• About how I try and avoid presents that your kids will never play with, and why I this year decided to make my own •
When it comes to presents, I’m quiet a conflicted person. I love when thought has been put into gift-giving. The idea of keeping a list throughout the year of things that people would like or could really use appeals to me. Or the concept of not having to gift the same people every year, but to only give presents to the ones you really have something personal for.
• A recipe for my easy morning buns •
A few years back, I used to bake some simple morning buns every Sunday morning. I’m not a skilled baker, but by studying other recipes I managed to make my own easy recipe that could be altered to fit whatever seeds, flour or nuts I would happen to have in my kitchen.
At some point I stopped baking. Maybe it was because I gave birth to Alma, and suddenly would spend my mornings breast feeding or catching up on sleep, or maybe it was because the best baker shop in the whole world, opened up just a block from our old home (I miss you Brød!).
• About how life sometimes can get a bit easier if you try and pick your battles and letting things go •
Despite all it’s wonder and beauty, motherhood can be quiet hard at times. I wish I could say our life was mostly smooth sailing, but it’s not. Instead I try to navigate my way through treenage tantrums, moodiness and small annoying things that suddenly turn into big scenes. And although I know everything would be easier if I embraced the choppy waves in hugs and endless love, but l find it hard to be that kind of person.
• A personal shopping guide to the most adorable Christmas dresses •
When I was a child, my grandmother would make me a new dress every christmas. It was always made in a heavy fabric like velvet or wool, had a classic but beautiful cut and was kept in red, pink or purple colors. 20 people from my closets family would be gathered on christmas evening, and dressed up in our nicest clothes we would celebrate the magical evening and later on all of us would go to sleep in my grandparent’s big house.
I feel like I always knew that I was going to become a mother to a girl and when I learned about the sex of my first born, I wasn’t surprised. A few weeks before I was due to give birth, my husband and I had decided on a girls name before we even knew the sex of our unborn child. Had it been a boy, we wouldn’t have had a clue. Having a girl felt right for both us, our family and our friends.
• My personal Holiday gift guide for the little ones •
It feels like November was over in less than a few minutes, and somehow we never got around to do half the things we wanted to do. But then again, when do we ever? We did however love every single moment of this beautiful last Autumn month, and for once I’m okay with tomorrow being that famous first day of Christmas.
I have decided that this year my Christmas well be 100% stress-free, and though some presents still have to be made by my own hands, I have finalized the list of what my girls will find under the tree.
• A few thoughts on thankfulness on this my first Thanksgiving ever •
I often forget to be thankful for all the little things. Like a new pair of wooly socks, my husband heating up the bed (he travels a lot and it’s so cold when he’s not here) and my children playing and laughing out loud together. That extra cup of coffee on a sunny Sunday morning and our home at night when my kids are in bed, my husband is quiet and I get to be alone with my thoughts for a little while.
• My favorite Apple pie recipe •
As the temperature dropped outside, we decided to stay in on a cold and grey Sunday, which turned out to be the day that we would welcome colder weather, winter jackets, red cheeks and running noses.
In an old notebook I brought with me from Denmark, we found our family Apple pie recipe, which we normally would bake in our little summerhouse kitchen using only apples from our own garden. Little busy hands made for happy hearts when we after a few hours of baking all sat down together and celebrated the season, the birth of a new cousin and the upcoming holidays.
• A shortlist of some of my favorite Stroller friendly New York hotspots •
When we first moved to New York, I somehow felt that bringing my children to museums and other crowded public places could be a bit overwhelming. Chances were, that my youngest would start feeling tired as soon as we had checked in the stroller and I would end up carrying her around a museum for hours.
Yesterday felt like a spring day in May. I walked around wearing nothing but a jumper and regretted that I had packed away my sandals last week. With blue sky and a sun that warmed up my daughters cheeks and hands and made her not want to go home from the playground before the hunger finally kicked in, I find it hard to believe, that winter is just around the corner. But remembering back on last winters snowstorms and days with extreme temperatures, I know it is just in my mind, that these beautiful autumn days will last forever. Last year the winter took me by surprise. Having lived in a nordic country my whole life I thought, I knew, what a real winter day feels like, but it turned out I didn’t.
This year I have decided to be prepared, at least when it comes to my children and so I have started to pile up on anything warm and made out of wool for the girl’s woolly winter wardrobe.
Here are some of my favorite items for a warm and woolly winter wardrobe :
1. Sweater + scarf + vest / Nieva 2. Scarf / Misha and Puff 3. Merino jacket / Disana 4. Vest / Nieva 5. Pants / Nieva 6. Knitted dress / Poppy Rose 7. Spencer dress / Waddler 8. String hat / Esencia 9. Pop-corn sweater / Shirley Bredal 10. Mittens / Misha and Puff
11. Hat / Shirley Bredal 12. Cardigan / Pierrot La Lune 13. Animal hoodie / Waddler 14. Pants / Oeuf NYC 15. Sweater / Esencia 16. Neck warmer / FUB 17. Dress / Waddler 18. Dungarees / Disana 19. Jacket / Engel