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The Christmas decoration is up. I wear one ugly Christmas sweater after another. (Ok, I own three. And an ugly Christmas T-shirt.) Alexa plays my favorite Christmas songs to me daily. I baked a lot of Christmas cookies last weekend. I visited a Christmas market and had mulled wine. Since early this morning it has […]

Christmas Eve has finally arrived. For us Germans it is the most important of these holidays because we already receive our presents this evening. No patience to sleep and wait for another night, haha. I am in no rush today. Christmas music has been playing for days now, and I still can’t hear enough of […]

To be honest, I am way too lazy to really rock around the Christmas tree. Also it would prove too difficult since I’ve put my Christmas tree into a corner of the living room. And everytime anybody gets too close, the tree sheds loads of needles. That doesn’t stop the cat from brushing against it […]

The first day of vacation is always the greatest in my opinion because there are so many days off ahead, so many possibilities. My Christmas started yesterday at noon. My friend and I celebrated this by having lunch at one of our favorite Thai restaurants in Cambridge. Then I just spent the rest of the […]

I am a huge fan of both “Home Alone” movies. I still remember when I watched the first part for the first time. It was just before Christmas at the start of the 1990s. My then best friend and her family had gone to one of the big outdoor markets at the Polish border where […]