This year's getting ready for Christmas is so drastically different from last year words can't do this justice. Hubby dearest and I feel so truly thankful. Last year I miscarried right around the beginning of December and this year, well; this picture says it all. I haven't really had the time to think much about Christmas preparations, and quite frankly I don't plan to do much other than the ginger bread baking I got up to last night while my sous chef happily fell asleep in

Hi, I was just referred to an article about a Danish concept called hygge, an idea of enjoying the opportunity to stay in and cozy up with friends and yummy Christmas treats instead of getting flustered about the dark and cold outside. I totally sign that hygge works and makes the perfect season's ambience in the home. I have never been the one to do any kind of seasonal decorations, but I guess you could say this year with so many visitors and all I figured it is time to try

Part of my Christmas is always having a sauna, and preferrably one with a wood stove. We are incredibly lucky to have one right in our yard. After having lived in an apartment in the center of Rovaniemi we found our current home a few years back. The lot with a sauna sitting in the yard was a major plus, even though it postponed the idea of having a small cabin further north in Lapland anytime soon. So the sauna is in traditional Finnish 50s style a little building with a sau