Celebrating Christmas

 

Vidar and his relatives are all

working extra this Christmas 

as Santa's helpers 

 

 

Even though it's the holidays

I still have to study

- I've got TWO exams straight after new years, gah 

 

 Momma cooking

 

 Steamed salapao..

.. with pork, onion and hard boiled egg filling

Mom's veranda

One of my favourite Thai desserts:

Black sticky rice with coconut milk cream 

Yum!!!

 

Skyping with Aunt Lek in Thailand as usual

 

 

The other day mom and my sister came to our house for the first round of Christmas celebrations

 

Our Christmas-Yucca palm tree

Baking..

 

 .. a lemon cheese cake!

 

 

Veronika

And of course

mom had brought her laptop and webcam

so that our Aunt Lek could join the

party 

 I bet YOUR Christmas food doesn't

contain seaweed 

 Tom yum soup with halibut fish,

pork laab and sticky rice

Mom showing off her food baby

to her sister 

My cheese cake and mom's Thai style 

coconut caramel pudding

Post-dinner stretch

Gingerbread Fiesta

As you know, Benedicte is currently studying in England.

She's home in Oslo for Christmas, so yesterday I went to her house to make gingerbread cookies.


Since last time her parents have moved..

.. seemingly to their own island in the middle of the Oslo fiord. 

Like, litterally.

 Overlooking the Opera house and the ship taking Norwegians across the sea to Denmark.

An abundance of cookie cutters

I look..

.. kiiinda crazy with those pig tails 

Glühwein

Karoline

Assembling the gingerbread house

A mess

Petter swore he could taste the different colors of the Non-stop chocolate candy.

"The yellow ones taste like lemon!"

And then he insisted on a proper blind taste test 

Sucking on it for ages

 ..

"Green!!"

"No."

"Brown!!!"

"No - yellow"

"Oh."

 

Then Karoline handed him a red one.

 

 

  

....

".. brown?"

"Nope"

"Yellow!"

"NO"

"ORANGE!"

"Uh-uh"

"Black!!!"

..

 

Benedicte

 

Three years ago, when we all lived in Japan, during Christmas we made a gingerbread house out of the gingerbread house set we'd gotten from IKEA:

Wictoria and Benedicte

And we cut our own Christmas tree out of card board and colored it with a green coloring pencil:

 

Three years later..

.. and we're still big kids!