Monday, December 14, 2009

Santa Lucia before Christmas.


The parents all gather together in school around 14.00. All the kids in the kindergarten will performed to sing 8 Christmas songs for all the adults. Every single proud parents came to see their children sang. Lucia is dressed in white long gown and candles on their head. Gabriel have decided to be a paper cookie boy and he is dressed up in brown. The red is obviously Santa Claus.
No parents are allowed to take any photos while they are performing as it might scares the kids and they will forget their lyrics.
Gabriel Hand Print on the way back from from Lucia. Our first snow that finally stays, as it will be colder and colder this week. Thursday is supposed to be minus 11 and that is why the snow stays to the ground and never melt away.
Gabriel Tornquist and his good friend, Gustav Parent in the classroom after their class concert. All parents are invited to the class room after the concert for coffee and traditional swedish snacks during Lucia. So we mingle around with all the parents in the classroom while the kids played together.
Already started to be very dark here during the winter time at 3 in the afternoon. Somehow today since the snow stays on the ground, it bring much lighter to the day as the whiteness of snow helps.
On the way home........
Cute little Emily Parent watching her elder brother, Gustav performing his Lucia on stage.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

didn't know Santa Lucia was popular also in Sweden...
in our reagion there are towns where SL is more important than christmas itself like Verona.

Ainy Törnquist said...

Lucia has always been popular here few weeks before Christmas. It is majority for all the kids singing and performing in school and sometimes we see them in the city dressed in white and candles on their head singing . Very beautiful.

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