I hope you all had an wonderful Christmas- or if you celebrate it today, have a wonderful Christmas!
In Sweden we celebrate Christmas on December 24th. I dont know why some countries celebrates on 24th (Scandinavia and some part of Europe I think) and some on the 25th.
The gingerbread cookie… Will it make me nice or not? Do I get presents/gifts next year or coal from Santa?
Our Christmas has been been a rollercoaster. It has been both good but also overstimulated for E. Luckily it was just the three of us – if we were more, it would end bad.
Some part of the Christmas dinner. Yes, I had been eating the saffron cake during the day due to me being in front of/over the stove pretty much all day and I hadn’t had time to eat. 😅
This year we tried something “new,” and it was fried raw potatoes instead of having regular potatoes. Honestly, not bad, but it made me realize that I’m tired of fried raw potatoes—we have eaten that a lot lately.
It looks way more than it really is on the plate. I had to go close to get pictures of it all. Lol!
Raw fried potatoes, ham, meatballs, sausage (prinskorv in Swedish > prince sausage), my homemade saffron cake, liver pate and beetroot salad. Delicious!
We also had spareribs with honey & ginger glaze, but I didn’t like that.
E tried mustard for the first time last night and he likes it! Ew in my opinion.
Fun fact: I use mustard on the ham before I put it in the oven, and when M and I went Christmas food shopping, I grabbed a bottle of mustard—just to use it for the ham—and I said, “Having this big bottle will be unnecessary because we use it one time a year and later have it in the fridge. “None of us eat mustard,“ but lo and behold, E eats it. So now the mustard will come to use and not be all the way in the back of the fridge.
Now when Christmas if officially over in my household, everything with decorations, tree etc will be packed, boxed and off to the storage room again til next year.
The reason why so fast is that I really hate Christmas. I haven’t had a good childhood/adulthood when it comes to Christmas, so if it was up to me, I would not put up a Christmas tree, decorations, etc., but I do it for E because I refuse to let him have the same bad childhood on Christmas as I did. Normally I pack down everything on the 24th when E has fallen asleep for the day/night, but this year I had no energy after having been in the kitchen all day, plus cleaning and trying to study/send in essays at the same time, but this weekend it will be removed when E is not home.
Anyway, enough about the bleh moments! I’m currently watching my son playing with the toys he got, and hearing him laugh and seeing him smile is worth everything.
I took pictures of him opening presents, etc., but I don’t want to show them here, but I will share one toy I bought him that he is obsessed over.
It’s supposed to be an advent calendar with 24 different boxes for him to open one per day but we all know that wouldn’t work so we decided to give him as a present instead.
This truck with all the cars is his new obsession. He also got a radio remote car, a new garbage truck (his old one is in bad shape and he is super obsessed with it), a new backpack and some more I can’t remember right now.
Successful Christmas for E. I got my Christmas food, and that’s all that matters.