Besides it being the birthday of my youngest brother (Happy Birthday Brian!), January 6th marks the day of the "Three Kings", or "Tres Reyes" in hispanic countries. While Jon was on his two year mission in Argentina, this became a favorite tradition of his. Off and on over the years we have celebrated this holiday, and then several years ago we decided to make it a yearly tradition. The children set out their shoes with grass or grain to feed the camels, and then are left a present. We also celebrate by telling the story of the Wise Men who visited the baby Jesus after some time passed since his birth. A few times, we have even left a note to the Wise Men of how we are going to follow Jesus that coming year (kind of like a new year's resolution bit too). We end with "Rascon De Reyes" (Kings cake or bread) as our special dessert, with hot chocolate.
This year I also made a dinner with some things Jon remembered eating in Argentina- Chicken Milanese, tomato and onion salad, and rice.
Our "Rascon De Reyes" (this is actually a picture from 2008, this year's was gone before I remembered to take a picture!
The kids enjoyed their gifts:
Tyler got a new basketball hoop
The girls got a new Zhu Zhu pet- our first one!
And Marcus got a new Wii game (Scooby Doo)
Jon and I got a new Tennis Shoes series book- wahoo!
It is fun to have a reason to think about the birth of our Savior again, after all the Christmas things are put away. The story of the Wise Men is truly an inspiring part of the tale and it is fun to focus on it. Here's to many Tres Reyes celebrations in the future!
2 comments:
Sounds like fun. Be warned about that new Tennis Shoes book though-- it's yet another cliff hanger! Arg! Will Chris Heimerdinger ever give us some resolution??!?
That dinner looks delicious!
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