New Year’s Eve 2018-2019
[Photos taken on 31 December 2018 – 01 January 2019, posted online 08 July 2019. As this is being written, we’re formally on summer holiday, yay!]
New Year’s Eve was a customary one, with us hanging out with Finnur’s family at their big party. (I just checked, and apparently I spent the day blogging about Bjarki’s 11 year old party, which is funny as we just celebrated his 12th yesterday!)
The evening was fun as always, and all talk of fireworks being a silly waste of money drowned in a shower of fireworks…! (45-ish images total)
Calm Days Between Yule and the New Year
[Photos taken on 26-30 December 2018, posted online 30 June 2019. We’ve finally got some rain and clouds, but there’s quite a bit of yellow grass around still.]
We were all on holiday between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, because there were only two working days separating the two.
We mostly took it veeeery easy, there was one family gathering, we played computer games until late at night, went swimming, I did make it to the gym a few times, and all in all it was quite nice. (15-ish images)
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Anna’s 15th Birthday / Christmas Day 2018
[Photos takend on 25 December 2018, posted online 24 December 2019. It rained last night, here’s hoping the burn grass feels better.]
Christmas Eve rolled into Christmas Day, and thus Anna’s 15th birthday!
It was a fairly typical 25 December. We made desserts to take to Finnur’s parents’ place and then Anna opened her presents. The party was well attended, the food was excellent as always, social whist was played, dessert was eaten, and Anna even got some more presents!
All in all, a very good day! (40-ish images total)
Christmas Eve 2018
[Photos from 24 December 2018, posted online 23 June 2019. The still no rain for realz since early May. Also, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite came out today.]
Yule-day came and went pretty much as expected. We had my mom and one brother over for dinner, Finnur was master chef as usual, the kids managed to not go quite crazy, and I think I didn’t land my self in a need-to-finish-at-the-last-minute job like the last two previous times. All in all, a highly lovely yule!
Gingerbread Houses – 2018 Edition
[Photos taken on 23 December 2018, posted online on 22 June 2019. Such a contrast between these images taken in the rampant darkness, and the never-ending cloudless brightness at this time of year!]
I’ve mostly given up on the Instagrammable house-life (there seems to be a Conservation Law of Disarray at work in our house), but I do hang on to making a gingerbread house from scratch for yule. The kids also make sure to remind me, still remembering the horror of the no-gingerbread house yule a few years ago.
It’s almost a custom by now that we rope Holla and Óli into the ginger bread madness, and this year was no exception! (30-ish images total)
Triple Birthday Party
[Photos from 20-22 December 2018, posted online on 13 June 2019. It’s been crazy sunny lately, and not a drop of rain for 3 weeks. Weird.]
Like in previous years, we held a joint birthday party for the three cousins, Anna, Ylfa, and Iðunn. It was just a quiet family affair, as the big event of Christmas was looming right around the corner.
The following days were the calm before Yule-day. Sort of… (25-ish images total)
Thursday 20 December 2018
Annual Photo Shoot – December 2018 Edition
[Photos from 16 December 2018, posted online 09 June 2019. We’re having such a fantastic summer that it’s getting eerie.]
This year’s annual photo session of the kiddos went surprisingly smoothly. Maybe it helped that they got a lot of warning, I got lucky that the set-up worked fairly well from the get-go, but they at least managed to play along for about 10 whole minutes, which was all that I needed. (20-ish photos total)
Room Redecorating & Solo Parenting in December 2018
[Photos taken on 01 – 15 December 2018, posted online on 02 June 2019. We’ve had two weeks straight of gorgeous weather, and it’s not even been that cold. The north of the country is still freezing though. Quite unusual.]
Enter December, the month whose only saving grace is that the sun begins being visible for slightly longer each day towards its end, oh, and fireworks!
Anna kept pushing for a new bed, so we used the opportunity while Finnur briefly touched down between work-trips to perform the big bed-switch-a-roo between Anna’s and Emma’s rooms.
Myself and Anna found ourselves repeatedly resting at a cafe while Bjarki did gymnastics, Finnur departed for a 2-week-long stint in California, yule-lights were bought and installed on multiple fronts, food of varying quality got eaten, I went to see a Baggalútur-show, we all went to see a movie, Bjarki had his yule-tide recital, work was busy, and my brother Bjarni competed in body-building! (50-ish images total)
Saturday 01 December 2018
