Our First Danish Christmas and New Year!
Happy New Year, friends and family! God Nytår! This was our first Christmas and New Year's outside the U.S., and I think Zac and I were both worried about whether the kids would enjoy the holidays without being surrounded by friends and family and chaos. We were also not sure how to celebrate. We're in kind of a world between worlds here, if that makes sense. We liked some of our Christmas and New Year's traditions from years past, and it's always comforting to do things that are familiar. On the other hand, we are in a new place with some really fun customs, so we wanted to try out a few of those, too. The result of blending the U.S. and Danish holidays was really nice. Pre-Christmas (21-23 December) The Christmas season wouldn't be complete without cookies! But do we bake Grandma Debbie's old fashioned sour cream cookies, which we've eaten every single year of our lives for ever and ever, or do we make all the fun traditional Danish holiday cookies: vanilj...