Amazing Adele

Today my husband and myself drove over to my Mother's to have dinner with family. It was the Day III of our Christmas celebrations. Stomach full, once again, of her cookings! It was so lovely and warm, this has been yet another beautiful Christmas, and I feel blessed to have been surrounded by the people I love the most.

On the way back home we listened to Adele who has absolutely stolen our hearts. I don't remember when was the last time I was so amazed by a voice, must be years ago. She's not a newcomer in our cd-collection, but she just constantly wows me every single time. There was a concert on tv the other night, live in Royal Albert Hall, London, recorded some two years ago, time before her surgery when she'd just hit the jackpot. She was so charismatic and beautiful, just standing there on stage in her beautiful dress and bare feet and sang straight to the hearts of the audience.
To me she's an old soul. I don't understand how a 20-year-old can write songs like that, or sing like that. She's pure gold and I can't wait to hear more, follow her career and just silently feel her move my heart.

You can get a glimpse of her here.

Amazing Adele by aveceva on Polyvore

Goofing around!

For this one I'll let the pictures do the talking.. Have a good evening sweethearts!

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.

Warm things!

                   Santa knew how our old building gets a little cold during winter! I'm all set now!

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!