Showing all posts in Swedish in America

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:) 

Good Morning and Happy (day after) Thanksgiving! Hope you are doing awesome!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day here in America. We slept in a little, cause why not:) I woke up with a cold sore on my nose (fifth one since August, what is going on?) and I was quite upset about it at first, but when Jim came home from the grocery store with coffee from donut delight he bought on the way home, I decided to forget about it and be happy instead, even if I could feel the pain. 
We watched the Thanksgiving Parade on tv with our coffees. Marching band after marching band, they all sound the same and I don’t see the point, but that’s very American I guess. After that, we put our workout clothes on and went down to the gym.

We started cooking around noon. Jim bought a small turkey breast this time, it took about 2.5 hours in the oven. Lauren came over at some point to drop off a few things and then took Thor for a walk. Jim watched football. When it was getting closer for the bird to be done, I started cooking the other food. We had mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots and peas, gravy, stuffing, cranberry and biscuits. Very simple but it was perfect for us.
Jim didn’t get to play football last year on Thanksgiving and I think that was the first year ever he missed it, so I told him to play with Thor, so after dinner we went down to the lobby. A British family that we know here was down there. Their daughter just learned to walk kinda so she was walking after Thor barking back at him. Eventually lots of people showed up, so we had to bring Thor home. 
We had pumpkin pie that we bought at a bakery nearby, played some rounds of HIVE (a two player strategy game) and then watched football for the rest of the night.
Very relaxing day actually. And I love this kind of cooking, cause you can clean up while you’re waiting on something to be done and it’s easy cleanup after the meal, so our kitchen was basically clean the whole time which I like. I hate when there’s a mess:) 

Jim is working from home today. Nice to have him home even if we are only sitting by our computers. I made coffee, had some leftover food for breakfast, watched a youtube video and now I have things to do on my laptop. L might come over this morning again to borrow Thor for a walk. T makes everyone happy and people are always asking us if they can take care of him or take him for walks, maybe we should take advantage of that more, hahah. 
I hope you’ll have a wonderful weekend. Be thankful for what you have and let your loved ones know that you care about them. 
Hugs / F

God morgon och Happy (dag efter) Thanksgiving! Hoppas du har det awesome!
Igar var det Thanksgiving Day har i Amerika. Vi tog en liten sovmorgon, varfor inte lixom:) Jag vaknade med “munsar” pa nasan (femte sedan augusti, vad pagar egentligen?) och jag var ganska upprord over det forst, men nar Jim kom hem fran mataffaren med kaffe fran donut delight han kopt pa vag hem, bestamde jag mig for att glomma det och va glad istallet, aven om jag kunde kanna smartan.
Vi tittade pa Thanksgiving Parade pa tv med vara kaffen. Marching band efter marsching band, de later alla detsamma och jag ser inte poangen, men det ar valdigt Amerikanskt antar jag. Darefter satte vi pa oss traningsklader och gick ner till gymmet.
Vi borjade laga mat runt lunchtid. Jim kopte ett litet kalkonbrost den har gangen, det tog ca 2,5 timmar i ugnen. Lauren kom aver en stund och lamnade nagra saker och tog sedan Thor pa promenad. Jim tittade pa football. Nar det narmade sig for fageln att bli klar, borjade jag laga den andra maten. Vi hade potatismos, grona bonor, morotter och artor, sas, stuffing, tranbar och biscuits. Mycket simpelt men det var perfekt for oss.
Jim fick inte spela football forra aret pa Thanksgiving och jag tror att det var forsta aret nagonsin han missade det, sa jag sa till honom att spela med Thor, sa efter middagen gick vi ner till lobbyn. En brittisk familj som vi kanner har var dar nere. Deras dotter larde sig nyligen att ga, sa hon gick efter att Thor och skallde tillbaka pa honom. Sa smaningom dok mer folk upp, sa vi var tog med oss Thor hem.
Vi at pumpkin paj som vi kopt pa ett bageri i narheten, spelade nagra rundor av HIVE (ett strategispel for tva spelare) och tittade sedan pa football resten av kvallen.
Mycket avkopplande dag faktiskt. Och jag alskar den har typen av matlagning, for du kan stada upp medans du vantar pa att nagot tilllagas och det ar latt att stada upp efter maltiden, sa varat kok var i princip rent hela tiden vilket jag gillar. Jag hatar nar det ar rorigt:)

Jim jobbar hemifran idag. Trevligt att fa ha honom hemma aven om vi bara sitter vid vara datorer. Jag gjorde kaffe, at lite rester till frukost, tittade pa en youtube video och nu har jag saker att gora pa min laptop. L kanske kommer over denna morgon igen for att lana Thor for en promenad. T gor alla glada och folk fragar oss alltid om de kan fa ta hand om honom eller ga pa promenader, kanske borde vi dra nytta av det mer, hahah.
Jag hoppas att du far en underbar helg. Var tacksam for vad du har och lat dina nara och kara veta att du bryr dig om dem.
Kramar / F