TIME FOR JOY AND TIME FOR CHEER
Karin was going crazy in the days leading up to Christmas: the anticipation was too much for her. She couldn’t sleep and she counted down the hours like a proper OCD sufferer, mentioning the fact that it was “nearly Christmas” almost every hour of the last couple of days. On Christmas morning I found her asleep on the living room sofa…she hadn’t been able to fall asleep in her own bed. We had our usual Swedish/American traditional mix of celebrating: Swedish on Christmas Eve with Anders’ family over, a Swedish julbord made by Anders and his mom that included homemade...