We started the decorating

What a job it is decorating the house for christmas! I, every year, regret that I never packed things away properly. It takes hours to unwind all the lights, decorations etc. (This year I am going to take time and pack things away properly, but then again I said that last year at this time too!)


So we started the decorating - we found snowflakes for the window (forgot we had them!)
We found the good old Christmas cushion covers. Funny the memories they bring back! The kids all love these cushion covers, especially one of them were there is a bear family, the baby bears are all opening their presents. There is one boy and two girls, a mum and dad, and when the kids were younger we pretended the bears were Sara, Andrew and Leah.

I was thinking of not putting those cushion covers on this year, I am a bit tired of them, but the kids put their foot down and said that the covers had to go on, it was our tradition. So once again they are on the cushions!

Leah decorated her room. She has her own wee tree and a few ornaments for around the room.

We didnt get all the decorating done today. We discovered some of the lights didnt work, and we want to buy a few more decorations. (Now that we have had a look through what we have and dont have!) But we got the kitchen finished today. Well nearly finished - we just have a few things to put up at the window.

The Danes love to eat something called Risengrod (Rice Pudding). They eat it with cinnamon sugar and a knob of butter. So it being the 1st Sunday in Advent I decided to make it for dinner. You cook it slowly but it can very easily burn, so my mother-in-law taught me a way to make it so it doesnt burn. Once you have warmed up the milk and rice - you take it off the heat and wrap it in newspapers and then in a duvet for at least 2 hours. The longer the better.

So that´s what I did. For 3 hours the rice pudding was cooking away in our bed, wrapped up in our duvet. We then ate it with cinnamon sugar, and a knob of butter by candle light. Cosy!

We wont put our tree up for a few weeks yet. Over here there is no plastic trees, everyone goes out and buys real trees. It´s really nice - the smell of the tree is wonderful.

So in a few weeks time we will go out to my bosses place - he sells Christmas trees. We get to pick one and cut it down ourselves. Then we have to wait a few days before we can take it indoors to decorate. I love that.

We have a tradition that we decorate the Christmas tree in the afternoon and that evening we sit and watch "The Griswalds Christmas Vacation". It is soooo hilarious. So all that´s left to say is . " Let the Christmas traditions begin!!! Hope you and your family will enjoy the whole of December month!!"