Big brother’s world

梅雨つゆで何週間なんしゅうかんも毎日まいにち曇くもりか雨あめが続つづいていた。
そして何週間かぶりに久ひさしぶりに晴はれた日ひのこと。
私わたし:「久しぶりに晴れたねー。」
お兄ちゃん:「え？いつも晴れてるじゃん。」
私:「そんなことないじゃん、今いま梅雨つゆなんだから毎日雨じゃん。梅雨つゆって知ってる？」
お兄ちゃん:「うん、知しってるよ、美味おいしいスープでしょ。」
私:「そっちのつゆじゃないし！」
そういいながら、私は洗濯物せんたくものを干ほしていた。そしてお兄ちゃんが私に、
「お母さん、いつもその服ふく着きてるよねー。」
と言いってきたが、その日の服は、買かってから初はじめて着るワンピースと、何年なんねんかぶりに履はいたレギンスだった。
彼かれの頭あたまの中なかを一度いちど見見みてみたいと思おもう私わたしです。

It was the rainy season and for weeks on end it was cloudy or rainy every day. Then, on the first sunny day in weeks:
Me: “It’s sunny again, isn’t it!”
Big brother: “Eh, isn’t it always sunny?”
Me: “No way, it’s the rainy season (梅雨つゆ） now and it’s raining every day! Do you know what the rainy season (梅雨つゆ）is??”
Big brother: “Ofcourse I know, it’s delicious soup, right?”
Me: “Not that つゆ!”
As I was saying that, I was hanging the laundry out to dry. Then big brother told me:
“Mom, you always wear those clothes don’t you?”
He said that, but the clothes I was wearing that day were a dress I had just bought and put on for the first time and leggings I hadn’t worn for years. I would just love to take a peek at what goes on in that head of his!

WORDS

• 何週間も続いて（なんしゅうかんもつづいて）＝for weeks on end
• 梅雨（つゆ）＝the rainy season
• つゆ＝Liquid soup ex.そうめんのつゆ
• 洗濯物を干す（せんたくものをほす）＝hang the laundry
• ～をちらっと見る（ちらっとみる）＝take a peek at～

REMARKS

久しぶりに
This translates to “for the first time in a long time” and is a very common phrase in Japanese. It is not always possible to translate this phrase directly, hence why in the text above, I opted for several different translations.

In Japanese, you will use　久しぶりに especially often when meeting people after not seeing them for some time, eating something you haven’t had in a while and when you visit a place you haven’t been to in some time.