Three Kings Day
Or more properly though, Three Gifts for the King Day I suppose, given in the Bible it doesn’t mention either kings or there being 3 of them LOL. Or go the whole hog and call it Epiphany. Anyway… in reading up about Christmas in Mexico (to do with some stuff we did in Advent) and also in reading The Thirteen Days of Christmas celebrating Three Kings Day was mentioned. Both traditions involved cake, so it sounded good to me. 
This morning me and the boys mixed up a chocolate cake and I put 50p in it just before it went in the oven. The idea is that whoever gets the piece with the item in gets to be King for the rest of the day.
Apart from baking we’ve done computer game playing and we also blitzed the upstairs of the house in terms of dusting, vacuuming (Dysoning? not strictly a vac is it?) and bathroom cleaning. This afternoon we had a drive out which was going to be to the shops to take some pictures for framing, but it was raining so hard when we got there that we only stopped in the DIY shop for some screws and brackets for ashed bench A is making and then drove home again.
We dressed up as Kings then for cups of coffee and the cutting of the cake. M got the piece with the money in and was chuffed not to have to do the setting and clearing of the table for tea this evening LOL.
At bedtime we read the last chapter of The Thirteen Days of Christmas and it feels like we’ve finished off the Christmas season properly now. I like the cake idea, I think it might become a new tradition. The story book was fun too. The story is set in the past and combines the wooing of the main character along the lines of the Twelve Days of Christmas song (in a funny way) with the telling of old traditions and carols for each of the 12 days of Christmas.
And of course there’s Befana, the Italian witch
Comment by Tech — January 7, 2007 @ 12:47 am
i love the 13 days of christmas, nearly read it to SB [my copy from childhood] but thought I’d save it till she was older.
Comment by HelenHaricot — January 7, 2007 @ 1:06 am
Would you have had to keep eating cake until someone found the coin !!!!.
What if you had tried to cut the coin in half? I Know you couldn’t but you would have known who was getting it wouldn’t you.
Comment by Judith — January 7, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Kath, just wondering if you got my email, I think they may be flying straight into spam folders again *sigh*. xx
Comment by Tech — January 13, 2007 @ 10:12 am