Up in total darkness at 6.15 am to start preparing hot chocolate and "lussekatter" for Lucia breakfast.Fighting sleep I tried to tell myself "yes you are a good mother".
Marta dressed as Santa Lucia and woke Ingrid and Torgeir singing the Santa Lucia song, offering them sweet rolls (lussekatter).They both could sleep long today, but woke with a smile when Marta came (turning agains the wall to keep on their sleeps as soon as she left).
Leaving the house together with my little Lucia, she to go to school, I to go to the bus stop. Every morning we pass a kindergarten. Looking in the windows this morning we watched a Lucia breakfast. Parents sitting around small tables in one room with mugs of hot coffee trying to forget their longing to go back to bed, in the next room the children were dancing in anticipation dressing up like small Lucias and star boys. Marta and I looked at each other, smiling, remembering lots of Lucia mornings long gone.
At the bus stop I bend down to give Marta a kiss. She runs away with a smile" Mom, you lost your target, your kiss hit my nose".
Blessings follow my day.
