For Sophies birthday, Lucy had arranged so that six of her friends surprised her for a dinner at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. I was treated to a delicious and fancy 4-course meal in a lovely venue, and then (more) drinks in the hotel bar, with an exquisite view (of the royal castle, for one). It was incredible. And it was so nice to see the girls, everyone had children and moved away from Stockholm, so I hadn’t seen anyone in six years!
Thanks for the evening, ladies ❤
In the beginning of January, it started snowing like crazy in Sweden, and it’s still on the ground. It’s slippery and difficult to walk to the train (and the trains are either delayed or cancelled when the snow hits), but it is beautiful ❤
We take turns in the area to maintain the roads, clear the snow and put down sand. Aaron did a great job when it was our week 🙂
We had such a long, cozy, relaxing and wonderful Christmas holiday, with almost three weeks off work. Sure, we were ill for the most of the time, but a little throat ache and coughing couldn’t stop us from enjoying ourselves. And we played a LOT of Gears.
In Sweden, you celebrate Christmas on the 24th. So, that day, we had traditional Swedish food, so called “julbord”. Aaron liked it ❤
We opened most presents on Christmas Eve, but saved a couple for Christmas day. We gave each other some nice things ❤
On Christmas day, we had a traditional English Christmas meal, with home-made Yorkshire puddings and all. Always DELICIOUS (and way too much food xD)
Look at my new, lovely Harry Potter Christmas tree ornaments ❤
On New Year’s Eve, we decided to stay home and buy a lot of nice picky food and just drink bubbly and watch the fireworks at home (and play Gears). First year in the new house and all ❤
We toasted and kissed at midnight, and sat (warmly dressed) outside on the porch and watched the fireworks. It turns out there is LOADS to watch here, so that’s awesome!
Movies we watched over the Holidays: Die Hard 1, Die Hard 3, all the Harry Potter movies, Trading Places, Love Actually, Notting Hill, Sex and the City movie 1, Groundhog Day and Dogma. It’s been a wonderful Christmas holiday ❤
We, finally, put up our new wallpaper in the living room on Sunday. This is like the sixth time I’m doing it, so there were no problems. It takes some time though. While we were at it, we also made sure to put up and decorate our Christmas tree, and made the house look nice in general.
We are insanely happy with how the wallpaper turned out, and we are READY for Christmas ❤
I have been working insanely hard lately, and finally my courses have ended, on December 19. Because I had two teachers sick, I had to take over their classes, trippeling my workload. But now, all the grades are sent in and delivered, and I am celebrating my long Christmas holiday (back on Dec 5!) with cheese and crackers and BUBBLY.
We also finished Homeland with perfect timing. On to the next show! A few days of getting the house ready, and then it’s time for CHRISTMAS.
After extensive work on the design, these two babies were ordered from a website that makes any photo or picture into a wallpaper (with your custom made size):
Just WAIT until you see what we are planning (moahahahahahah)!
We have been stuck forEVER on the challenge to score 400 000 points on this level on Peggle. But, yesterday (while we are lying sick and dying, AGAIN, by the way…), Aaron managed to get one hell of a ball, collecting almost 200 000 score and at least two extra balls, and we completed the level! Wooop!
Both Peggle and Peggle 2 are highly recommended if you are looking for a super fun and ADDICTIVE game (especially 2)!
We went to a church in central Stockholm in November and attended an annual jazz concert, where my dad plays.
I haven’t been for years, and hadn’t seen some of the musicians and singers for an equally long time, so it was great. Plus, I got to show Aaron what my childhood was like.
My dad on the piano, still going strong even though he’s over 85 ❤
The four Sundays before Christmas, Swedes lights candles, drinks special Christmas spicy wine, eats Christmas saffron buns and gingerbread, and of course we put up lights in the windows, and the star of Bethlehem (I think that’s what it’s for, anyway).
And we got this to put on the door, I love it ❤
