Mid Autumn Festival
Unlike previous year, this year kids started playing with their lantern one week before Mid Autumn Festival which falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. I have not been buying lanterns for them for about 3 years now. The paper lanterns we had from previous year and the year before is still around. Every year, I have to rant the same thing. How come the rest of the kids all hiding in the house? How come I don’t bump into any kids carrying lantern in the neighborhood? So no fun at all.
My Sister & Nephew
Come to think of that, my own children especially the 8 y/o was not that keen to play with lantern this year. She have the guts to tell me this, “Mummy, I play for 5 minutes only, ok? Later I want to watch Teevee already.” There she goes, at least she fulfilled her culture needs as a Chinese. Can someone please invent a 2 in 1 lantern with a Teevee?
Kids have been playing with this Hello Kitty lantern for the past 3 years. This time, the evil Mummy purposely let the kids abuse the lantern so that they can have a new lantern next year. LOL!
Irene said,
September 16, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
maybe cus it was raining? hehehe… 🙂
kids are too attached to “teevee” nowadays. my lil missy too. sigh 🙁
laundryamah said,
September 16, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
wah luckily my kids still lurve to play lantern..
a-moms-diary said,
September 21, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
So true, no one else was playing with lanterns, except me and my girl!
sue said,
September 26, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
I find that it’s me who end up lighting ALL the candles, making sure they’re all still lighted and etc etc. The children hardly participate unless they can play with candles and hot wax 🙁 By the end of the night, I’ll be sweating like a pig and totally fed to the mozzies.