I’m go glad I married a Swede… 🙂such amazing new traditions…One of my favorite is Lucia… It’s such a beautiful celebration of light…Every year our girls participate in the Lucia procession held by our local Swedish Club! who knew, right, a Swedish club! ha!They practice weeks before… singing the songs and meeting up with friends…Then … Read more
Christmas was awesome… it always is! There are so many traditions from my youth and Mattias’ that we pull together and make our story… our family’s story… I love it. I think for me just sitting back and sipping it all in like a big mug of warm tea is my favorite… I love just … Read more
Thanksgiving is the kickoff! Don’tcha think!? I love it! I love the anticipation that Christmas is getting near… I love the baking, the cooking, the candles all lit… Every year since I was little we wake up and watch the Macy’s Day Parade… We turn the volume up loud and pretend we are in the … Read more
I love Easter! I love it so much! This Easter as all Easters may have been the best one yet…I love every holiday… love the chance to make some memories that come with so many traditions… traditions of when we were small children as well…Easter is nice for me because it is simple… not a … Read more
this is one happy little girl… Here we go to Georgia… our annual road trip… During the holidays with our business and life it tends to be one busy month… so usually the day after Christmas a nice little get-away is usually a good idea!We keep it really simple… find some cabin in the middle … Read more
I love Christmas for all of its tradition… I love how our girls let us know by now the things and traditions that “happen next…” It’s the little things… decorating a gingerbread house.. poking little cloves into oranges so that the house “smells like Christmas…” the Swedish Tomten comes to our house each year… delivering … Read more
Our little Cecilia Noelle turned 5 in December!!!!! How can that be!?? It does seem right… but really I like to just hold on to each day as they each slip through our fingers… it’s hard to grasp it all… but 5… I watched her sleeping her last night being 4… smiling… snoring… dreaming… She … Read more
Christmas and all of it’s spun together web takes little bits here and little bits there to make a beautiful web… today… I finally feel caught up to date with my pictures… I say that as I’m posting Christmas pictures… but being a Virgo… can drive one crazy but it’s ok.. hahaha… it’s hard as … Read more
the days leading to Christmas truly are amazing! I love it so! We trim our tree just after Thanksgiving… it’s always the day we look forward to most! Picking out the tree makes me super nervous… is it going to be fat enough! I make Mattias unwrap all the wet trees in piles… we are … Read more
we love to celebrate… love holidays! I love to pull out the rubbermaid boxes and remember back on all of the years… last Christmas… Halloween… little treasures that help us remember. little buddies in the banyan trees… I took this sweet pic a few days before Isabelle lost her first little tooth… I knew it … Read more