Christmas preparations!

Christmas if by far my favourite time of year! I love the bright and colourful decorations, to sing along to the Christmas songs, and to bake so many delicious cookies.

Everyone may know how much time and effort goes into baking the Norwegian Pepperkaker, it takes hours making the dough, cooling it in the fridge over night, and rolling it out, shaping them and baking them in the oven and then decorate if with icing sugar. It is by far one  of my favourite things to do in December. Yesterday I baked for work again, and while baking, I was listening to the very fun and lovely Norwegian Pepperkake Visa (youtube clip underneath).

I have also found a new recipe for my snowflake crochet project. The more advanced the recipe, the longer it takes to make them. I wish I knew how to make these earlier, so I could have made more advanced one for Christmas gifts. Maybe next year!

It is getting hotter and hotter in Queensland, and the thunderstorms are more frequent as well. I used to be terrified of thunderstorms, to the point that I would stay at friends and family it one was closing in. You cannot be doing that here, as they almost as common as heavy rain. I think it took me a year to get used to them and now I don’t care unless they forecast hail. The storms usually hit in the late afternoon and evening, making the day hot and humid. Nothing beats a hot and humid day than a day in the water, whether it be a swimming pool, a lake, river or ocean.
That is exactly what Luke and I did on the weekend and it was lovely. It am enjoying the heat until next week, when I will be going home to Norway for Christmas!

I am so excited to be going home for Christmas, and the countdown to next week is on!

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Xo