Lucia

This week there were Lucia celebrations at Tage's nursery. Lucia was an Italian saint that is now celebrated by Swedes for some reason that I can't quite remember on the 13th of December (I’m sure the World Wide Web can enlighten those of you who are interested in a history lesson). In a nutshell this entails a procession headed by one person (traditionally a girl but in these times of gender equality, of course everything goes!) wearing a crown of candles on her head. For the children it’s an opportunity to dress up and apart from Lucia there are usually many girls with glitter in their hair and boys tend to dress up as santa or gingerbread men… I know it sounds nuts to those of you who have not experienced it but to those of us brought up with it it’s actually a really nice tradition.

Tage was dressed up in a little red santa suit. He got a little bit scared entering the room were all the parents were sitting but soon calmed down and sat down between me and John as we all joined in the singing of Christmas carols. The actual procession and singing session was a little bit difficult to capture in pictures so therefore you’ll just have to settle for a couple of pictures taken after the performance when coffee was served to the parents and much running around was done by the children.

Also for those that are curious about the Singer-Lundblad gingerbread house you can see it on Poppans blogg