On the eve several friends and neighbors gathered for food, drink, merriment, a slide show by local artist, and nyckelharpa tunes by me,
and we sang carols and played a gift exchange game. Not feeling well,
I left early. On the morn of the 25 some folks here had a sauna but I
could hardly crawl out of bed, so missed it. Later my eldest daughter and her boy friend came for presents, and to bake cookies. I have an
extensive collection of cookie cutters and we made sugar cookies and ginger cookies. Horses, trees, moons, coyotes, holly leaves, moose, footprints, guitars, cactus, angels, flowers, doves, reindeer and more!
My dog Raven is still enjoying here holiday bone. chomp chomp chomp.
and the cat, Moki, has a small stuffed hedge hog to play with. In Swedish hedge hog is Igelkott . I had no tree this year, but had a basket where gifts were kept.