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Hi from a rainy Charleston

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We arrived a few hours ago. We picked up a rental car, drove to the hotel, freshened up, ordered an uber and went to downtown Charleston. Its raining a lot here today, but its warm at least:) I’m wearing a sweater and jeans in January, wohoo! We had a lot of food at a bbq place, like crazy amount of food, and it was all awesome! We’re rolling around in the puddles haha.

We’re sitting at a cafe right now as I write this. Not much else to do when it’s raining. Tomorrow and Sunday is supposed to be really nice weather so we will explore then.

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Happy New Years!

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This is just some of the highlights of my 2018 This has definitely been an exciting year. Lots of traveling and many adventures. There has been ups and downs just like any year but overall, 2018 was a pretty great year. I have good feelings for 2019. Bring it on. Happy New Year!
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In Swedish in America, USA

Our Christmas

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I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. I never really got the real Christmas feeling, but we had two wonderful days. 

On Christmas Eve I was busy busy. Jim was at work and I ran around at home. Laundry, some cleaning, working out and a few other things. J came home around 2pm already which was nice cause he could join me when we skyped with my family. I had a few minutes after that to make a beets salad. We always had a beets-herring salad on the table when I grew up that my grandma made, but I’m fine just making a normal beets salad, I make the same one every year. At 3pm, we started youtube on TV and searched for the Disney Christmas shows that we have in Sweden every year. Couldn’t find exactly everything, just like previous years, but we found the important ones. This Disney hour is perfect for napping which we did:)
And then we started cooking. I made a “Janssons Frestelse” without onion and anchovy, so basically potato with cream, haha. I added a bit of cheese on top to not make it so boring. J heated up a ham with a mustard sauce that turned out really juicy and salty. With this we had biscuits. lettuce and the beets salad. It all turned out perfect, very pleased. 
At night we watched Home Alone 2. We watched the first one on Saturday. It’s been so long since I last saw them. They are too funny. 

GeorgeThor’s Christmas gift for his daddy Jim gave me a Bag of Unicorn Farts in my stocking

On Christmas Day, I got up early to go feed the neighbors cat (we are watching him for a week). All morning we just snuggled on the couch with a fake “fireplace” on the tv. Listening to the crackles while I did stuff on my laptop and J took a morning nap. Then I baked Swedish chocolate balls. They turned out amazing. J went to the gym and I jumped in the shower. We left Thor and quickly checked on the cat right before 2pm. Took us about half an hour to get to Mikes house (Jim’s boss). Everyone else were running late so we were the first ones there. We were starving but had to wait another two hours til everyone came and food was ready. There were some veggies and crackers out though so it was ok:) 
We had a great time. So nice of them to invite us. Feels a little weird maybe to be there with their relatives, but we feel very welcome.
We left around 6. We didn’t wanna leave Thor alone for too long and we had to go feed the cat later too. We finished our night with a movie on HBO. Ready Player One, a Spielberg movie about virtual reality. Kinda interesting but oh so cheesy love crap here and there. 

We had a wonderful Christmas. It’s nice to spend so much time with my husband. He worked from home yesterday and will be home tomorrow as well, yay:) 

In Swedish in America

God Jul

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In Sweden, you celebrate Christmas today, on Chritmas Eve. Some people might still have to go to work, but only for half the day, and it’s usually just those who work at the supermarkets and stuff. At 3 pm the whole country watches Disney for an hour, a perfect time to take a nap for those who wants too. Santa will come to your house at some point during the day and give out all the presents. You eat rise porridge maybe for breakfast or a fika later, and you most likely have ham on the table with your Christmas food along with meatballs, prince sausages and janssons frestelse. I can’t wait for the year I get to bring Jim to Sweden to celebrate a real Swedish Christmas with my family. We don’t even know when the next time we’ll be able to go to Sweden next, maybe next years Christmas?:) 

In Connecticut

Beach day in December

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We woke up to a beautiful day and decided to go to Tod’s Point in Old Greenwich. We walked right out to the beach. The water was completely still. You could hear the clucking sound of the water which is probably my absolute favorite sound of all. There were lots of people there, but most of them hung out with there dogs on the beach or in the park area right by it. We went for a walk around the point and we had times when we were alone and we could just listen to the birds in the trees. 
Wow, I sound so old when I talk about how much I love the nature, but I think nature and the wildlife is important to put our focus on in our lives. Without it we wouldn’t be here, we need it. Electronics, robots, buildings, material things, it can all seem nice, but if we loose the nature and our animals, all the other things won’t matter, we would have to come up with other ways to survive. Kids movies like Wall-E and Lorax is made up stories but they could become true. So, appreciating the nature is only good for us.
Anyway. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I have no Christmas feeling at all. I did when we put up the tree and decorated the apartment but that was three weeks ago. Hopefully gonna get more feel for it when we watch Donald Duck at 3pm tomorrow:)

New York City across the water