{"id":2663,"date":"2011-12-27T17:19:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:19:31","slug":"a-little-swedish-in-our-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2011\/a-little-swedish-in-our-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A little Swedish in our Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Halmbock\"<\/a>Last year I experienced my first full blown Swedish Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year we decided to take a trip across the pond to visit my family in Montana. I didn’t want my Swede to feel homesick, so we brought some things to make it a Swedish Christmas as well.<\/p>\n

First off, I wanted to bring something special to my mom that was very Swedish, for Christmas, not too expensive, and light weight.<\/p>\n

The “halmbock”, which translates to weird straw goat, which everyone seems to have as a Christmas ornament seemed like a perfect option.<\/p>\n

Luckily it didn’t get too smashed in the luggage!<\/p>\n

Another thing that everybody loves at Christmas time is candy. So I decided to bring some Swedish candy.<\/p>\n

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While “Bilar” or “cars”, aren’t only at Christmas time, they are still pretty good and got eaten up quickly.<\/p>\n

The Christmas “SkumTomtar”, or “foam Santas” are a perfect Christmas only time treat. My brother described them as “If clouds had a taste, they would taste like this”.<\/p>\n

\"skumtomtar\"While both of these things do bring a little Swedish to Christmas time, it wasn’t complete. There was something missing.<\/p>\n

What could it be? Easy! Kalle Anke at 3pm!<\/p>\n

We couldn’t do it exactly at 3pm as my brothers wanted to watch football. But we did have time for “Kalle Anke” (Donald Duck) in Swedish, and the whole family enjoyed it!<\/p>\n

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In case some of you are new to Sweden and Swedish freak, it is a tradition in Sweden that at 3pm on Christmas eve the whole country turns on the TV and watches an old Disney cartoon. This cartoon has classic Disney cartoons that I have seen before, as well as newer ones from newer films.<\/p>\n

This definitely makes for a Swedish Christmas. So we didn’t have all the Swedish food<\/a> like meatballs and sausages, meat cuts, etc. But we did manage a little Swedish in our Christmas this year.<\/p>\n

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