YW - wednesday activity

Wednesday night we use to have a Young Women activity in church. This Wednesday was no exception, the difference was just that we did the activity home at my place instead. Its easier and better to make christmas cakes and candies in a home, instead of the church building.
We had a good time together making cakes. The girls did an excellent work! We made ginger snap (pepperkaker), finskbrød (danish cake) and marzipan chocolate.

Josefine and Karoline :-)

Helene and Alma :-) Welcome home Helene!


Doesnt it look delicious? I think I could have eaten it all! But I am unfortunately not going to eat it. The cakes are going to be given to the elderly people in church. Next Wednesday we will go christmas caroling and give a little gift of cakes and candies... I think thats a good christmas tradition :-) I look forward to experience that !

Visiting Anna

Last Wednesday Mia and I went to visit Anna. We used to be her helpers last year. She is trained by the family hope methode. (www.familyhopecenter.org)
Since then Mia has started school to take an education as a preschool teacher, and I have been working as a nurse at Kolding sygehus.
We both miss Anna a lot - she is a very intelligent and funny girl, and we appriciate to come and visit her once in a while.
This day she had made a lot of christmas-presents for us.

She had made a colorful braclet for each of us.

She had made them all by her self! And she also had wrapped in some of the gifts by her self! I was so impressed. Even I sometimes have a hard time wrapping in gifts....

We got so many nice things:

Handpainted kettle holders, a painting, homemade christmas jam and preserved beetroots.

We had a really nice time together. Annas mother had made a lot of delicious christmas cakes and candies. It tasted really, really good.

And of course we had some time to play too! Here you can see princess Anna and Mia crawling to find a little kitten called Nussi.

Christmas in our house :-)

Steen is gone for most of the week. He has a lot to do at his work. Now he is in Fredrikshavn (at the best Scandic hotel there is in Denmark, I am not jalous at all!!!!!), and at Thursday he will go to Copenhagen. So I have a lot of time to clean the house for chrismas, put up chrismas decorations and update my blog....
Today I have been making Christmas decorations with Steens mum. It was actually pretty fun. Here you can see the result:

This was for the front door. But unfortunately there wasnt any place to suspend it. So I put it on the wall in the bathroom instead. I guess that works too!

This decoration was for the living room. And here it is. Steen has made all those silver stars at the table. He tried to teach me how to do it too, but it wasnt that easy. Dont know if I could do it myself, without him guiding me.... Sometimes he is also making big hearts and baskets out of them. Its pretty amazing!

This was for the kitchen, its my favorite!

I had to add this picture too. I love that little "nisse". One of my brothers made it many years ago, and I think it is so cute!

A kiss under the mistletoe

4 weeks

Tomorrow it`s only about four weeks until we will have our little baby-boy. We look forward to that! The last few days we have spent time painting the little baby-room, and I have aldo been wasing and ironing clothes. The room isnt ready yet - we havnt got all the furniture yet, so pictures will be posted later. But I will post a few pictures of the cute, small clothes we have got.

1. advent

TENN LYS !

Tenn lys !

Et lys skal brenne for denne lille jord.

Den blanke himmelstjerne, der vi og alle bor.

Må alle dele håpet så gode ting kan skje.

Må jord og himmel møtes. Et lys er tent for det.

Tenn lys !

To lys skal skinne for kjærlighet og tro,

for dem som viser omsorg og alltid bygger bro.

Må fanger få sin frihet og flyktninger et hjem.

Tenn lys for dem som gråter og dem som trøster dem.

Tenn lys!

Tre lys skal flamme for alle som må sloss.

For rettferd og for frihet. De trenger hjelp av oss.

Må ingen miste motet før alle folk er ett.

Tenn lys for dem som kjemper for frihet og for rett.

Tenn lys !

Nå stråler alle de fire lys for ham

som elsker alt som lever, hver løve og hvert lam.

Tenn lys for himmelkongen som gjeterflokken så.

Nå møtes jord og himmel i barnet lagt på strå.

(Eivind Scheie)

1. advent - our weekend :-)

It has been a good weekend. Yesterday we went to the temple with two good friends Stephan and Joanna. We drove early morning, and it was snowing so much we wasnt sure we would make it to Copenhagen. But we did - we even reached the first session.
It was good to be in the temple again! I am happy we have a temple so close by.

After temple we tried to find an indian resturant, but it didnt work out. After driving through what felt like all of Copenhagen, we decided to go for a mexican one instead. The food was really good, but the place could have been more cozy.....

It has been snowing a lot these days. I like it :-) Feels like winter and christmas!
And today when we visited Steens grandma at the nursing home, they where singing christmas carols and eating "epleskiver" and "pepperkaker". It looked like the elderly people had a good time, and we enjoyed it too.

One of the things about christmas that has always fascinated me, is our christmas carols. All around us we can hear christmas music, with lyrics about Christ as a baby. Even in the stores will play this kind of music, and I really do think that has an influence on people, even if they notice or not.

This is one of my favorit christmas songs. When I was a teenager I went to Ten-Sing Tromøy for a couple of years, and every year we used to sing this song in church before christmas. It brings back a lot of good memories...!