December 27, 2006

Happy belated Christmas

Today´s Swedish word: helg. Means holiday like Christmas, Easter etc. but also like in weekend

Oooops, unexpected hiatus there but blogger refused to work on the computer at my parents´ house. I have had a wonderful, calm Christmas with my parents, sister and brother and various cats and cows, as usual. We go for a very calm Christmas in my family, it is just us for Christmas lunch (and my mother´s food really is the best) and in the evening my aunts with families and my grandmother comes for coffee and my mother´s cakes and cookies (which also are the best by the way). In late evening we go to church, like almost everyone else in the little village. I am not very religious, but singing the old hymns and listening to the Bible verses on Christmas is really special for me.

On Christmas day my man and my sister´s fiancé arrived and we have spent the days since almost constantly eating our way through the fridge. Now I am back in our flat and our kitchen and am looking forward to being off work for another 12 days which will give me more than enough time to make up for my lack of posting these past weeks, for example about wonderful salads and green cabbage frittatas and the huge pile of Italian delicacies I got from my sister and brother for Christmas...

5 comments:

KrakelSpektakel said...

God jul, i efterskott.

Lynn Barry said...

Thanks for helping me learn Swedish!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Lynn (Axelson) Barry

Anonymous said...

Be very thankful that you have family close by to celebrate special times with, Kristina. Wishing you a Happy New Year! May 2007 be good to you.

Anonymous said...

And a very Happy New Year! So glad you blog!!

Libbycookie said...

Sounds like a lovely holiday! I look forward to reading your vacation blogging...as I sit at my desk in the office...