Month: December 2013
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2013 remembered in quotes from a 6 year old
To cap off the year, I will now list the best quotes from the year of 2013 by my 6-year old son, Max….. Max: Why can only adults change their […]
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The kind of crime I like
Two big crime stories in the Swedish news this past month. 1. Man steals truckload of chocolate. 2. Men steal hot dogs. (caught by mustard stains!)
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Breaking News – Rudolph’s Nose Scientifically Proven to be Red
This article and picture is in thelocal.se . Yes, they really studied reindeer for this. Thank you Swedish scientists.
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Christmas Eve!
Today is Christmas Eve. This is the day we celebrate in Sweden. I plan to eat a ton of food, watch the Donald Duck Christmas special (yes, the whole country […]
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Swedish dinner
Tomorrow we celebrate Christmas in Sweden. This means a huge Christmas dinner (lunch actually). As you can guess, there are a lot of meatballs involved. Also sausages, ham and potatoes. […]
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Follow up…. The Goat has left the building
The goat burned Friday night. My favourite part of this story: “”I have a hard time believing that it may have started because of natural causes.” http://www.thelocal.se/20131221/swedens-christmas-goat-torched-yet-again
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Small town gift ideas
My mom came to visit and she brought me the local small town Texas newspaper. This is why I’m much happier spending my Christmas in Sweden instead of Texas. “Shop […]
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Non- fiction means REAL
I’m currently looking for a book for my dad. I chose the category of NON-fiction from the Target website. Included in this section is Stephen King’s book “11/22/63.” I read […]
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In the news…
Ah, the Swedish news. This is fairly calm country so it’s always fun to read the news stories. Now you may say that this is a obbery and therefore not […]
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Subtitles
I like that Sweden subtitles their movies and keeps them in the original language. The only thing that’s annoying is that we all read the subtitles before the actor says […]
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Language barriers
I had a woman over to my house the other day who neither spoke good English or Swedish. She got a small cut on her hand and indicated by pointing […]
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The Christmas goat of Gävle
Every year, the Swedish town of Gävle builds a giant straw goat during December to celebrate Christmas (yes, they use goats here to celebrate Christmas.) This started in 1967 and […]
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Lucia day
Today is St. Lucia day in Sweden. I write about this every year. It’s the holiday where girls wear lit candles on their head and many sad parents have to […]
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The airport is a strange place.
At least to a 6 year old. After going through security the other day, my 6 year old son spotted a man with a turban put something in his pocket. […]
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Slogans
I noticed that most countries (at least in Europe) have some sort of slogan. At the airport, I saw, “I Need Spain” and “I Feel Slovenia.” This got my husband […]
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Nobel day!
Today the Nobel awards are presented in Sweden. (Everything but the peace prize – Norway gets that). Are the Swedish people excited about these brilliant scientists and authors who have […]
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Back from Slovenia!
Back from Slovenia! And it was actually a very beautiful place! We were in Ljubljana and it was Christmas market time. The whole old part of the city was lit […]