Happy Christmas/Glædelig Jul!

Wishing you a very merry christmas and a fantastic new year!

With love from the Hart-Larsens

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Freezing temperatures

Johannes holding on tight to Molly.

The water is frozen in the fjord....

its very slippy! This is the shore line!

Back home to prepare for christmas night.....

Christmas dinner, there are 2 ducks and a Linda McCartney nut roast in the oven as I write ; )

Dancing around the christmas tree, Aunty Viki's song book is at the ready

Presents from Father Christmas, fingers crossed!

Nissene/elves...

We're up at the summer house now ready for a danish christmas.

Here are the little ones preparing rice pudding/risengrød for the elves!

We all eat rice pudding on the 23rd, with butter and cinnamon sugar. The leftovers are used to make a christmas desert of rice, whipped cream, almonds and hot cherry sauce. The traditional pud of the christmas dinner on the 24th dec.

We took a little bowl of the rice pud out to the elves in the wood shed. The elves are often nice and leave little chocolates and things around for us, but sometimes they play tricks on us, like turning the milk pink! At the kindergarten where I work one morning we came in to find tolilet paper hanging all over! You never know where you are with the elves!!!

With christmas fast appraoching we thought we better be very nice to them!

The next morning we found an empty bowl and a big present, a marble run.

Those elves must have liked that rice pud!

Grandparents day!

Alfie's kindergarten had a grnadparents day, it coincided with a visit from grandad, so both sets were represented : )

There was decoration making, jigsaws, sewing, baking followed by lunch and a trip to church with parents and siblings. The day finished with æbleskiver (a danish doughnut/cake) and glogg/mulled wine.

Alfie thought all this was great!

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Other news...,

Alfie made lollipops at kindergarten to his great delight!

We went to our village christmas party on Saturday, Father Christmas visited and all the children got lucky bags.

Alfie could only join in with the games when he'd eaten all his sweets, he's inherited his mum's sweet tooth... ; ) The giant tree was traditionally decorated with Danish flags, mini drums, angel hair and real candles!

We've decorated oranges with cloves and sequins (with colourful pins through the middle), a easy and effective holiday craft : )

Now best get cracking with; christmas cards, I'm very late for international post I'm afraid, collecting more firewood, stoking the fires, christmas cookies, getting ready for Grandad's arrival and cleaning (always last on the list I'm afraid!!!).

Hope everyone's december days are going merrily with time for a bit of realxation!

Trip to London

Two weekends ago I made a quick trip to London to visit my sister and mum.

It was a great trip away without the kids!!!

This is Vik's new house, very nice indeed!

We did alot of christmas shopping and wrapping with a tape dispenser that goes on your arm!

outside activities

Off to deliver eggs to a neighbour...

Sledging at Stenkilden, molly's not as daring as Alfie but she did have one go!

Alfie and Christian in their element!

Molly and I left the boys to it and went home to make sure the fire was still going!!

inside activities!

Making wrapping paper with potato prints, messy but effective!

Waffles for breakfast at alfie's request

and cookies too.

All yummy!