Christmas

After wrapping up the business year of 2010 which means catching up with months of book-keeping and other boring paper work  with the invaluable help of Silver…

accountant cat

… it was finally time for Christmas! But Christmas Eve (which is the day we celebrate in Sweden) is also the birthday of my nephew Daniel. Our most important Christmas tradition is to spend it with my sister’s family.

So Christmas doesn’t start until after 3 p.m. It’s entirely birthday until then.

If you persuade a teenager to be Tomte (Santa Claus) you may end up with a heavy metal one. Well, the neighbours downstairs with younger children wanted a tomte, and why not let him do the job upstairs as well :

We had a great Christmas ! Nice and peaceful. Not too extreme food excesses – only the most indispensible traditions (like herring and ham). At least that’s what we thought. Oddly though, it seems that the waistline is stretched out anyway…

Not too many gifts, but those that we got were very appreciated. Some examples:

Vippson examines his present

Tilda's opens her present

Silver wrestles with his present