December 24th - Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve and the smell of food is filling the air! It's fantastic being home around this time of the year. Our family tend to look inwards and get cozy and loving. This year my grandmother is spending the holidays with my uncles and their children, but will be coming home to us on the second Christmas day. As for us, we only have one aunt on visit.
An hour ago, we went to the graveyard and placed some flowers on family members' graves, there were surprisingly plenty of cars and other families doing the same. My foster mother said: "look! us Danes are more family oriented than what is being said about us." I have to agree with her, there is this prejudgment about us Nordic-people being cold and not caring enough about our elders nor about each other. We are not out-loud with our feelings and using big arm movements when we talk. We are affectionate in our own private ways, we don't flash our love to the whole world. We don't raise our voices, or use the car horns in traffic. If something tastes good, or smells good, or looks good, we'd say "it's 'udmaerket' - " meaning it's alright. Southerners don't understand this and accuse us for being cold.
It's almost time to take a shower, get nice and pretty and prepare the stomach for the best meal of the year! yeeey