Today, 6th January , it is the Three Kings Day. This marks the final days of Christmas and celebrates the Kings who brought the gifts to the manger on the first night of Christmas, over 2000 years ago.
Now, down to business! There is great excitement among all children, as every household today has bought a Three Kings Cake, called in German, “Dreikönigskuchen”, included with every cake is just one gold crown and hidden inside each cake is just one King! Whoever gets the piece of cake with the King inside, gets to wear the gold crown. The cake is eaten with anticipation, the next bite determines, whether you will be the winner or indeed the loser. Even if you buy two cakes, which I’ve done in the past, there is still no guarantee, you will win second time round!
This brings a huge amount of competition between two boys, as of course, both want to win the King! My six year old son told me to guard the cake, incase his brother rummages through it when no one is looking and finds the King!
In keeping with tradition, today I cleared away the Christmas tree, the Christmas decorations and Christmas cards, and as I did so I thought to myself, it's a wonder there is not war among siblings on this day!
The culprit, a minute white plastic King, shown alongside a normal sized teaspoon!
And the winner this year was:
Hi Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteYes, we also dutifully bought our cake. Alex got the king on his second "bun" and wore the crown all evening and some of the next day. Natalie was pretty peeved.....so we "hid" the plastic king in her piece the next day and that made her laugh!! Talk soon.
Vicky