turned whitish, sigh, they did the very same work again in the late evening on one day before the target day.
It’s very hard work, but seeing them do the job with pleasure relieved me a lot. Anyway, how many years do they do this hectic ceremony in this season…lol?