Epiphany
Yesterday, when my kids were a little bored I asked them: ‘It’s the 6th of January, right?’. ‘Yeah’, they said. ‘Then it is Driekoningen (Epiphany or Three Kings’ Day) today’, I told them.
This inspired a lot of activity: Damaris made a cake by crushing Lange Vinger cookies, mixing the crumbs with melted butter and shaping a cake out of the mixture on a gold paper plate. Before we ate the cake (I only did some digging to be honest), she put on whipped cream. Before thinking up the recipe for this desert Damaris said she wanted to make something that grown-ups would think was ridiculous but that children would love. I think she succeeded very well and the effect was great!
Of course she hid some beans for us to find in the cake to determine who would be the Kings, except we didn’t have any beans. Emil came up with the solution: 3 Lego blocks in the same colors as the paper crowns he was making for the lucky Kings. I made a drawing of the three kings in the traditional colors as well. At school Damaris and Emil learned that the first king (Melchior) is red, the second one (Balthazar) is blue and the last one (Caspar) is green (and also black). When they see the three kings portrayed somewhere with different colors, they say it is completely wrong and crazy. They are funny that way!
O yeah, who got the beans? Frederik found the red one, Emil blue, and Damaris got the green Lego block. I got a yellow king that Emil made to comfort the one person that wouldn’t find anything. And I didn’t have to finish my plate said Damaris. They are sweet that way too!
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