Nicole's Blog

We are at Sven's parents house now. Today started off with putting up the x-mas tree, always one of my favorite things. It happens pretty much the same way, except that the lights are more like little candles that you clip on the branches. We also put up the decorations. Annica put all her porcelian tomte (santa) in a shelf in a row kinda like what my mom does. Christer also had the fun, but cold, job of putting up the lights outside the house. Just a few around the deck. Not long after he came in it did start to snow which was very nice. Unfortunately that snow turned to rain. It's hard to believe, but I do wish it was a bit colder so it would all be snow instead.


This evening we went over to Ingvor's mom (sven's grandmom) house for a jul celebration. It started off with a wonderful fika. Then we helped out by decorating her tree, but this time with REAL candles. Yep that's right, crazy. After that we made some swedish tree ornaments and other fun crafts. Then we had a bit of jul food. Starting with julskinka (ham) and köttbullar (meatballs, made out of Elk & beef). They were so good! After that we had what I think is closest to hot rice cereal, with milk and cinnamon. After all the wonderful food we then opened our julklapp (presents). We got some very yummy looking homemade jam. When we got back tonight it was time to make jul candy and bread for tomorrow. It all smells very good here right now. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow ...