Today is the second Sunday of Advent and two candles in our Advent wreath has been burning almost all day.The ninth calendar mitten is also there of course.
Torgeir, our oldest son, who lives in Stockholm, has been home this weekend. He will not be home for Christmas, instead he is going to Japan for a month, so we made him the tradition Christmas dinner last night.
We do have quite a lot of snow for the moment, and after breakfast this morning both Torgeir and Terje were out shovelling the yard. And I filmed :-) You can see our lovely winter wonderland it the video below. I also sing the Second Sunday of Advent hymn, yes, you can hear me sing :-), and I read a tale I wrote many years ago about St. Frances seeds. I know it was one of you readers who gave me the name St. Frances seeds, but I can´t remember whom?????
You make me smile from ear to ear if you open the video and watch it, you see, I am counting....... It is very difficult to be seen out in the digital world from YouTube, and I have no idea how to make my videos reach people. So every view, a broader smile :-)
In August 2013 I visited the Chora church in Istanbul and was completely fascinated by the roof mosaics showing the tale of Anna and Joachim, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. It was after seeing these mosaics I came home and write the St. Mary Tale, Mariaevangeliet
One day, may be, I will translate this tale, so far the readings I do in my vlogg from Mariaevangeliet are in Norwegian only.
December 6th is almost over here in Norway, and I have been too busy to think of my blog. As soon as I came home from work I sat down to finish a knitting project, a pair of knitted wool tights for Leander. Tomorrow is his 3rd birthday and Ingrid wants him to wear the grandma knitted tights in kindergarten, with the nisse hat I knitted a couple of weeks ago.
It took me five hours of concentrated knitting to finish the tights, and then I had to drive over to Ingrid and Marius to deliver it :-) But now it is all done and I have an hour which is completely mine, before going to bed :-)
Maria, St. Mary, arrived this morning. I crocheted her last year, do you remember? And in my Advent vlog today I read the second part of the Mariaevangeliet.
Back to work again today, after my week in London. Well, London was also work, kind of, so I should say back to my office :-)
Coming home from work, I really felt in the Advent mood, and an important part of my Advent mood is to prepare for Christmas. Like knitting a new pair of Christmas stocking.
This is what I talk about in my Advent vlog today, and Ardi, yes, I talk about you and the absolute stunning stockings you gave us last summer.
I have still not designed a pattern for this year´s stocking, but I am working on it.
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I will do advent and Christmas blogging in three different blogs this year (at least).
I am sitting here with a beautiful, red catalogue in my lap, The Lost Portrait of Charles Dickens, by Philip Mould Company. It was on one of my many long walks in London that I came across Philip Mould Company and a sign that pointed me in to an exhibition with a portrait of Charles Dickens, a lost portrait, now found.
Curiosity got me, of course, I walked in, and had a lovely hour in a little room downstairs, watching the lost portrait, which has recently been found in South Africa after being lost since 1844!
The portrait is from about the time Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, and here is my point why I blog about this today, in my advent blog, on the first Sunday of Advent. You see, every year I read A Christmas Carol, starting exactly on this day. The book has five chapters, one for every Sunday of Advent, the last one for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Quite a charming young man, isn´t he, with very vivid eyes.
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You Can read more, a lot more, about The Lost Portrait here, quite interesting, so go over and have a look.
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In my Christmas vlog today I sing a Norwegian advent hymn, one we sing when we lit the first candle in the Advent wreath, and I read from a book I have written about Maria, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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I will do advent and Christmas blogging in three different blogs this year (at least).
London was filled with Christmas, in every nook and corner. Still only the last week of November, still many weeks till December 24 and 25.
I came home just before midnight last night, only a few minutes before December 1st. To a tidy and clean house, Terje is always very good at that. But with no traces neither of Christmas nor of advent. No traces, just like I wanted it.......then I can take part in it all :-)
Then, this morning, I woke up to all the unpacking, and to a little grandson filling the living room floor with toys. Still no traces of advent. But we are on the track now.
Today, December 1st. I am winding back all the hundreds of Christmas trees and wreathes and candles and music and whatever filled my last week. I am taking a step back to find the peace and quiet which I hope to fill the advent weeks with. The first candle in our advent wreath will be lit tomorrow. Today I will prepare the house, and if there is enough time, I will have Leander help me to set up the annual nativity village.
And tonight I plan to write the first Christmas card. To one of you perhaps? Leave a comment if you want one, and I will pick one of you.
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I will do advent and Christmas blogging in three different blogs this year (at least).
All texts and photos by Britt-Arnhild Wigum Lindland
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