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Yeste rday we returned home af ter being in Gavle for 3 days celebrating both Christmas and birthdays. We had a lovely time. When we c ame on Christmas Day we had to split our family into two different slee ping arrangement. We are quite a big lot. So me, J and M slept at G's place an d E and H slept with St and Le. But we all had our meals at St's and Le's place. First day G had made food and we had a wonderful Chili con carne followed by a chocolate cake with whipped cream. Yummie! The younger ones of the family played card and had a lot of fun because we heard lots of laughs. After that we had glogg and gave gifts which was popular of course. Everyone seemed happy except for O who I had bought a sweate r for and it was way too large. Wrong size! I don't know how that happened because I know his size. I blame it on the Christmas stress, lol. Time flies when you're having fun so at midnight we went to G's flat to sleep. Next day Boxing Day it wa s sale all o...

Hope you all are having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. We have just waved goodbye to my sister and her kids, my Mom and O and 2 of my sons. As always you eat too much, you talk and sing a lot. And of course the presents are wonderful. I think everyone appreciated my food and my baking. I took a lot of photos but most of them was very bad. Doublephotos and I don't know what went wrong. My camera usually taked good photos but today I don't know. Tomorrow we are off to Gavle to celebrate yet another Christmas but also 2 birthdays. Wherever you are and whatever you do I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Today we decorated our Christmas tree. Isn't it lovely? I'm pretty pleased anyway. I thought I was done shopping but no. I had to go out and find Mom a purse. She has been wanting that for a while so I found her one. I hope she likes it. I have also done Stifado, a greek casserole, that we are going to have for dinner tomorrow. I also did chicken meatballs with bacon inside. I have never done that before and I made them up. They were actually pretty good. Tomorrow my friends I and K is coming together with our "grandchildren" so you can call it "little Christmas". They are coming for coffee in the afternoon and in the evening J will come and make his famous "kola". I don't know if D is coming tomorrow night or if he's only going to be here on Christmas Eve. He's welcome whatever he wishes to do. I also emptied my safety at work today. Went to the bank and put all the money in so now that's gone too. I have to go to work tomorrow tho...

It's getting closer to Xmas by the day and today I wrapped all the Xmasgifts. That's hard work but fun and I put on Xmas CD's to get in the mood. It worked. My sister J wrote yesterday and wanted me to have photos of the dishes I make but we ate it too fast I didn't have time but I did manage to take a photo of some of the things I have baked. It's safronbuns, chocalatecookies, oatmealcookies and gingerbread biscuits. This is also the shortest day of the year and the longest night but we actually had sunshine today for the first time in a very long time. I went out with Hilma for a walk which was nice. It was high fresh brisk air. Wonderfully easy to breathe. Tomorrow work again then home to put up the Christmas tree and decorate it. Because on Tuesday our adopted "grandchildren" T and T is coming over with I and K. We are having coffe and my homemade cookies and buns and then of course Christmas gifts for the children. In the evening the big boys will co...

Today has been all about Christmas preparations. I started out this morning by waking up (good move) and having a wonderful breakfast. After that I took a shower and looked at the computer. Then it was time for "Melodikrysset" which is a crossword with music questions in the radio. H and I always do that every Saturday morning. I had a bowl of porridge and then I went out in the shopping jungle. Yes, you really could say it is these days. Do you know when I came to our mall I had to circle around the parkinglog for 15-20 minutes before I got a parking place. And then I had to PAY! Can you believe that? We never used to do that but there are new owners. What's more upsetting was that there were 2 parking guards going up and down and writing tickets. Every other car had one. That is not OK when it's Christmas. I made almost all my shopping, yeah! and I'm very happy about that but it took me a couple of hours. When I returned home I started baking cookies. First I ma...

So now I've worked all week and h ave only 4 working days left at my job. Sad but true. This week has been bittersweet in many ways. There have been a lot of goodbyes probably for the last time but also promises of future gatherings. Today the last class of our college graduated and that was also the end of an era that has lasted for so long. The first school at Rosersberg was the Defence fireschool from 1879 then it turned into Civil defence school from 1961 and 1986 it became SRSA College. So closing down something that has been functioning since 1879 for me seems idiotic but I'm not the one making the decisions. Today I started (and this is early, I normally shop the day before) Christmas shopping. Both gifts and food! How about that? I managed to shop for our "grandchildren", my sister's son, O and some of my son's gifts. That's an achievement don't you think? I also bought most of the food and especially the most important item, the HAM. I choose ...

I wish my sis J a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Although I can't be there to celebrate her I am there in my thoughts and of course I have sent her something :-) We live so far apart, she in La Mirada LA,CA and me in Sweden. It's not that often we meet and since we just found each other a couple of years ago every time feels so special. That's why this blogging is so good. We can actually share each other's lives although we are far apart. I also share my nieces lives which is wonderful. You get to know them quite well when reading their blogs. Even M, J's husband has started blogging and it's so interesting to read them all. My other sister who lives in Spain I've never met, yet I should say, which is kind of strange since she lives closer but she doesn't speak any English and my Spanish isn't that good so I could speak fluently with her. She also speak Catalan which I don't understand a word of. What's interesting is that my son J will be seeing them...