Motherhood Blessings: Saint Lucia * Evergreen tree

This week started off as the third week of Advent

We lit our candles and I told some of week threes stories.

Monday was Saint Lucy day.

We celebrated by telling lots of Saint Lucy stories.

Since it was too cold and record snow we didn't make it up to Scandia. They have a very authentic celebration and candle light service with procession. We watched a lot of processions on youtube so they could see what we were missing. This was one of their favorites.

We made cinnamon cookies instead of saffron buns.
I knew cookies would go over a lot better.

Since my little girl is too young to wear the traditional garb, the boys became star boys.

Saint Lucia day is the start of the Christmas season in Sweden and it generally celebrates Swedish culture.

Of course we had Swedish meatballs for dinner! :)
Delicious!

We also spent time this week on the evergreen tree, conifer if you will.

We read many stories from the library about trees. We learned why they are evergreen. I told one of their favorite stories about the little bird with the broken wing needing shelter in the winter and only the pine tree could provide. So, king winter and jack frost let them retain their needles to always shelter weary birds.

We finally got around to getting our Christmas tree. which actually worked out great for our theme this week. They went to the tree farm to see all the trees.

We had a lot of fun decorating too.