Tag: Christmas
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Slideshow Holiday Fun!
No one wants to watch my slideshow I downloaded over the holidays. Aren’t we supposed to share slideshows when the family gets together?
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Christmas burger
As usual, what makes this a Christmas burger or Christmas chicken? I told my son the chickens wore Santa hats before they were slaughtered.
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Bigger Christmas gifts
My husband complained that I only asked for little stuff for Christmas and he wanted to get me something big, so I asked for this. He was not amused. (Ok, […]
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Christmas ribs
I stood at the grocery store for 5 minutes staring at this and trying to figure out what makes this “Christmas” ribs. I finally concluded that the ribs must be […]
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Gifts for new baby
I want to get these for some of our family that are about to have a new baby. Do you think they’ll like them?
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Drunk gifts
I’ve been trying to look for some crafts that my kids can make as presents for Christmas. I found this cork craft which looks very easy, but I’m afraid the […]
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Worst gift ever
I saw this ad on the subway this weekend. It says, “Give a white smile as a Christmas present” from City Dental. Sad. That’s just sad.
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I’m looking for outdoor Christmas lights. I live in Stockholm. In the month of November, Stockholm has had 5 hours total of “sunlight.” That’s 5 hours in the entire month. […]
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The perfect gift
I finally found the perfect gift for my husband. Christmas shopping just got easy!
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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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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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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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And the hottest Christmas gift in Sweden this year is…..
… a juicer. Yep, that’s the big announcement in the papers this week. How much did the juicer companies have to pay for that one? Note to family and friends […]