recap

These last couple of weeks, yet again time has run away with me. Mom came to visit for a week, over her 60th birthday, and we had a little party for her.

Before the snow came, I walked past the frosty allotment gardens every morning, just getting more and more annoyed by the broccoli and cabbage getting frost damaged there without anyone salvaging them. The gate being locked and the fence to high to climb was the only reason I didn’t go in there and take them myself.

Vivi and Kate in the sun, on a Monday lunch walk through the snow. On Tuesday, the snow started melting.

On Friday morning, December 13th, the whole green line decided to not run, and the trip that usually takes 45 minutes took two hours by several different buses. The walk across the Skanstull bridge was beautiful, but I almost didn’t make it to our Lucia breakfast, where the little choir I’d put together was scheduled to sing. Luckily, I arrived with five minutes to spare, just about enough time to put glitter in my hair and tie the red ribbon around my waist.

On Friday afternoon, I went shopping, and found my new favorite store.

It’s a real, old school style spice boutique full of bags with spices, essences, herbs and bottles of I don’t know what. I was there to buy glycerin for my toffee, but I couldn’t keep myself from buying a couple of flavoring essences as well. I’m so looking forward to baking all through Christmas.

Outside the boutique, just by the next door gallery, someone had installed this incredibly cute bead-covered bike. Pretty pretty thing.

And this weekend, I’ve cleaned and organized, seen The Hobbit II at the movies with dad and brother, and watched some British TV shows. Now it’s way too late and it’ll be a nightmare getting up tomorrow. I see several cups of coffee in my near future.

It feels like Christmas: the snow came and went, I started reading “Nyckeln”, an urban fantasy novel for teenagers about a group of witches, it’s exciting and consuming. We drink julmust and eat gingerbread cookies and spend time with family, mom visiting, gifts, I have kind of taken time off already. How will this last week of term work out, when I’ve already started my Christmas holidays.