I've never celebrated Advent. But they celebrate like crazy here in Sweden. Most of the windows have their Christmas lights now, most streets have decorations, all of the bakeries are serving lussekatter. I woke up on Sunday and opened Facebook to discover that all of my Swedish friends had Advent candles lit in their photos.
We didn't have any Advent candles.
I turned to G, "Why are you depriving me of Advent?"
"What?"
"You're Swedish, you celebrate Advent, but why don't we have any Advent candles?"
I was terribly upset. G had to leave the house to meet up with a friend but came home later that afternoon not only covered in snow but with Advent candles and the fixings for our first Advent fika. I am no longer deprived and feel throughly Christmas-Swedish.
Here you can see some typical Christmas fika foods. Pepparkakor, lucia buns, and glögg. I'm not the biggest fan of pepparkakor but I like to dip them in my glögg. They are also really good with blue cheese.
Hopefully this year I'll make some lucia buns and some gingerbread cookies. And my own glögg. But we still have to put up our tree and all of the other decorations.
You guys, it's less than a month until Christmas. How did that happen?
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