{"id":428,"date":"2013-12-13T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:21:43","slug":"happy-liljulaften","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2013\/12\/13\/happy-liljulaften\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Liljulaften"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday of this week I e-mailed Joanna # 16, Remains of Innocence, to my editor in New York.\u00a0 It was, as Helen Reddy would say, “a long hard climb.”\u00a0 Books do not necessarily come to order just because I want them to or because a deadline is bearing down on me or is past!\u00a0 Books are like babies, they come in their own good time–when they are ready.<\/p>\n

So I did not expect to be finishing a book in the second week of December.\u00a0 It’s Christmas after all, and finishing the book on Monday means that I have exactly SIX days to get ready for Christmas.\u00a0 All of you may have just looked at your calendars and said to yourselves, six days?\u00a0 What’s she smoking?\u00a0 There are way more days than that.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, not in THIS house.\u00a0 Our big family Christmas celebration is called Liljulaften, and it happens, depending on the timing of Christmas that year, either the Sunday before Christmas or the Sunday a week and a half before Christmas.\u00a0 Guess which Sunday that is this year!<\/p>\n

My mother was a great one for not “chewing her cabbage twice.”\u00a0 I explained all about Liljulaften last year.\u00a0 If you don’t believe me, here’s a link that should send you to last year’s post: Liljulaften, December 21, 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I read in Dear Abby or Ann Landers about families battling about where to go for holiday celebrations, I want to whack them over the head and hand them my mother’s recipe dodging that “it’s my turn” bullet.<\/p>\n

So this will be a short blog post today.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 I’ve got my Amex card in my pocket, and I’m off to the races!!!<\/p>\n

Happy Liljulaften, folks, and for the Scandinavians out there?\u00a0 Yes, we’ll be having lefse, but this house is definitely a lutefisk free zone.<\/p>\n

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