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Great Christmas list 2019 - here's how we think about Christmas

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Today we feel it's time for the Great Christmas List 2019. For once, we will be celebrating Christmas at home in Sweden, so what could be better than a Christmas list? Feel free to join in too! Answer in a comment, or in your own blog post if you have a blog.

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Big Christmas list 2019

I (Helena) found a Christmas list on the blog Maria's Memoirs and got inspired. However, we developed the concept further, and here is the Great Christmas List 2019, according to us.

By the way: The top picture in the post is of course very old. It is from the time when we lived in apartment and not in a houseboat, but it's very Christmassy, isn't it?

Julmarknad i Gamla stan

Where do you prefer to celebrate Christmas?

We are not really good at "celebrating Christmas". Of course, we like to see family and friends, but we can get a bit stressed by all the demands around us, with planning and presents. We like it best if we get to travel during Christmas - but we can imagine different types of destinations.

Just before Christmas in Zagreb, Croatia 2016

Have you celebrated Christmas abroad - in which countries?

We have celebrated Christmas abroad quite a few times:

  • 2005 - Gran Canaria
  • 2006 - New Zealand
  • 2007 - Going to Kenya
  • 2009 - Ukraine
  • 2010 - Morocco
  • 2012 - Malaysia
  • 2013 - Philippines
  • 2015 - Spain
  • 2018 - Going to Sri Lanka
Jul vid Maidan
Christmas in Ukraine was an exciting experience!

How do you decorate for Christmas?

No, not at all. But we think it's great when other people put up candlesticks and Christmas lights! For a while, we actually had a straw pig, but then we started travelling abroad too often and the Christmas decorations fell by the wayside ...

Var ska vi fira jul i år?

What is your favourite thing about Christmas?

Things are calmer on the work front, and you have time to catch up on things you're behind on. Great! Of course, it's nice to spend time with family and friends too.

What do you like not with Christmas?

The shopping hysteria around Christmas is annoying. Christmas would be more cosy and relaxed if there was no pressure to buy presents.

Do you buy Christmas presents? For whom and why/why not?

We buy relatively few Christmas presentsand those we buy should be carefully selected. We can find the buying hysteria in the shops annoying, and we can also sometimes think that it is difficult to shop for others. Of course we buy something if we are invited, but there are no big loads of Christmas presents ...

Stora jullistan 2019 - julklappar

What is most important on the Christmas table?

Herring and nubbe! None of us think that Christmas food is fantastic, but little it can still be good sometimes. In addition to herring and nubbe, we like to eat some Jansson's temptation. In addition, we are very weak for Brussels sproutsBut we eat it from time to time at other times of the year.

Stora jullistan 2019 - julmat

Do you have any odd Christmas traditions?

The oddest tradition for us is probably that we have no tradition. We often celebrate Christmas abroad, and if we are at home in Sweden, it is in different places.

Do you have any good reading or gaming tips for Christmas?

I have just read the book "Vera" by Anne Swärd. Fantastically nice book that you really suction into. I'd like to say "magical" even though that word is a bit dated.

Where will you spend Christmas this year?

This year we will be home in Sweden for Christmas, and our main plan is to work on the blog. There will probably also be visits to Peter's son Robin and my (Helena's) mum, among others.

It feels great to be home, especially since we were recently in Egypt. I would wish for some snow though, but I guess it's too much to hope for ...

Stora jullistan 2019 - Vår husbåt i vintervädret
Our houseboat in winter weather another year

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