He just forgot "a family"...

"May I a small house and a large garden have; and a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise, and both delightful too!"

Abraham Cowley

In harmony...

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi

I think this must be my goal for the new year!

Preparing for Christmas

I really love this time of the year! It's a time to do things that you have done every year ever since you were a child. I love traditions! And I love to make new traditions for my family. This year we have made a kind of sausages that is a tradition from my husband's family. It was the first time we have tryed to make them, and it turned out well! It was rather fun too (even though I'm a vegetarian at heart...)! And it is such a satisfaction to make food for the winter and fill up the freezer. You feel so prepared and secure! My children and I have also made traditional Christmas cookies, as we do each year.
Now the Christmas greetings are sent, the Christmas presents are baught (unfortunately I haven't a single homemade present, we have been ill for several weeks, so there has not been enough time to make any) and the house will hopefully be clean and sparkling very soon ;) But is this the most important things about Christmas? I try to not let them be! But oh my! I must admit, they take too much time and space from all that Christmas is really about: The little child in the manger, born for us. Dear Lord, help us all to focus most of all on the birth of Christ and not on the things the commercial world want us to believe is necessary for having a wonderful Christmas.

Happiness...

"The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuin interest in all the details of daily life and in elevating them to art."

William Morris

Why have so much stuff..?

"He who would travel happily, must travel light."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do we need luxury?

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

Henry David Thoreau

Less is more

How many things are there which I do not want.

Socrates