Status Updates From Keeping Christmas: Yuletide...

The poor immigrants coming here to the great plains where they suffered terrible isolation and loneliness.

Well, at this point I am getting bored over the big squabble about when Christmas ends? Who cares? It is either the 13th day or the 20th day. I never heard this nonsense before. These people are way too OCD. When I was growing up Christmas ended when my sister and I took down the tree and we did that at our convenience; we didn't get all "rule following" about it. These people have way too many rules! Boring!

The people in rural areas were extremely afraid of the nissa and of trolls. Some of them still are!

Even today, many Norwegians says it isn't really Christmas unless the house smells of deep-fat frying. (yuck)
"Flatbrod and lefse, with an even long history than any of the cookies I've described, remain popular in today's Norway. Dry, crisp flatbread constituted the Norwegians' daily bread at least as long ago as the Viking age (about 800-1000). (Yeast bread as we know it remained rare in Norway until the 170

Dear Mary, So you would like to know what Christmas was like in my young days: It was beautiful! On Christmas Eve, with the house all scrubbed clean, we dressed up in our best and sat down to lefse and lutefisk, rice pudding, fruit cake and all, just like they had in Norway.
Christmas Day, we went to church.
On the second day of Christmas we had our "Christmas Tree" program at the church. Then I dressed up

Paused this book after the Christmas holiday season. I enjoyed it and think I will like to pick it up again next Fall.

Interesting but very dry.