We celebrated St. Lucia Day for the first time this past Saturday. P. is learning about Christmas around the world at school and was asking about our heritage, so we have been incorporating all of our ancestors traditions into our Christmas celebrating this year. For example, we put lights in the windows as they do in Ireland; we celebrated St. Nicholas Day as they do in Germany; and we are going to find the first star on Christmas Eve like they do in Poland, as well as having crackers at dinner like they do in England. (That should about cover it!)
Anyway, the kids made their St. Lucia hats and learned the song. We had a traditional Swedish dinner and the kids had their processional complete with candles and pepparkakor that night. We had so much fun doing it and the food was awesome! I think we will make this a yearly tradition!
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