December...

Finally time for the Christmas month!  I remember I loved this time of the year when I was a little girl...then for a few years it turned into too many visits in such a short time frame so it almost became more stress than joy... Now when we have our two girls, Christmas is so much fun again. I truly enjoy to see them experience new memories and take part of the best things about the Holidays.  

We dont do it to the extreme but I want to make sure they get into a Christmas mood with baking, doing simple crafts, decorate, seeing Christmas lights,  hopefully visit a Christmas market somewhere and of course have alot of cozy time at home.

It's going to feel a little strange to celebrate without my beloved family and friends in Sweden and we will surely miss all of you! But this year we take part of the American christmas and next year we might be in Sweden again... It's good that we at least are able to update each other fast and easy nowadays!

This is last week in pictures...

Natalie and I had a memorable evening when we went to see "The Nutcracker" performed by New York Theater Ballet. Such an inspiration for my little girl!!

Yesterday we saw the Christmas Parade in Neosho after playing all day with the Sims family! I can say both girls slept good last night..

For my wishlist...

So easy to get inspired! So many nice things!

Almost Christmas. ..

Time just fly by..and Christmas is getting closer...

We had hope of spending the Holidays together overseas, but that's not gonna happen so this year we will have a Swedish Christmas. It seems like it takes forever to get my visa done, and its very hard to understand how the process is so slow when we got my approval already in June... Right before we left for Gothenburg I finally heard something from national visa center (after several emails...)
(NVC dep. that handles the visa processing after US immigration , USCIS,has approved the application) NVC also book interviews at the embassies all over the world...unfortunately US embassy in Stockholm has nothing to do with it until they get all my documents from NVC... Anyway before the final stage of my process I have to send in a few more documents again from Skatteverket, that we already sent to USCIS last winter.. and also Criminal records from the police (utdrag ur belastningsregistret). I dont know why we didn't get this request earlier!!  Luckily I am "clean" at least that I am aware of...I got a speeding ticket once, but that shouldn't be in there or make a difference. It takes quite few days to get this so before NVC get all documents it will be a few more weeks.. so my guess now is that it will be done mid january..We hope. .dont dare to plan anything right now! I guess the girls have to put on their nice christmas clothes and get the gifts later that we have in Montana...a second Christmas!

Lets hope for snow then, here its just green, gray and foggy not so much Christmas feeling over that...
Well, we are trying to get in right mood for the Holidays and afterall it's gonna be nice to celebrate with my family here. The girls made some decoration with things we found in the woods- very appreciated activity for Natalie. I'll show the result later.. We also baked some and yesterday we got this year's Christmas Tree. Natalie loved decorate it and she did a good job even though it might not be picture perfect... but it's more important they have fun making it. In the future I think the girls will have their own in each room so they can get exactly what they want in the tree...

Here are some pics from my phone.

Over and out...