Jan
4
I love brunch!
by Sofia - in Random
We had a family brunch in our house on Boxing Day. It was such a great idea. This year we did Christmas eve at my brother´s home and everyone had a family dinner in their own homes on Christmas Day. Our girls got to choose the menu for that. We went ice-skating before that, took lovely hot baths and had our fancy dinner in our new pyjamas. It was so much fun. We set the table all nice and cooked together and then basically ate steak, fries & champagne and ice-cream Sundays for dessert in pj´s. It was one of our best dinners and definitely a winner concept for a future family celebratory dinner. It was nice to have a night off between the extended family celebrations.
Brunch is my favourite meal to cook. I love breakfast and lunch foods. We did do a fancy take on it and lit up all our candles and had a fire going in the fireplace. We ate in the living room enjoying the fire. We played board games and listened to classic Christmas music. Here are some photos from the brunch…
Jan
2
Today is the day in our house when we clear out the Christmas tree and the rest and bring in the crispy white tulips. It is the day where we still linger on our holiday moods and enjoy time together with the girls but feel our selves moving towards the new year that just started.
Did you make some good resolutions? Did you set up goals for yourself? I´m hoping to read more books this year than I did last year. And I finally got round to buying myself materials for my first cross stitch pattern I want to try out. I have never been very good at sewing but always wanted to try it out. I will also keep up some good habits like arranging things with friends and date nights with my husband. Even if we set up one night a month for friends and one night for our relationship it really truly pays off. It sound like a little and usually you do get more time together than that but it is important to keep up with at least that. I love work and I love the everyday life but as I have said for me it is important to see these exciting things waiting for me in my day planner. I love the idea of looking forward to lovely times spent with my loved ones. It makes me happy!
Dec
30
Happy New Year!
by Sofia - in Random
Bring on the sparkles and bubbles the farewells of old and the welcoming of the new. I love how we cozy up all Fall along, the candles, the fireplaces, cups of tea and woollen throws. Watching The Crown on the sofa at night cuddled for warmth. We plan for Christmas, we bake cookies and drink mulled wine. We read books on the sofa and eat chocolate from the box one by one. Then suddenly there is a change. It´s like we open up our doors and windows to let a fresh breeze in to our homes. The wait for Spring and the inevitable Summer begins. We start to clear out our closets whilst we clean the remnants of Christmas away. We cleanse our diets and our jogs get a little longer and our pace a little faster. We pack for holidays with bikinis or skis and we start buying tulips. Suddenly the blue & white stripes take over the warm grey cashmeres and we start dreaming of asparagus and dips in the sea.
Seasons change and each brings us new wonderful things to concentrate on. To dream about. The classics we turn to every year. The things that make us happy and giddy with anticipation. But also the fun new things we discover. The exciting things we suddenly feel we need to learn. The new books we can´t wait to read and the new movies that make us feel inspired. The countries and places we simply must see. And the new friendships we are thrilled to have found. On top of the old ones we are lovingly cherishing and keeping.
I love the thought of a new beginning. A new chance. Every morning, every week and most of all every year. As we as humans need to count our time in one way or another. Set time lines, goals and measurements. Make resolutions that some keep better and others brake every year. We count from one point to another. Our birthdays or the beginning and ending of a year or an era. We measure ourselves from one starting point to another. And hopefully we find that somehow we have grown towards what we wanted or who we wanted to become. More openly ourselves. Better versions of yesterday´s us. More charitable, more forgiving, more excited, more dynamic, more loving towards ourselves and others, kinder, stronger, healthier or just plain happier us.
