As I wrote in my last blog, our plan was no Christmas food, no gifts, just relaxation. The thing is we sort of had a change of heart. We were in the grocery store on Sunday afternoon to buy food for the holiday. Looking around we both felt the urge to go traditional on the food.
There we have it, specialty suasages, meatballs, ham, special Christmas pop. Some items are clearly missing but we got the basics. Sam wanted crackers and cheese because that´s the tradition in his family. Of course a lot of candy, chocolate and cookies (thanks to Maxima). We made some phonecalls talking with family so we still felt connected. All in all, we had a good time.
For those of you who can´t read Swedish I have to share this story from my sisters blog:
My sister and her three year old son were watching the Grinch who stole Christmas (Jim Carrey). When they started watching it had already been going for a while, but my nephew got into it and understood the premise. Suddenly he started to cry. My sister thought that he most have become scared of the scary looking and mean Grinch. She shut off the sound and carried him to the bedrum. As she was holding him in her arms trying to comfort him and asked “Why are you crying honey?”
“I feel so sorry for the green cat. I feel sorry for him because they don´t want him”
Johanna said,
December 26, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Thank you for your pictures and for sharing about your Christmas! I feel honored that you decided to translate a part of my blog entry and have it be a part of yours! Thank you. My son, Tobias is a young little boy with deep thoughts and a big heart. He is the apple of my eye!
Vic said,
December 27, 2007 at 8:12 am
Det ser mysigt ut. Snart är det nyår. Hur firar ni nyår? (Om ni gör det. Själv säger jag varje år att jag ska gå och lägga mig. Men det slutar oftast med att jag är vaken över tolvslaget i alla fall…)
Vi har ett julkort till er som ligger kvar här hemma, för vi har lyckats (för femtielfte gången) slarva bort er adress. Fast nu tänker jag att den kanske finns på det där kortet som aldrig kom iväg förut…(Ett välkommen-till-Sverige-kort var det…Varför gör vi så med kort till er?)