Decorating the tree

There were a lot of oooh’s and aaah’s when we decorated the tree this afternoon, Alva and me. She opened the first box of decorations and thought it was filled with so much fun and prettiness she stopped to admire each one of them. Then she decided it was more fun to play with them […]

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The tree is in!

Yesterday evening we went out for the Christmas tree and this is a very important moment to me. Each year, same procedure. The rest of the family watch the show “mama pick the tree” that can vary from 10 to 40 long minutes and consist of me going “that one, or no that one, or […]

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Swedish Christmas things

I’m a true Christmas lover, it’s my absolute favorite time of the year, I live for December! :) But I also love to celebrate winter and to extend the pleasure as long as possible. So I decorate a bit every day, I don’t deck the halls first of December, I start with the Christmas lightning […]

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Christmas gifts for myself

This year we’ve decided to only get us (over 10 years old) gifts that either we need or had an eye on for a long time. For me it’s these books, both Swedish, Hidden Places and Sofia Wood’s cookbook. Hidden Places is a “handbook for adults to the children’s magic world” and it seems wonderful, […]

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Decorating the tree

We decided to make the tree on a Wednesday this year, when the boys didn’t have school, to have the whole day to decorate. Mathieu couldn’t be there since he worked but I put up the tripod and took plenty of pictures to send him so he could be in on the fun! The kids […]

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