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Sankta Lucia - Sharing with the nursery


Today has been Saint Lucia's day in Sweden (there's a link to a post with more facts about the day at the end of the piece) along with Midsummer it is one of our biggest celebrations during the year so I went in to our eldest's nursery class during the afternoon to share with them some traditional snacks, music and stories about Swedish Christmas with her classmates. This morning I had asked if she wanted to wear her gingerbread dress (one of the common outfits for the younger children to wear for the Lucia procession - you'll see her younger sister happily donning her dress a bit further down) but she wanted to be "more beautiful" and picked another dress. She's a little girl who knows her will very clearly and so I let her pick what she wanted to wear, apparently she'll wear her gingerbread dress tomorrow... Last year her nursery teacher had made little clay candle holders with them for Lucia (I was in the midst of pregnancy sickness) and our eldest had refused point blank on the day itself, the next day she demanded to do it on her own... As I said she knows what she wants! (Apparently she tried to get the whole class to make new candle holder again this year so there's nothing wrong with her memory!)


Recipes for my SAFFRON BUNS & GINGER-FREE BISCUITS if you want the real deal when it comes to the biscuits there will be plenty of other recipes out there for you!



At the nursery we started by looking at a map and talking about where Scotland and Sweden are in relation to each other. I told the kids that the Vikings came from Scandinavia and one of the boys gleefully told me about their horned hats (I didn't have the heart to correct him) and then he told me they killed dragons. I couldn't help myself and replied "yes, they were too good at it that's why there aren't any dragons left." 
I then told the kids a bit about Lucia in as kiddie friendly way as I could think of and the girls helped me sing a few songs for their friends. Then all the kids were really good and tried the biscuits and buns we had along despite them both having flavours not everyone likes.


   After the snack I realised that the baby, who'd woken up with a grotty eye, had in fact not just had a bit of sleep in his eyes but seemed to be getting conjunctivitis. One of the nursery staff members mentioned that I might be able to get him medication straight from the pharmacy. So off we all went, only to be told he has to go to the doctor's first because he's under 2. Packed everyone back into the car and drove down to the health centre. I had no credit on my phone to call first but as I spend a lot of time at the health centre; not just for the kids' regular appointments but Elis' extra ones and I have pretty frequent ones for my fibromyalgia; they know my face well and I decided to chance it without an appointment. We live a good 15-20 minute drive outside town so I figured I was better to gamble than go home, call and have to go back in. SO glad I did! His health visitor was in and she was able to prescribe him ointment for his eye. It did of course mean I had to get everyone back in the car, drive back to the pharmacy and wait for the prescription to be ready before we could head home. 

Luckily all the kids were actually helpful and well behaved despite the massive detour home, this could easily have been a super stressful adventure! But now he can hopefully have a nice and speedy recovery, meanwhile I'm trying to figure out what the rash child #1 has all over both her hands is, it seemed to appear out of nowhere at bedtime and looks awfully sore! All fun and games this parenting gig, and shortly I'm off to a rehearsal (with baby in tow)...

For more information about the Swedish Lucia celebrations you can visit the slightly more factual post I wrote HERE.

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