Ingrid and her friends often have eating challenges, where the point is to get the other to eat weird and disgusting things. Each girl picks a bunch of foodstuffs, aiming for things that she wouldn’t mind eating but that the other won’t want to eat: peanut butter, sweet chili sauce, pickled cucumber, soy sauce… Then they draw lots to decide who gets to eat what.

Today we had our traditional Christmas baking day: lussebullar and gingerbread cookies. The gingerbread dough would not co-operate but stuck to the table all the time, so Eric was kneading in more flour and rolling it out again and again. Which the kids found incredibly boring – but they also didn’t want to miss a single moment of making the cookies, so they stayed and waited.

We all had our different ways of making time pass.
I took photos.
Ingrid chatted to a friend.
Adrian ran back and forth through the studio.

Disco class – warmup and stretching.

This week is the last week for Ingrid’s dance classes for this week. The last lesson doubles as a dress rehearsal for their show, and parents are allowed to sit in the dance studio and watch.

Today is hip hop/street dance; tomorrow is disco.

Ingrid may not be a born street dancer – the disco moves come much more naturally to Ingrid, and to most other girls here – but after 10 weeks of practice, she can walk with some real attitude.

It’s the first Sunday of Advent, and we’re baking lussekatter. She particularly likes making plaits and twists.

Reading. Minecraft. Youtube.
Christmas. Hopes of upcoming vacations. Why are school breaks so short and why do we have so much homework.