Yesterday I needed to buy a dress for a wedding on 4 hours sleep, with a very tired toddler. It can be done! Just bring a small bag of toy animals….
Hmmm. Which one first?
It’s official. This gingerbread may come from a ready made dough, but it tastes delicious!
Gingerbread cookies, or ‘pepparkakor’ as the Swedes call them, are an important part of the Christmas celebrations in Sweden. Every year adults and children alike make them, coming in different shapes and sizes, the most extravagant of them having piped icing upon them.
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On starting the day off with a ’snow scene’ in a plate, Maya decided she needed to make a snowman, so together we did!
We used beads for eyes and for the bobble on the hat, dried beans for a nose and buttons, pipe cleaner bits for arms, and a strip of fabric for the scarf. We fixed the balls of clay together with toothpicks, as well as a dab of glue on each object.
Then Maya decided to make a cat with a bowl, again using beads and bits of pipe cleaner …
And finally making a cave and painting it …
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‘Snow’ much fun!!! (Ha ha…)
Reindeer
Hairy Man
Alien
Hedgehog
Funny face
Cat
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This evening all the kids, and some of the neighbourhood kids, had a fantastic time playing in the snow!
Leon and his friend (little) Leon spent some hours building a snow cave…
Maya trying out the cave!
Alfie posing outside the cave!
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Juni is six months younger than Alfie, and is one of the few children of this age we have met who hasn’t started ‘dagis’ (nursery) yet, so we love to have her come to play!
This morning they went out on the snow racers…!
(Alfie shows Juni how to hold the steering wheel!)
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..was like this today!
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“Mummy, do you know when Spot was born?” said Maya early this morning.
“No, when?” I reply.
“In the year 224″ she says.
“Oh! Is that before Jesus was born or after?” I ask, joking of course.
“Well after of course! Don’t you know it was Jesus and all those people up there who made the world?!” she exclaims, as if I were stupid.
And then she rushed off to get her children’s Bible book …
A flutter of fear rushed through me at the thought of my child being indoctrinated, and not thinking for herself.
And then I started our lesson on Darwinism and The Big Bang … !
“But SOME people think …”
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The back of our house...
The front of our house ...
Our spiders web ...
A touch of red ...
First time in the snow ...
Snow Alien ...
Snow Racer Fun
Up, up, up we go...
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Hot chocolate and Saffron buns by candlelight. It is around 8.30am, but if you look at the window, you can see that it’s pitch dark outside!
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