10. Advent = Adult

9th December 2013, Strängnäs/ Shoreditch

For all of you who do not know this- Swedes have rather odd Christmas traditions.

We once had a goat where Santa should be, we celebrate Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day and we do so by watching the same rerun of old Disney clips over and over and over again. I'm happy being a weirdo though so I kind of love it.

One of the other things we do is celebrate advent every Sunday in the four weeks leading up to Christmas. Celebration may be a bit misleading, we basically light one candle out of four each Sunday and have mulled wine with loads of vodka in it. A winner in my books.

However, since moving out of my parents' house 10 years ago, I have neglected this tradition. Primarily based on the fact that my mum and dad have not flown to wherever in the world I was living at the time to light the candle, give me warm booze and do my laundry while they were at it.....

However, as much as I am part of the Peter Pan generation were growing up is the ultimate uncool - I decided I needed some fairly mature piece of furniture in my flat, and my Wonder Woman coasters do not count. So my very first own advent candlestick holder has been bought and I have even managed to light the candles twice. I decided that was grown up enough and that regular wine had to do....

My very grown up candle stick holder with my Christmas Goat named Randolph

 

Maybe lighting candles next to the hay goat was not my best plan......