– as I see it..
Happy new year everyone! Gott nytt år!
It’s raining but we have some snow and we have a great time! Tonight all 27 will be gathered around the dinner table. But first we have a birthday party with coffee and cake to look forward to.
Oh and we played against Russia today. 3-2! Let’s hope we can keep it up now when the serious part of the wc begins. Life is pretty good!
Our turn to arrive to Gopshus – tonight 21 of our closest friends gathered together around the dinner table. Tomorrow all 27 will have arrived.
Now a nice evening among friends awaits – filled with games and laughter.
As you can see the equipment is very modern.. feels like we have been transferred back to another decade!
Third game for Tre Kronor junior team from Sweden – today against Norway. They might be the better nation in cross country skiing but not in hockey. Oh, the game just came to an end – we won with 10-0!!
The boys went to see a movie for their Christmas gift certificates. It was a complete caos over there – no parking anywhere. A good movieday obviously. It was mad at the grocery store too – had to park one block away..
It’s been a quite sunny day with no rain for a change and this morning it was freezing outside.
A lovely dinner at my parents-in-law – boxing day dinner moved to today due to us being poorly.
A quiet last weekend of the year with awful weather – fortunately a lot of sports on tv to enjoy with good results both in the giant slalom and hockey (we won today again – yeah!).
A grey rainy day off from work.. hmm.. what could be better than to cuddle up in my corner, with my coffee and knitting and watch an old movie or two?
Oh – this is the reward of course – I have been to the supermarket, done lunch and started packing for new years. Soon I will start a nice Friday dinner – ribs and steak with french fries. Yum.
Boxing day.. but no boxing today (lol) – ice hockey though! The junior world championships begins today and the tournament is held here in Sweden, in Malmoe. We have a silver from last year in Ufa, Russia and a gold from the year before when we won in Calgary.
We were supposed to have dinner tonight at my parent-in-laws but half of my family is sick so we decided to postpone the dinner a day or two. So a quite different boxing day for us this year. I made a wok for dinner with chicken and noodles to have something other than left-over Christmas food – lol. It was appreciated by everyone I think.
Now I am sitting comfy in my corner ready to cheer on our junior team – let the tournament begin and may the best team win!
We started today with Christmas mass in church – is was very nice to get a moment together. Still dark and rainy though.
Christmas day dinner we always enjoy at my parents. A nice tradition which we started after we began to celebrate Christmas eve at ours.
Merry Christmas!
Christmas eve – we have celebrated this day in our house every year (except one) since we bought it back in 1997. We all contribute to the dinner table and enjoy a nice meal. But first we watch the yearly Disney hour together and have a glass of glögg which is a molded wine served hot. Then after dinner we open the presents – this year limited to the kids only – and finally we have coffee and a fruit sallad.
Thank you all for making this such a special day filled with tradition created by us together. Let’s hope we can enjoy many more Christmases like this – but hopefully with snow instead of rain. Next year my sister w/ fam will join us too – they do every other year!
Be safe everyone and God Jul!
Vaccumed the house and tidying some more.. then a burger in the mall before the boys went up to their grandparents to bake gingerbread cookies (a lovely tradition) while I looked around in the stores. Then we enjoyed a nice coffee together when I picked them up.
Now a moment to myself before I will start dinner. New knitting project to dig into – can’t wait!
The forth candle is lit and the ladder is completed. A nice relaxing Sunday so far with a quiet time in my corner cheering on the Swedish giant slalom team and other winter sports. That will change in a minute and we will go to the mall for some last minute shopping.
It is a rather sunny day with temperatures well above freezing. No snow or winter feeling at all except for the darkness. But now we are heading towards longer days after the breakpoint yesterday. Yeah!
