This is too soon! Everything before december 1st is too soon. Not that anyone cares. The shops have already begun. Meh!
I love what christmas should be all about. The problem is that it usually don´t get that way. At least not in our family. Everyone stressing around muttering "it´s christmas. Be happy!" with a voice that is anything but jolly. But it´s getting better over the years and now it´s quite peaceful and nice. Which is about time. I (yes I) convinced the rest of the family last year that we don´t need gifts anymore. So we bought to the kids (under the age of 18) and collected moneyy and gave to chairty instead. I´mspoiled as it is. Getting gifts are fun of course but giving to charity was an even better feeling. And that way I saved some money since I didn´t give as much to charity as I usually spend on gifts.
This year is a little different. I´m gonna buy some friends some gifts. Which guys usually don´t do but it´s not the first time. Having more girls than guys as friends make you do the "girly" stuff...
😉 Not that I mind. It´s gonna be fun, even though I as always have a hard time knowing what to give. And for some reason mum has stated that "if you want gifts just say so and you´ll get them". Who doesn´t want gifts? But I refuse. I started my new tradition last year and I´m sticking to it. If you get gifts you buy gifts and I didn´t miss running around in stores one bit last year.
As usual I´m going "home" for christmas. We´ve always celebrated at my parents. The relatives show up as well. Three things on the agenda.
* The christmas smörgåsbord. Yummy, yummy, yummy!
*Kalle Anka (Dondald Duck). This is gonna sound so stupid to you guys but 3 pm every christmas eve we got one hour of disneyclips (and most of them don´t have anytging to do with christmas!!!) put together for a christmas special on tv. And it´s a huge thing. Plans are made so people can fit in watching it. It´s ridicolous. Around 50% of the population watch it. Can you believe it? Say it all together now" Crazy swedes!"
😀 Ok, I´l be honest. I don´t need to watch it anymore. If the kids have a lot of company I stay away but if they don´t have that many grown-ups with them I´ll watch with them. The most famous clip (not in general but as refered to the christmas special) is
Ferdinand The Bull The funny thing is that it´s also the most hated part.
* Handing out the christmas gifts. Which isn´t done before 6 pm at the earliest. Now, last year we didn´t have that many gifts to hand out but you get the idea.
And the rest of the evening is just relxing. Maybe a late walk just to move a little that day and not just eat too much food and christmas snacks.
Once again. This is way too soon! You´re such a bad influence, you know that? *goes to put christmas songs on his mp3 player...*
