Day II

Again we are VERY satisfied! Loads of fish, again, including fish eggs, smetana and onions, our favourite. Goes so well with rye bread too! It's been good and comfortable, just being together.
We thought of maybe still taking a walk to the cemetery to light candles for the loved ones. I think this tradition is important, and it's always so beautiful when hunderds of candles are lit. It's a sea of light, just beautiful.

Christmas Eve!

This is how our Christmas Eve looked like! We were at my sister's, had eggnogs, porrige, sauna, a walk with the beautiful dog. My sister makes the world's best eggnogs, oh so sweet! We prepared the dinner and sat down, ate the specialties of Christmas, the many fish, the Waldorf salad, all the traditional food, and just took time to enjoy! Such a beautiful Christmas Eve with the closest family, felt so good!
Today we'll be at home with our own gang, just unwind and start fixing another big Christmas feast! Sweet thoughts to you all, now's the time to rest and enjoy! Hugs and kisses everyone!

Wrapping up the presents!

This is one of my favourite things when it comes to Christmas: wrapping up the presents! I start in the morning when it's still all quiet, light up the candles in the tree and take over the entire livingroom! I put on some music and take out all my gift wrapping arsenal! It's such a sweet moment just for myself and the close ones I'm wrapping the gifts for! I don't exactly know how sound I might be about this but I blame my sister who started this years ago with her beautiful wrapping papers and ribbons! Here's the result this year:

The Christmas Tree

It's here and it's so pretty! We've had joulutorttu and piparkakku and now it's just wonderful to sit on the sofa and look at it! I feel good after a busy day of taking care of things and preparing. Soon I'll turn in, a good night's sleep is guaranteed! Sleep tight!

Ginger bread!

This is what's been going on over here! I've started early already, prepared food and baked at the same time!
We're getting the tree today, yey! This time it's different though, we usually get our Christmas tree from our summer house, but now there's so much snow that going into the woods is just impossible. It's been such a beautiful thought! But I'm sure we'll get a fine tree from the market place too! Sweet thoughts everyone!