Lizardek

15
Dec
2007

COOOOOOKIES!

We baked up a frenzy today and yesterday…the plan was 7 different kinds of cookies, which is a Swedish Christmas tradition (although none of our cookies were traditional Swedish ones) but one cookie sort didn’t get baked, though the dough is chilling in the fridge…we just ran out of time, after spending the morning cleaning, the afternoon baking and the evening decorating the trees. After dinner Karin and Anders made knäck (toffee) which is a Swedish Christmas candy, but without nuts because Karin doesn’t like them. Plate o’ cookies: (clockwise from lower left corner) Rice Krispie Holly Bars, Almond Paste...

13
Dec
2007

DECKING THE HALLS

The smell of fat green pine needles fills the house, it tingles when you breath in then you get used it and all that’s left is the small start of surprise each time you realize there’s a tree in the room. Hey! There’s a tree in the room! I have a wish to always have a tree in the room and this time of year the wish sprouts and curls upward and blossoms. There are, as yet, no decorations on the tree, but really, I almost think it doesn’t NEED decorations. It’s decorating the room all on its own power!...

10
Dec
2007

MERRY CHRISTMAHANUKWANZAAKAH!

Today I’m performing over at Neil’s blog! Go check out all the great blogger music at the 2007 Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert! *** Big Bounding Beautiful Birthday Wishes to kachunknorge and fiveandfour!

08
Dec
2007

LAUGHING ALL THE WAY

Man, we’ve been busy! Too busy to post, obviously. We’ve been shopping, and celebrating Martin’s 10th birthday (by waking him up extra early with a birthday song and presents) and writing Christmas letters and wrapping Christmas gifts and going to Christmas parties and Christmas markets and Christmas tree farms and choir practice (me) and hockey (Anders) and Scouts (Martin) and karate (Karin) and just generally enjoying having my mom here! Martin turns 10 years old! In denial about being old enough to have a 10-year-old Who let that kid have a SAW? Christmas cheer is finally here! Still to come:...

02
Dec
2007

EVERYWHERE YOU GO

Time stretches and compresses and suddenly days have gone by without warning; this is how the year flies, how they all fly, until suddenly you’re aged and wondering where your youth and resiliance went. The house is full of Christmas glitter if not yet Christmas cheer: the windows are full of advent candelabra and golden Christmas stars, we’ve put up the snowman card holder made from felt by my great-aunt, the garlands of red and gold beading, the hand-knit personalized stockings, the cinnamon candles and santa figurines. Years worth of little tomtes made by the children are crowded into a...

30
Nov
2007

BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL

Somewhere in the midst of the darkness and the rain, I keep thinking about you. YOU, that I’m so glad for. YOU, that I’m so sad for. YOU, that I wish I could see more. YOU. and YOU. and YOU, too. Mostly, I’ve been seeing the world through a blur. Either a blur of raindrops, pattering down on the windshield before being SWEPT away to the sides and down, zip zop, zip zop as the windshield wipers clear the way. Or through a haze of blurry eyed squinterdom. Or the blur of perpetual motion. I was going to joke that...

26
Nov
2007

GRUMP

What is the point of having a husband around when he won’t let you put your really cold hands inside his shirt to warm them UP?!

25
Nov
2007

IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE…

Yesterday was our annual Thanksgiving potluck bash with good friends gathered around the dinner table, where silence reigned for all of 15 seconds during the first bite before everyone starting oohing and ahhing and remarking on how GOOOOOOD the food was. We had so much fun that we actually forgot for the first time in 10 years to take a group photo! *sigh* I enjoyed turkey leftovers for lunch today and baked the first batch of official Christmas cookies: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Squares that may just end up a family favorite. They’re DELICIOUS. They’re also for the AWC cookie exchange...

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