| Survival of Raising Three Children | "Something like fried chicken" and vocabulary level 1
My youngest child has been accepted into daycare.
On the day of the interview, the teacher said this about my middle child's meal diary.
"It always looks delicious. I've even talked with the other homeroom teacher about how your cooking looks so good, Mom."
Setting aside whether it's actually delicious (bitter laugh), I have continued the habit I wrote about on note before: "making two simple side dishes every day."
Once you turn it into a routine, you find you can whip things up surprisingly quickly.
Recently, cooking has even become a bit of a hobby for stress relief.
But I also told the teacher this story.
It was about when I made a bento for a field trip at the daycare my oldest child attended 10 years ago.
At that time, the homeroom teacher said to me,
"Mom, that thing in the bento today that was like fried chicken..."
I was told.
Back then, I didn't even have the confidence to make fried chicken, and I wasn't even sure if I could call that"fried chicken"with any certainty.
The teacher's description wasn't wrong.
But every time I remember those words, I still laugh.
When I told that story, the current teacher laughed and said, "What a terrible thing to say."
Recently, I saw someone on Instagram posting their bento every day, saying, "I'm bad at cooking, so I want to get better."
The bentos, which were simple at first, gradually became better.
I think continuing something every day is truly important.
And one more thing.
I am remarried, and when I first met my current husband,
"ALOHA, you really have no vocabulary."
my husband told me.
At the time, I hardly read any books and had never thought deeply about vocabulary.
However, I still remember those words.
(H...how mean. I wonder why you married me...)
Until then, I had focused my heart on visual expressions like illustrations and drawings.
But at 40, I realized that words are a very powerful tool that can convey a person's feelings through text alone.
Compared to my cooking, my writing ability is still at level 1.
Even so, I hope to polish it little by little.
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