I don’t know what happened, but we actually made some Christmas ornaments yesterday! Pics to come once I get them photographed. Our ornaments are so cute, the kids and I had such a fun time making them!
It might have something to do with the nights being just so long and so dark here in southern Finland in November, and also that I have hardly visited a store for ages and haven’t seen all the too early-Christmas items for sale. This year I kind of feel the urge to decorate for Christmas much earlier than I usually do.
So far, I’ve managed to get a hold of myself, and I light so many candles every day and keep my trigger happy hand away from the Christmas music button on Spotify. But next weekend the gloves come off, and the Christmas ornaments come out from their boxes under the stairs!
It’s just too dark here to not have glittery shiny things all around us.
P.S. Lately I’ve been really focused on the differences between English and Swedish, and one thing is we don’t have that debate about the word Christmas that you do (although we do have equally stupid debates about stupid things because people often want to misinterpret things). The word sticks out when you write in English – in Swedish it is just so simple. We still call the holiday Jul (Yule) in spite of it supposedly nowadays being a Christian holiday, and in spite of nobody remembering what the word originally meant. That is a perfect solution to a tricky question, because nobody gets offended by a word they don’t even know the meaning of!
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