Glitter & Sparkle
Life like a busy bee , probably as it should be for my energetic personality ... very happy at the moment that I did decide to have an environment friendly Christmas as in " less is more and better " our christmas tree is so small that it is completely perfect as a table decoration .. the forest have the unique power to create oxygen from carbon dioxide .. the planet have an excess of carbon dioxide and I will not take an enviromental warrior from the forest ...
`Tis the season to glitter and sparkle .. and thats lovely but we can do it in a smaller way , good for your stress levels and everything else happening around us during the holiday season , let it glitter , be the joy - less is really more and thats wonderful !
Photo above and below borrowed from @mousserande.se
So this little sparkling bee am in the hotel kitchen trying her best ... I am also putting in hours at the dementia home around the corner , I love my friends there with their moments of clarity in between the darker times .. it is probably easy to forget that we all are getting older and so many things can happen , my fathers wife Sonia got Alzheimers as soon as she stopped working and that was a heavy burden for him to carry .. so I am delighted to help out especially around Christmas time .. am also having Kiki all the time on my mind , we did talk the other day , making spring plans ... plane tickets have to be bought !!
Also helped my daughter to move , since her tenant moved out so she could finally get back to her own space after more than two months in my petite home , but I of course loved to have her here close , am such an egoiste ...
Meanwhile I keep to my basics - asparagus , avocado , eggs , fish , seafood , mushrooms , walnuts , flaxseeds , pineapple , garlic , lemon ,hummous, peanutbutter & coffe of course ... I am not addicted to coffe we´re just in a commited relationship ...
It would be terrific to have a simple answer to complex problems ...
Theres a few days left to Winter Solstice , when it will be a couple of minutes lighter everyday ... and right after that Christmas Eve - which will be spent in peace & quiet with daughter in this house , I am planning a beautiful Cheese & Chark board , eggnog and nice drinks , probably some sparkling rose plus chocolate of course ... I recently did read that 9 out of 10 people are in love with chocolate ... the 10th person lies Xxx
And there are books to be read I have wanted to read Nikos Mandis thick novel The Blind Ones for some time , and the time is now .. my christmas reading time ...
pic above Is from the place in Athens my brother did love most , he was after all a captain and boats was his big love , my thoughts go to him and his short life a lot , this time of the year ...
Wave after wave .. soon mermaid time again .. visions , visions ...
Be well , eat well , hug well , dance well , put on music loud well , cook well , kiss well , love well and most of all be kind , keep believing in the best in people , we will only get the amazing stuff , if we believe it exists ... love does grow in the most unlikely of places ...
Chris
from GrammasKitchen
at the moment in beautiful Sörmland , completely without snow !