Winter without snow

We came to Finland on the 26th and almost half of our holiday here is over already. The children are still hoping to see some snow here, but it doesn't look very promising. It has been above zero degrees and raining a bit and there's absolutely no snow anywhere. We are enjoying our stay here anyway just taking it easy. We have been to the library, seen some good friends, gone shopping, slept until late in the morning and I also went to the cinema with Daniele and Sofia to see the film New Year's Eve. I just miss my horse riding, but maybe we will manage to go here too at least once. Too much eating and too much sitting still is not good!

Merry Christmas to all

Christmas baking

Last Sunday the weather was perfect for staying at home with fire in the fireplace and baking gingerbread cookies. Daniele went to a friend of his, so I baked together with the girls. It was fun and the gingerbread dough was good as always :)

 Gingerbread horses

It was the fourth Sunday of Advent, which means it's Christmas very soon. Help, I still have lots of things to do. I'm late as always...

Christmas tree

In Italy the 8th of December is the day when you decorate the Christmas tree. It actually suits us well as we are going to Finland on the 26th, so in this way we can enjoy our Christmas tree before leaving. So in the morning Armando and Daniele bought the tree and in the evening, when everyone was at home, we put on some christmas music and decorated it. It did end with some arguing and pouting about who got to put the star on top of the tree. In the end we had to take it off and put it back three times, but now it's there and everyone's happy.