måndag 28 november 2011

Children singing!!

The children in Sunday school is singing on the 1st Sunday of Advent.



                                                                                  

                                                                                 


lördag 26 november 2011

1st Sunday of Advent!!

The Advent Candles is always something special to put in the windows!
At least I think so. It´s so dark outside at this time of the year so the candles and the
Advent Stars in the windows make the atmosphere much more nice!! Here it´s a tradition
to have an advent candle with 4 candles which you light up with matchsticks, a new each Sunday, until it´s Christmas. In our house it´s Advent without such candles!! Once when I was a child I scorched my hair on a candle flame when we were in our church on a Easter party!! I´m so afraid since then, so if I need to light up candles I use small candle lamps with tealights. Nowadays there´re even safer tealights with batteries!!
Well I wish you a really nice and peaceful Advent tomorrow and let us not forget that Advent means
"Coming of Jesus" who we´re waiting for!!



This wreath Victoria made to me several years ago but it´s still
beautiful I think. I know it has faded, but the needles is still left!!
I let it hang on the inside of the door.



torsdag 17 november 2011

Started with the hairdresser!!


I´ve got something white on my cheek.
Perhaps it´s the sun reflecting on my mobile
through the window?

Today it was time to go to the hairdresser again at A6 Center in Jönköping!! It's great to be able to sit down at the hairdresser and so she arranges so that I feel like a human being again! As I always say: I feel two years younger when I have
cut the hair!
Then I looked a little inside the H&M. I tried to find a dress. I'm not the one that like going in the dress whatsoever. Nowadays it's fashionable to go to "maternity clothes"! All other fits in it but not me. It usually takes several years after the new fashion that I start to think about it. I like jeans best.... but sometimes it is best to have something more beautiful. Well, I found two identical dresses but with different colors. One gray and one black. It's good enough!
After H&M, I was craving coffee so I bought coffee and a french roll and thought of taking the elevator to the second floor where tables and chairs are placed. Then it's a note on the door to the elevator where it says: Out of order. Just go back to the clerk and ask her to carry up my coffee tray on the stair!!
Then there was the grocery store before I phoned for the mobility service. Which afternoon there! All things were moved around to new locations in the hall so it was no use looking at my tab! Just picked with me what I thought I needed.....

A6 Center seems to be 25 years next year.



The elevator out of order!!


The stair up to the tables and chairs.

In the grocery store today they had blue orchids,
(Phalaenopsis). I´ve never seen blue phalaenopsis
before, just another blue orchid that´s called Vanda.


Outside the A6 Center waiting for the mobility service.
When the weather is like this with a blue sky,
it´s possible to be in November!!






onsdag 16 november 2011

Allt for Sverige.



We are watching a very nice TV program on Sunday evenings called ”Allt för Sverige” (All for Sweden).
Ten Americans with a strong urge to find their Swedish roots travel Sweden in this heartwarming and funny reality show. I wish you could see it in the Swedish channel there too. Here are some clips if you are able to se them.Or you can read about them in www.nordstjernan.com or in Facebook.
Watch as they compete against one another for the grand prize of meeting their long lost Swedish relatives.1.3 million Swedes tuned in to watch the Series Premiere of Allt för Sverige (that's a 28% share). Amazingly, that number matches the number of Swedes that emigrated to the US from the mid 1800's to early 1900's. I really tell you that there is running tears from my eyes watching the programs and of course I´m laughing too!!
http://svtplay.se/v/2561675/allt_for_sverige_-_landstigningen
http://svtplay.se/v/2586709/allt_for_sverige/allt_for_sverige_-_duvemala?sb%2Ck167322%2C1%2Cf%2C-1
http://svtplay.se/v/2564422/allt_for_sverige/allt_for_sverige_-_teaser?cb,a1364145,1,f,-1/pb,a1364142,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2586709/sb,k167322,1,f,-1
http://svtplay.se/v/2597170/allt_for_sverige/allt_for_sverige_-_oland_och_camping?cb,a1364145,1,f,-1/pb,a1364142,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2564422/sb,k167322,1,f,-1
 

http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/people/3451/


http://www.whas11.com/community/Local-pastor-on-Swedish-reality-show-comes-face-to-face-with-his-past-133098118.html


fredag 11 november 2011

111111.


Today it is a very simple date. It's 111111th. Not even we here in Sweden and you in the U.S. for example write the numbers in the date in different order today! Otherwise we use to mix up the numbers! I assume that many get married today or do something special just to remember this day. I do think there is something special about this day, but it was the same yesterday, one can say. "Each day is a rare gift, a shimmering possibility" as it says in a hymn. (In Swedish: "Var dag är en sällsam gåva, en skimrande möjlighet".) When my husband and I got married, we had that hymn, by the way. It suits every day...



måndag 7 november 2011

The Mudcake Day.

One of my Facebook friends told me that it was The Mudcake Day today. I've never heard of that before. Have you ever? A month ago, on October 4, I heard on the radio that it was The Cinnamon rolls Day. I looked it up on google and found http://temadagar.se/kalender-2011/. There was the whole year's various theme days. Unfortunately, I read not so carefully, so I never saw that there was a day for Mudcake Day too. Luckily my daughter made a Mudcake yesterday, because of that we were celebrating my husband. But it was enough for the right day too!


Mudcake. Kladdkaka in Swedish.


 



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