Christmas 2015

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yesterday was Christmas Eve, which is the day we celebrate Christmas on in Norway. It is a long day, packed with traditions. The traditions are not set and followed on point, but they are more like guidelines and each family celebrates it in their own way.

Our traditions involve taking in and decorating our tree on the day before Christmas Eve, whilst watching the day before christmas programs on the TV. Dinner For One is a holiday classic that everyone watches this day. We also bake gingerbread cookies and/or house. But that might sometimes be done a couple of days earlier, it depends on how much time we have.

Then come Christmas Eve. They day starts with watching christmas morning shows, with the traditional film called Three Nuts for Cinderella. It's a Czechoslovak/East German fairy tail film from 1973 that has a Norwegian semi voice-over. And the movie is a holiday classic in Norway. Everyone sits in front of the TV to watch it. Just like Dinner for One, it is also an essential part of our holiday spirit. We also watch some Disney christmas specials in the morning whilst we eat a cozy breakfast. Or maybe just some candy. Then we get all dolled up, even though it's just me and my mum, we like to dress nicely for christmas. It's part of our tradition.

My outfit ^^

Christmas Rice Porridge with Butter and Sugar/Cinnamon

Whilst getting ready, we prepare some food. First we eat christmas porridge, kind of as a lunch. And we put a whole almond in it, so the person who finds the almond wins a marzipan pig covered in chocolate. My mum has now won two years in a row, it's getting quite suspicious...

Anyway, afterwards we prepare the pinnekjøtt(Stick Meat). I love pinnekjøtt! I look forward to it every year. After getting dressed and having put the meat on the stove for cooking, we sit down and watch some more christmas programs on the TV, and get around to wishing people a merry christmas. We take loads of pictures and just relax until food is done.
We eat the pinnekjøtt together with puréed turnip, potatoes, carrots, ribes jam and melted butter.

For desert we have homemade caramel pudding. My mums caramel pudding is the best thing ever!

After stuffing our faces with too much food we'll move on to opening the gifts. We switch on opening our gifts, and then we just relax some more into the night. We watch a lot of TV during christmas, since it's just me and my mum. And there are so many christmas shows and movies to watch.

On Christmas Day I got a christmas stocking on my bed, filled with candy. I get up and watch christmas morning shows. Then we eat christmas breakfast, and have a relaxing morning. And keep up the relaxation continues out through the day. We don't really do too much on Christmas Day.

We had lutefisk for dinner. Lutefisk is a old traditional food. It's dried and salted fish that is soaked in lye. I know, sounds weird. But it is actually quite good. It has a slight jelly texture, but my mum makes it very good. I think her lutefisk is the only lutefisk I would eat. We eat it with mashed peas, bacon and potatoes.

Me and my mum <3 We look alike?

Today is December 26th. In Norway we call it second christmas day, and it is, like Christmas Day, a holiday. So no stores open today. They won't open up until Monday. So another day that I will spend just sitting in the couch, watching movies all day whilst eating so much candy I will roll around soon...

So now I'm gonna sit the rest of the night watching even more episodes of Once Upon a Time.

Until next time..<3