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Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Mumma and Dadda

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Hello everyone! This week I noticed something very odd, when I went out with mumma for shopping I saw all the shops were decorated with hearts and ribbons. The gift shops were selling heart shaped balloons, teddies and many more things. I have seen the shops before but they didn’t look like this; so I asked mumma why all the shops were decorated like that all of a sudden? Mumma said it’s because Valentine’s Day is approaching.

Valentine’s Day! What is it? Why do we celebrate it? I started asking mumma all kinds of questions about Valentine’s Day. I also saw a baby with an arrow in hand. So I asked who he was; mumma said he was cupid! She said she’ll answer all my questions once we get back home.

We came back home after an hour or so and I was very excited about knowing what was it all about. When I asked mumma again, she said we celebrate Valentine’s Day to show our love for people close to us. It is about expressing our love by sharing gifts like heart shaped balloons, teddies and other mementos. When I asked her about the baby with an arrow in his hand, mumma said he is called Cupid and there is a small story linked with him.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Psyche, she was so beautiful that everyone praised her whenever they saw her. There was another woman named Venus, who was very jealous of Pysche’s beauty. So she called upon Cupid, who was able to make people fall in love by shooting arrows. Venus asked him to shoot her with his arrow, so that she falls in love with the ugliest man in the world. Cupid went to do what Venus told him, but when he saw Psyche he was mesmerised with her beauty and accidentally shot himself with the arrow and fell in love with Psyche. This is reason why we associate Cupid with Valentine’s Day since he loved Psyche and lived happily with her ever after.

The story was so nice. I told mumma that even I want to celebrate Valentine’s Day and she agreed. We decided to make a nice Valentine’s Day card for dadda and buy a surprise gift for him also. We will also buy lots of balloons and decorate our home with them. Mumma told me she will get me sketch pens, glitters and coloured papers, so that I can make a beautiful card for dadda. She said that most people buy cards, but people feel special if we make something for them. I love dadda very much and I will make a card for him all by myself.

When I go to my nursery school, I will ask my friends how they will celebrate their Valentine’s Day. I will also tell them that I am planning a surprise for dadda and after that he will love me even more. Mumma said we can celebrate with everyone we love, so I will make a card for my best friend also. Happy Valentine’s Day to you too!

 

Helping Mumma and Dadda with Christmas Decorations!

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December is my favorite month. My city looks so vibrant, colorful and positive unlike the rest of the year. There is cheerfulness and happiness in everyone around.  The lights on the houses, the big red bows in department store windows, and the bright reds and greens all over the restaurants makes me so happy from within that I keep telling Dadda that I want to spend the night in the streets and explore the city.  This is my second Christmas and I told Mumma and Dadda to buy me decorative items so that I could decorate our house. So here we go shopping for our Christmas decorations!

To begin with our Christmas celebration Dadda told me the significance of the festival. We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with traditions drawn from Christianity as well as other ones personal to our own family. Each family I know follows many of the same traditions as we do. My Christmas is special because of these very traditions which we have formed as a family, like having meals together and decorating our houses to name a few. He also told me about Santa clause one who comes from as far as the North Pole in a carriage flown by reindeers and distributes gifts to children. Now I am a little worried about who will tell Santa Clause what I want as a gift. Dadda told me not to worry about it as he understands our wishes through our prayers. So I am a little relieved!

Nonetheless we begin with buying a special new tree decoration. Christmas spirit is everywhere with the onset of December, the shops play festive music and are usually decorated down to the last detail. Mumma said we should also focus on outdoor Christmas tree decoration. For that we need Electric lights which are a great choice for outdoor Christmas tree decoration, because electric lights are durable, and they add color and light to the winter landscape. Dadda then bought me banners, mantle garlands, grapevine and fruit wreath, candles, decorative balls, boxes and many more.

All three of us started with our Christmas tree decorations. We started with the lighting. Then we proceeded with hanging the wreath of grapevine around the tree. Small gift boxes, bulbs, ribbons, bells adorned our beautiful tree. I was spellbound with our creation. We even made orange cloves by wrapping a ribbon around the orange, twisting at the base, to divide the orange into quarters. This was very exciting as I tried this technique out for the first time.

Besides decoration Dadda and Mumma have decided to distribute gifts like sweets, chocolates, greeting cards, Christmas trees, decorative things, etc to the family members, friends, relatives and neighbors. They said that we would enjoy more if we celebrate with everyone around as the festival is about spreading happiness. We have also made a list of activities like games, songs to play and list of invitees whom we would be inviting at our home for Christmas. Come lets us all celebrate and spread the message of peace and togetherness around.