5 days

Well now there are only five days left to Christmas. Last weekend was quite buisy. the childerenschoir sang in the church and I was also both playing and singing myself. On friday there is going to be a concert at the seminari where my seminarychoir is singing and then on Christmaseve the childerenschoir again, will lead the whole service in the chappel at the Norwegian school.  like all this Christmas stuff but it will also be nice to have vacation. I starting to get tired and after the new year I´m not going to be working very much outside the home.

It´s always a littlebit strange to celebrate Christmas in this sunny and hot weather but it´s not bothering me at all. Of course we try to keep our traditions from home, we sing Icelandic Christmassongs and hymns and we make christmascoockies, gigngerbread and so on. I made this most fabulous gingerbreadhouse on friday, but for some reason it became very soft en fell down yesterday. The childeren were actually quite happy about that because then they can eat it right away!

now we´ve got a little rabbit in the house. The childeren are really loving it, exept Dagbjartur Elí who is still allittle afraid of it. She is so cute, well we still don´t know if it´s a boy or a girl but we know that she only got three legs! She´s doing fine though and Margrét Helga and Jóel are carrying her aroun all the day long. For the time being she is sleeping in a cage inside but I guess when she´s big enough she can stay outside together with the othar rabbit. There is a big rabbitcage in our yard and when we moved in there was this one rabbit from former inhabitants of this house. Yesterday the neighbours gardener also found a tortouse and gave it to the childeren. We used to have two of those but they escaped!

I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas an blessings for the coming new year!