December 27, 2020
Hope ya’ll had a fantastic Christmas! This year looked different for most, some might have been alone, others might have celebrated outside with loved ones, some had to work long shifts at the hospitals and others enjoyed the company of others through facetime. My husband and I are used to celebrate the holidays just the two of us and Thor, so it wasn’t very different for us this year.
I have to say, we had a perfect Christmas celebration this year.
On the evening of the 23rd, I made myself an awesome Irish coffee (non-alcoholic) and we watched the animated version of The Grinch. Surprisingly better than I thought.
Jim was working half of Christmas Eve (here in America it was just a regular Thursday) while I was baking saffron buns for what felt like hours and prepping some of the food for our “julbord” (Swedish Christmas table) before a quick facetime with my parents. At 3pm we had to say goodbye so that I could start “Kalle Ankas Jul” (the disney Donald Duck Christmas thing we watch every year) that I have on a dvd. After 4pm I prepared the rest of the food and J put a ham in the oven. And then time to eat:) My beets salad and the potato gratin didn’t turn out that great this year, but oh well, everything else was tasty.
At night we were so tired after all the food that we didn’t do much. We opened the gifts from J’s mom and Jim also gave me a gift (even though we had said no gifts). A new camera! The filming on my big camera hasn’t worked that well for awhile, but with this new one I can film our new family member:) We played a few games of Jackbox and then went to bed.
All night we had a massive storm (quite warm outside so no snow, just rain and powerful wind). The crazy wind kept me awake part of the night. In the morning we found trees that had been knocked down.
The buns on the oven paper got burnt on the bottom so sadly didn’t taste good. The other ones turned out as one instead of 21 hahah, but they were probably the best saffron buns I’ve ever made, yum!
I’m normally not much for hot cocoa but there aren’t many warm drinks to enjoy, especially when you’re pregnant, so sometimes I do make myself a cup:)
We haven’t made meatballs since we got food poisoning on Christmas 2014. We had veggie balls this year.
Thor snoozing with his present from his grandma
Christmas Day started with giving Thor his xmas gift. And then I made a nice breakfast with leftover ham. Since we had done most of the Christmas work the day before we had nothing other than facetiming to do. We talked to my sister and Mila for a little while, then we facetimed with J’s mom and stepdad. Then at lunch we “hung out” with my parents. We called J’s grandma when we cooked dinner (cornish game hens) and later called his aunt. In between we didn’t do much, just relaxed. At night we listened to music and then watched the end of the original Grinch movie that was on TV.
22 weeks + 1 day. Tummy is biiiig now, I can only imagine how it’ll look at the end
This looks both amazing and disgusting at the same time.
I often go for vegetarian options but I do also eat meat, fish and poultry at times.
When it comes as a whole animal like this it’s a bit harder though, but it was delicious.
The next day, the 26th, we ate leftovers and more leftovers, worked out for a little bit and then just watched crap on TV, pretty easy.
I hope you all had an amazing Christmas (or Hanukkah or whatever you’ve been celebrating)! I hope you and your families are healthy. We know a few people who have got the vaccine already and hopefully the world can go back to “normal” soon.
Stay safe and Happy New Year!