My Norwegian Christmas in pictures...

Christmas dinner at H.'s mother... her tree, though artificial, was splendid and I smiled seeing at least three ornaments I made for her during the years hanging there too..

H. got us a lovely assortment of traditional Norwegian Christmas cakes... for your enjoyment, I added their names...

After dinner, my H. distributed the gifts... a lot of joy and smiles!

Back at home, we continued celebrating with a tradition we have in my family, introduced by my father when I was a kid... the tailed part of the family gets a gift too! When it was only a dog, a double sausage was hanging directly on the tree :)

Happy the dog got a gift as well but he was very quick at eating it, so - no picture! LOL

Answering questions: Toska stayed at my aunt... it was no sense to stress her with a plane trip just for 6 weeks.
The cat-boys names are Felinek (black and white boy) and Lucky (grey and white boy). I liked your suggestions around Loki and similar names, but H. wasn't fond of it... close to it, we chose Lucky - because he is lucky, isn't it? :)

Over the next days, we relaxed A LOT! Just the way we wanted it...!

We got tons of snow and low temperatures... -23 Celsius yesterday (9 Fahrenheit?) Here's what H.' mother neighbouring little house looks like:

Our garden looks idyllic but I could only take that picture as the rest of the land is inaccessible because of all the snow :)

Happy enjoys it... moderately...

He seemed to say - 'Am I a seal or what?'

More later....