The magic of a christmas tree

As I also wrote in the last blog - I love christmas trees! I remember as a little child I was absolutely sure there was something magic with the christmas tree. We always used to decorate the tree at the 23th of December. Well, at first we needed to go out in the woods and find one, and that wasnt always easy. But we always found a tree, the size and look wasnt always the best - but it was a christmas tree, and we all listened to christmas music and decorated the tree.
For many years I used to come down late evening, just to take an extra look at the christmas tree standing there, lightening up the living room, and I would also leave my best stuffed animal (for many year that was a little, white cat) under the tree. Sometimes I even left more than one there too. I was absolutely sure that the magic of the christmas tree would make my animals alive only for that single night! It was my special christmas tradition :-) I dont have many stuffed animales anymore, but I can still feel the magic of the christmas tree, and I am really happy that we got our own tree in our new house!

Danish Christmas

Steen went to Odense to play tennis with some friends. So I thought I would spend some time in front of my computer - and update our new blog. I am sitting in the living room, close to the christmas tree. Its dark outside, and inside too - except for the candles on the christmas tree. I am listening to sweedish christmas musik (Agnetha Fältskog). I love that cd, it is the christmas songs we always listened to when I was a little child, and we still use it when we are dancing around the christmas tree. It makes me feel like its christmas for real :-)

Yesterday I couldnt really get the christmas feeling in the beginning. I missed my family back in Norway so much, and we (steen and I) hadnt really prepared to much for christmas. We got a tree a few weeks ago, but we didnt take time to decorate it before yesterday at 4 pm. That was also the same time we started to prepare for the christmas dinner.



Well, we didnt sleep all day before that. But time flew so fast, we had to buy the last gifts, we went to church and spent some time with Steens grandma at a nursing home.
Then we hurried home and started preparations..... I was very sad at the beginning. It didnt feel like christmas at all. But when the christmas tree was ready I felt much better, and we had a nice evening after all. Steens mum helped us to make tradisional danish christmas food. I dont know what everything is called in english, but we had kind of a rib roast, with potatoes, brown potatoes (prepared in melted sugar), red cabbage and sauce. And for dessert we had ris a la mande and cherry-sauce. It tasted really good, even if we didnt get the dessert before almost 11.30 pm. Danish ris-a-la-mande tastes sooo good!



I got some really nice gifts. Steen bought me a pink woollen sweater from my favourite store - I love it! And from Steens mom I got wool slippers. I am always freezing, so that was a good gift. My parents also sent a gift. It was a very special gift - we got pictures of my grandparents at my mums side, and great-grandparents, and even some pictures from my great-great grandparents. I love pictures, and I have often looked at those pictures when I have been home at my parents house or at my grandfathers house. And now I have some copies of my own. And my dad even sent a family tree, who tells the names, birthdates/places of the persones at the pictures. That was a great gift. We also got a book/cd with norwegian christmas songs. I liked it, but I have to admit I still prefer the sweedish one I remember from I was a little child :-)

As I said it turned out to be a good christmas eve, even if it was very different from what I am used too - it was still good!

Snø, snø, snø

Denne uken har det snødd en masse. Jeg synes det har vært fint, det gir julestemning og det er deilig å oppleve litt ordentlig vinter, ikke bare en masse regn som det pleier om vinteren her i Danmark. Første dagen med snø ble man frarådet å kjøre bil, fordi det snødde så mye at de ikke nådde å rydde veiene. Det var en masse mennesker som ikke kom seg på jobb, og det var litt kaos. Jeg syntes det hele var litt morsomt - det minner meg om hjemme i Norge. Ikke det at Danmark og Norge er så forskjellige egentlig, men det kommer da i alle fall vanligvis litt mer snø i Norge.
Jeg angret litt på at jeg har latt mine ski være igjen i Norge - men det er kanskje like greit, jeg tror folk ville sett litt rart på meg om jeg hadde kommet gående på ski til jobb!!

Ny blogg

Sitter her en søndag ettermiddag, og tenkte jeg skulle prøve å lage en blogg for første gang. Synes det er en god måte å holde kontakt med familie og venner som bor langt unna. Og et godt alternativ til facebook!
Jeg vet ikke helt hvordan jeg setter bilder inn enda, men det finner jeg vel ut etterhvert.
Det har snødd ute i dag for første gang i år, og det er så hyggelig å sitte inne foran en varm peis og bare slappe av. Ønsker dere alle sammen en fantastisk førjulstid!