Saturday night

VB ordered for australia day! Red wine, garlic bread, pasta bake and Jimmy Barnes on the stereo!

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still winter

We still have winter over here, another 10 cm of snow fell last night. We have been to mum and dads today, again :) it is Jonas birthday today. We had afternoon tea, or coffee I guess, and cake. I also got a few bits and pieces with me home, some clothes and a few table cloths. Mum and dad are cleaning out at their place and are happy to get rid of anything they can. And we are filling up our place, we need a house!

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sourdough time

My jar of sour dough in the fridge has been staring at me for a while every time I open the fridge, I think it has felt a bit ignored in there. So tomorrow it is sour dough time and we are making pizza! And mum and dad are coming over as well to try this delicious dish. I am even making my own tomatoe sauce, it is bubbling away on the stove as I type. I just love it! And tonights bed time story is a new gardening book that I got in the mail yesterday. Oooops there is the beep from the kitchen timer, gotta go!

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test no 2

Uploading a photo. But I think it is time to do something useful now, will play more later :)

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Testing testing

I have bought myself a smartphone and am trying out the blogger app. Supposedly with ads so I wanted to see what it looks like doing it from the phone, maybe there will be more short updates from now on. At least to start with before I get sick of the mini keyboard...

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We went to look at the yellow house yesterday and it is not the house for us, too small and too many little things that needed to be done, it felt like we would only have to fix boring things and be up for some nasty surprises like water damage etc. It looked so promising online and there were heaps and heaps of people on the open viewing, so far there is one bid on it for the asking price. We will continue our search for a house just as perfect as the one on Melville street, just a bit bigger...

This Thursday is a public holiday in Sweden, and a lot of people will take Friday off as well. Not me. Or Stephen. But we might go for a little weekend getaway on Saturday instead. And it is always nice with a day off, there are plenty more public holidays in spring than in autumn here in Sweden.

22nd of December

Last week I went for a girls night at a spa not too far from Dörarp, it was a beautiful place and we went into the wood fired bath tub outside in -18!! degrees. The first time ever I have worn a bikini and a beanie at the same time =) It was beautiful in the bath and we had some fresh fruit and some ginger bread biscuits. The grapes had frozen by the end of it. After the bath I got a hand treatment, not sure what to call it in English but it made my hands a lot less dry and smoother, mum did the same thing as well as my aunt Kerstin. Ulla, mum's cousing and neighbour, got a massage and her daughter Tina who was home from Gothenburg for Christmas got a foot massage. We had a great night! Unfortunately the camera was set to manual focusing when the spa lady took photos of us but I am sure you "get the picture" (that sounded almost too cheesy)

23rd of December

I think I have cracked it, I know how to upload pictures in the right order!!! Touch wood! It wasnt that difficult to be honest, it has to be done backwards, I probably should have figured it out after 18 months of blogging but anyway... It does make sense that you upload them in the order you want them and not backwards, and that they pop up where you are in the writing, but no! They pop up at the start of the post and backwards.

Anyway, back to Christmas and we are at the 23rd of December which is the day when we traditionally decorate the Christmas tree and drink glögg, and apparently eat "Santa porridge". Stephen says he would call it rice porridge, it is shortgrain rice boiled in milk, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and then some more milk for eating it. Click here to see a picture of it.

But before this all started we had a sauna, Stephen has this idea of us having a sauna in whatever house we end up buying, btw we have another one on the radar now, this little beauty! Click on the big picture to see more pictures.

Decorating the tree

Dad serving up some glögg

Jonas finding all sorts of stuff in the box of Christmas decorations, my old Lucia gear.

Mum sorting out some more decorations, these are old ones that my grandparents used to have

This would be me playing with the camera and a "borble" (how is that spelled?? Google says I should call it a Christmas tree ball...)

Here it is from the other side, it is "mine" and Jonas has a similar one that is golden

Mum finishing off the decorations with tinzel

Ho ho ho, merry Christmas!

I think we all went a bit overboard this Christmas, but we (read Emma and Jonas) did get mum and dad some prank gifts as well... hehehe... I think next year we will pay for it...

Christmas Eve

Believe it or not but on Christmas eve I was the first one up! 8am! I started the day with making brownies to bring to Johan and Jill to have with the coffee. They were really really good but we were all so full after the dinner that it was difficult to enjoy, luckily there were lots left over...

Anyway, after making brownies we decided to open the presents and got some really nice things. I got a kitchen mixer thingy like this one from mum and dad, a really nice serving bowl like this one but frosted glass from Jonas, and another nice bowl, same as the one from Jonas but bigger and clear glass, and a electric toothbrush and some new head phones from Stephen. And some other bits and bobs from mum and dad.

Stephen got a pair of gum boots and some whiskey glasses from mum and dad, a new larger tackle box and a lure from Jonas, and I got him some more tools and fishing gear, he is always using not so nice language when filleting the fish with a not so good filleting knife, hopefully that will not happen again unless the new one gets blunt.

After the opening of presents Stephen, mum, and I went for a ski on the lake while Jonas and dad prepared the barbeque for Christmas lunch, a new tradition for this year, I hope we will do it again because it was nice. I guess it will be depending on the weather. After that some of us may or may not have had a nap before we moved on to Johan and Jill's place for Christmas dinner.

All excited and waiting for santa!

Stephen on cross country skis for the first time ever

The new gumboots

Another ski trip, maybe I got the photos in the wrong order after all...

Merry Christmas from mum and dad

Some were turkey sausages to get a piece of Australia for Christmas =)

Uncle Johan carving the ham while the rest of the food is prepared for the buffe

Stephen talking to grandma who accidentaly fell over and broke her wrist earlier when taking a photo of the tree.

My cousin Olle talking to my other cousin Felix's partner

Me and the girls, cousin Ellen to the left and Saga, cousin Felix daughter, to the right.

Some more Christmas food

Almost everyone was there, only cousin Malin missing, and the girls were off inspecting the tree and the presents

Grandpa getting the first present, Stephen, Jonas and I will cook them dinner, I guess Stephen and I will cook and Jonas will be the driver. They have not visited us in Älmhult yet

Saga becoming the princess of the night

Ellen in love with her new hello Kitty toy

Christmas day

On Christmas day we were up early and went to church, it is a bit of a tradition and a lot of people normally go to church early on Christmas day, or at least used to go when it was the old organist and her family together with the "youth" quire that did the singing. Unfortunately for them she has quit because the new priest was not very nice from what I have heard and now it is only a handful of people going. I think it might have been the last time I go as well, it wasnt at all the same warm and welcoming feeling that it used to be. All the more welcoming it was to go to my grandparents for breakfast after. After that we went home for a little kip, before heading out for another ski trip where Stephen got the arms and legs working in harmony. And then he tried ice fishing, finally! I think the fish were off celebrating Christmas somewhere else, no way near the holes in the ice...