【自撮りとブログ/Selfies and Blog】お正月の過ごし方/How to spend New Year's Day

*English translations are provided at the bottom of the page.

こんにちは、こんばんはsumomoです(^^)/🍑
今回はブログと自撮りを公開しますね。
ブログの内容は年末、お正月の過ごし方です😊🍊
自撮りは地元で撮影しようと思っていたのですが、うっかり忘れていたので自宅に帰ってから撮影したものを載せますね。

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皆さん、年末年始はどのように過ごされましたか？
お仕事だった方は本当にお疲れ様でした( . .)"
お休みだった方はゆっくり休めましたか？

私は実家に帰省して家族と過ごしました🥰
コタツムリ（コタツから出られなくなってコタツが体の一部のようになる状態）にならないように自宅には置いていないので実家のコタツがめっちゃ心地良かったです🥺✨

コタツムリになっちゃうと頭の先までコタツに潜るタイプなのですが、コタツの中が心地よすぎて外の厳しい世界に出られなくなっちゃうんですよね…。

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年末一番のイベントは母の還暦祝いでした🟥

今年はそういうイベントごとのとりまとめ役（きょうだい3人で1年交代で回している）が私だったので、普段行かないようなレストランの予約や花束やケーキの手配など結構頑張りました(ง •̀_•́)ง🔥

ちなみに予約でもなんでも、電話をするのは昔から苦手です🥹仕事で電話対応するのも予想しないことを言われると焦ってしまうのでできればしたくない😓ﾄﾎﾎ…
文字でのやり取りが一番良い。

大事なことをうっかり忘れちゃうことが多いのでお祝い当日までドキドキでしたが、楽しく終えることができて良かったです！当日のサプライズも出来たし母もきっと喜んでくれただろう🍀😊

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お祝いが済んだあとは特に出かけることも無く家でダラダラと過ごしました😂

皆さんは初詣には行かれましたか？
ちなみに私は三ヶ日でなくても良い派なので1月の中旬に行きました😊⛩
年明け初めての神社ではいつもより神聖な気持ちになりました☺️⸝⸝

2025年が皆様にとって素敵な一年になりますように🙏

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最近思うこと🤔
大人になるにつれて年末年始の特別感が減ったなと感じてしまいます🫢今年はお祝いごとがあったので別だけど、子どもの時は特に何も無くてもワクワクしていた年末年始。自分の中で何が変わったんだろう🤔

家族と集まれた事はとてもありがたい事なんですけどね。家族揃って蟹鍋を食べたりお土産交換したり、コタツでくつろげるのは幸せなひと時です🥰でも昔とは違う気がする🤔

特別感が減ったのは年末年始だけじゃなくクリスマスもなのですが、そのイベントを理解した上でしっかりと準備をしないとただの日常になってしまうのかな。私はそのどちらもが足りていないのかなと思います😖
昔はただ受け身でいても楽しめたけど大人になったらそうもいかないみたいです。

最後まで読んでくださってありがとうございました¨̮♡
まだまだ寒い日が続くので体調には気をつけてくださいね🧣

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Hello, good evening, I'm sumomo(^^)/🍑I'm going to publish my blog and selfie this time. The blog is about how I spent the end of the year and New Year's Day 😊🍊🍊I was going to take selfies in my hometown, but I accidentally forgot, so I'll post the ones I took after I got home.

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How did you all spend your New Year's holidays? If you were working, thank you so much for your hard work ( . .)” For those of you who had a day off, did you have a good rest?

I went home to spend time with my family 🥰I don't have a kotatsu at home, so it was so relaxing to sit in my parents' kotatsu 🥺✨.

※A kotatsu is a Japanese traditional heating table covered with a blanket.

Once I get into the kotatsu I get too comfortable in it and don't want to get out and do the tasks that need to be done 😂.

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The biggest event at the end of the year was my mother's 60th birthday celebration 🟥.

60 years old is called Kanreki in Japanese.
In Japan, 60 years old is considered an important milestone in life.
So, we have a big celebration for our family and friends’ 60th birthdays.

This year, I was in charge of organizing such events (three siblings take turns for a year), so I did my best to make reservations at restaurants we don't usually go to, arrange flowers and a cake, etc. (ง -̀_-́)ง🔥)

By the way, I have always been bad at making phone calls, whether for reservations or anything else 🥹I don't want to answer the phone at work if I can help it because I get impatient when people say unexpected things 😓Text communication, such as by e-mail, is easiest.

I was nervous until the day of the celebration because I often accidentally forget important things, but I'm glad we were able to finish it happily! I was able to surprise my mom on the day and I'm sure she would have loved it🍀😊.

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After the celebration, we didn't go out and spent the rest of the day at home 😂.

I hope you all went to Hatsumode. By the way, I'm of the school of thought that it doesn't have to be on three different days, so I went in mid-January 😊⛩I felt more sacred than usual at the shrine for the first time since the beginning of the new year. ☺️

※Hatsumode is done to thank the gods for the past year and to pray for good luck and fortune in the new year.

I wish you all a wonderful year 2025 🙏!

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What I've been thinking lately🤔

As I grow older, I feel that the special feeling of the year-end and New Year's holidays has decreased 🫢 Except this year because I had something to celebrate, but when I was a child, the year-end and New Year's holidays were exciting even if there was nothing special going on. I wonder what has changed in me🤔.

I am very grateful to be able to get together with my family, though. It's a happy time to eat crab casserole with family, exchange gifts, and relax in the kotatsu 🥰 but I feel it's different from the past 🤔.

It's not just the New Year's holidays that have become less special, but Christmas too, but I guess if you don't understand the event and prepare well for it, it becomes just another day in the life. I think I'm missing both of those things 😖I used to be able to just be passive and enjoy it, but it doesn't seem to work that way as an adult.

Thank you for reading to the end ¨♡It's still going to be cold, so please take care of yourself 🧣.