It’s Christmas Eve in Sweden (well, the morning of). Anders is slicing potatoes for Janssen’s Temptation. The kids are watching cartoons. Mom, John and Simone are eating breakfast. I thought I’d put up a quick entry and then go shower. Anders’ parents are arriving in time to watch Kalle Anka and Tomte is expected to arrive sometime afterwards. \ud83d\ude42 A friend of ours is playing Tomte again this year as we couldn’t use any family members due to the fact that the kids are a little too sharp and would have recognized any of the usual suspects immediately.<\/p>\n
It’s been a hectic week and we’re only about halfway through it. Yesterday, everyone but Mom and me went out to a rock quarry lake and spent some time clambering up and down the rocks. I sort of wanted to go, but was also needing some downtime. Having a houseful of people, even people I love, is wonderful, but it’s also a little wearing.<\/p>\n
The Christmas cookie baking was great fun. We did the traditional sugar cookies and the kids helped decorate them to their great delight. John made a batch of rice krispie holly bars and then we made our family’s favorite christmas cookie which is an almond flavored, sugared, wafer-thin sandwich cookie with buttercream filling. Yum! Christmas just isn’t Christmas without those cookies!<\/p>\n
Last night, we watched Tenacious D which happened to be on TV, and laughed ourselves silly. Even Mom watched it, though I was sure she’d give up and go to bed after the first 10 minutes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I’m hoping that next year I will manage to do some handmade cards like the ones that galestorm<\/a> and jes6ica<\/a> sent me. They were so beautiful! <\/p>\n I’m barely managing to get online once a day and read emails or check my friends list, but wish a very very merry Christmas to you all! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Christmas Eve in Sweden (well, the morning of). Anders is slicing potatoes for Janssen’s Temptation. The kids are watching cartoons. Mom, John and Simone are eating breakfast. I thought I’d put up a quick entry and then go shower. Anders’ parents are arriving in time to watch Kalle Anka and Tomte is expected to arrive sometime afterwards. \ud83d\ude42 A friend of ours is playing Tomte again this year as we couldn’t use any family members due to the fact that the kids are a little too sharp and would have recognized any of the usual suspects immediately. It’s been...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}