This year Thanksgiving Day is on November the 23rd, which is also the national holiday for labor thanksgiving in Japan. The Christmas season is also just around the corner!! You can already find the Christmas decoration here and there, walking around on the streets.
I've adorned the entrance with the Christmas ornaments with my husband and daughter:
My children used to go to the kindergarten, in which they go out on Thanksgiving Day to present apples, oranges, and the like for the kindergarten bus driver, the police officer, who works for the neighborhood, and the neighbors, who support children by making a rabbit hutch for rabbits which children feed, or doing any other things. On the day after Thanksgiving, nurses and children start to adorn the inside of the kindergarten with Christmas ornaments. After three advent meetings, they do the Nativity Play on the fourth advent meeting. My elder daughter played the role of the third inn's employee. She actually wanted to play Mary. The nurses arranged so that she can do Mary in the rehearsal, on the very day another girl did it, though. I really appreciated for their consideration. My younger daughter did a shepherd. She only said in the play: "Now! Let's go to Jerusalem along with sheep!"
It was a long story, isn't it? Anyway my children made some Christmas ornaments in those days. These ornaments are also put on the wall for decoration now.
Whenever I adorn the entrance in this season every year, these ornaments they made remind me of those days.
Penguin 