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Only a few hours left of 2010. What happened this year? Time to look back and ponder. January: I was really out of work for the first time in my life and had to report to the employment office. Not fun.I did have some fun though. Dinners with good friends and family and a wonderful brunch at Långbro Inn with friends as well as a performance by H.E.A.T at Honda Center here in Väsby. February: Meeting with my workcoach, applying for several jobs, visiting my friend in Norrtälje, again dinners with family and friends. Danniel, Bianca and Klaras birthdays celebrated of course. Annual meeting with Rheumatic association. March: I went on an education at Bommersvik in Sormland to become leader for circles. I continued to apply for jobs. I celebrated a friend that turned 80. We had wafles on wafleday at our friends house. April: Mom turned 86 and we, my sis Helen and I,  treated her to lunch at a wonderful restaurant by the lake Malaren. Lots of birthdays in April including my hubb...

 My Mom, Hasse and Emil . We had a really good Christmas Eve with my family. Very traditional in a Swedish way. Everyone came at 1PM and then we ate Christmas lunch/dinner. Everything that is good we had on our table. Ham of course, different kind of herring, egghalves with shrimp"röra", omelett with mushromstew, löjrom, Christmas-sausage, potatoes, beetsallat, meatballs, chipolata sausage, ham-temptation, bread and different kind of cheeses. After that you are totally full I can tell you. So shortly after it's the longest tradition in Swedish Televison - Donald Duck says Merry Christmas. This program is 1 hour long and during that there are candys - homemade fudge, chocolate, fruit and more. While everyone is watching TV I prepare coffee with homemade safronbuns, homemade cookies of different kind and a soft gingerbreadcake that Danniel makes every year. So after Donald Duck is finished Santa comes (in the shape of me) and we get our gifts. Around 5 or 6 PM we ...

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas We have been in Gävle where we had "little" Christmas with our children and grandchildren there. Very nice, very good food (not Christmas-food) and a lot of chatting and laughing. I give you some photos from yesterday and above all I hope you will have a wonderful holiday :-))

What have I done since I last wrote? Well, the last thing I wrote was actually just a recipe. On Saturday the 4th we had Christmas party with the Rheumatic association which was very nice. Good food and good entertainment. But this year there were fewer that came than last year. This has been a fact all year long. Not so many attendants at our meetings. I have tried to figure out why. I think the fact that many sick people get outinsured which means they don't get any money anymore but must try working. In some cases this has been totally devestating!! People with serious cancer forced out to apply for work, people that can't walk nor manage on their own also forced to get a job. This is a new rule. You can be sick for 1 year and in special cases this can get prolonged for another year (I think it is. I don't have the exact dates). Then you have to try to get into the workinglife for 3 months and after that you can get you a doctor's certificate for another year. One...

Pepparkaksbakelser i långpanna   4 ägg 5 dl socker 5 dl mjöl 1 tsk bikarbonat 2 msk kanel 2 tsk ingefära (mald torkad) 2 tsk malda nejlikor 1-2 tsk mald kardemumma 3 dl gräddfil 100 g smält smör Rårörda lingon (glömde det sist men har nu korrigerat in det) Jag hade i kanske 1/2 dl drygt vilket gör att den blir väldigt saftig och god. Garnering: 100 g smör 2 msk pressad apelsinsaft (färsk) Cest från apelsinen (kan uteslutas) 4 dl florsocker Vispa ägg och socker poröst. Tillsätt allt det torra och rör om. Tillsätt gräddfil och smält smör. Blanda väl. Häll smeten i långpanna klädd med smort bakplåtspapper. Grädda i nedre delen av ugnen, 175 grader i 30-45 minuter. Känn efter eftersom ugnarna är olika. Stickan ska vara torr. Under tiden blandar du samman ingredienserna till garneringen och blandar länge med elvisp eller sked. Smöret ska alltså inte smältas utan vara rumsvarmt. Låt kakan kallna innan du brer på garneringen. Skär sedan ...

I know! You're mad because I haven't written since November 18 and you are right to be. My only excuse is that time flies and my days are filled up but that is really not an excuse :-) What have I been up to you ask yourself. Well, here are some of the things I've done.  Some of the participants at the conference The weekend after my last post I went to a chairmen (women) conference that started on Friday and ended Sunday afternoon. It was a great conference and we discussed a lot and we did come to some decisions. Did I mention it was with the Rheumatic association. As always it's the talks that give you the most. The hotel wasn't the best and the food was not at all good but they did have free icecream and popcorn :-) On Tuesday last week I baked safronbuns, a lot of them. because I had invited the members of H.E.A.T, their girlfriends, their parents and some other for 1st Advent celebration and also to welcome Erik G and his family into our wonderful H.E.A...