New Years Eve

It is now 17:17 on New Years Eve, Bob is down stairs getting dinner ready, Sólveig Lilja is asleep downstairs and Kristín Lára is asleep up here and I'm just doing this! Next on the agenda is to have a shower, both I and the girls, then have dinner and then later on tonight, go out to see the bonfire and fireworks. Girls should be fine for that, night owls that they have become and having nice naps in the afernoon.

One can hear shots all over the place, people jump starting with their fireworks. Pretty stupid when it's still daylight (which it's not anymore but they've been shooting all day!). The weather is nice so it should be cool to walk up to the bonfire. It's probably a 10 minutes with these two, less than 5 if it was just the two of us.

Well, happy New Year everyone. Talk to you later.

Pizza

So we had pizza for dinner! And that's how it looked like.

Watch out Nigella

Sólveig Lilja got to come down to watch some TV last night as she did the night before. This time she just watched what we were watching, first ER and then Nigella Lawson's Christmas cooking show. She made all kinds of sauces, fillings, deserts......... and the turkey of course, with a lot of sugar, cream and butter, and then she sat down with her family to have dinner. Everything she made looked very pretty and good. Then after the credits - and I thought the show was over - we saw her come down for a little snack. She took a huge slice of bread, put all sorts of things on it, bread sauce, cranberry sauce and whatever, then two big slices of turkey and then another huge slice of bread on top and started woofing that down and then we heard; "Oh for heaven's sake!" from the three year old! How wonderful and how appropriate.

My parents came by yesterday afternoon after I finished work. They brought us their Christmas gifts, warm woolen socks for the girls, a new toboggan for Sólveig Lilja (which we had asked for), shirt and tie for Bob and a very nice top for me. They stayed for coffee and a little chat but then had to go since they had yet to feed the sheep. The toboggan is too small for Sólveig Lilja so we will take it back and see if we can find a bigger one. What I would like is a proper size one but with a little seat to support her and possibly even a belt to tie her down with! I just wonder if there is such a thing.

Rocking horse

We got a rocking horse for the girls and it didn't take long for Sólveig Lilja to mount it. But Kristín Lára was more cautious, she gave him hugs and cuddles and climbed up on the wood but that was all. Yesterday Bob saw that she was ready to try some more and put her on it and there she was, cuddling him and rocking and loving every minute of it. In case you notice the stains on her shirt, it's chocolate. She'd been eating some of that before :)

Watching TV on boxing day

We sat down yesterday to watch some TV. The girls snuggled down right next to me - or on top of me in Kristín Lára's case - and Bob took a few pictures and here are two of them.