▷ MY SWEDISH CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS

[@christineshanholtz8317]

My grandparents were from Sweden...had 9 children...my mother and father put on a smorgasbord every year for her family...dad learn how to make sill and made a big batch every year. Oh how I miss those days...my small family does not like any of the delicious foods I grew up on. Your video was lovely to see...tack

[@MelissaSaguran-nw1fn]

In our country 🇵🇭 when the calendar turns into September 1st until first week mm of January, Christmas spirit can be felt nationwide ☺️

[@raptorshootingsystems3379]

As a Swedish American, thank you for reminding me of heritage and traditions growing up.

[@MelissaSaguran-nw1fn]

In our country 🇵🇭 when the calendar turns into September 1st until first week of January, Christmas spirit can be felt nationwide ☺️

[@victorialoren2372]

I really enjoy seeing how other Countries celebrate Christmas 🎅🏼🤶🏼☃️❄️🎄 or any other Holidays. God Bless you and enjoy every sec of your life because your not promised tomorrow 🙏

[@ethelilianacervantescaro8792]

My 3rd-grade class watched your video and loved it! We are learning about Christmas around the world. Thank you for sharing your traditions.

[@NorthernHeart]

Aww that makes me so happy! 🙏🏻❤️

[@WhiteTiger333]

When I was a child (in rural Kentucky, USA in the '50s) we also had the candle chime that went around. It was angels. I remember looking up at it on the table, then getting tall enough to touch it (forbidden until we were older!). :D My brother and I would just stand there in the darkened room mesmerized by the candle-light, the movement and the tinkling chimes. One of my best Christmas memories.

[@TheAspiringHomeCook]

It was so lovely to see how Christmas is celebrated in a different part of the world. Thanks for sharing.

[@janicebowlen8929]

I am rewatching all of your wonderful Christmas videos. I hope you are happy and well. You are missed. God bless you and Merry Christmas!

[@eddieflori4336]

BEAUTIFUL! IT LIGHTENED THE DAY!

[@tomvalveede6808]

So wonderful to gain new knowledge of your Special Christmas traditions. Would like to have recipes posted. Thank you for all that you do! Your friend from Kansas City!

[@tezzyteaspoon]

I feel so warm and cozy watching your videos. I love how you describe your traditions infused with a bit of history in all your videos. Thank you for being who you are and all that you do. Sending warm thoughts from across the miles, Teresa from USA

[@andrewmacaulay1585]

Love your channel...you know how to touch the Xmas spirit😊 New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦

[@0104jc]

From mexico!! Love swedishhh traditions god julll

[@patsymillar9447]

In the part of Germany where my family lives , the local priest blesses the doorway of the home on New years eve, and marks the doorway in chalk with the date. By doing this, he is welcoming the Christ child into the home for the year. This also brings luck to the family for the coming year. I think it is a lovely tradition.

[@debiallen4053]

Very sweet traditions. I love the tree. So natural, simple ...just right. Love your videos, sorry I didnt find you sooner. I think I live in a similar climate, in country, on 10 acres of woods. Winters can be hard and long here, with a lot of snow. Northern Michigan, U.S.A. I'll keep watching!

[@cristinavelasco9818]

THANK You so much showing your Christmas tradición and all your hoodies. Saludos👍❤️🇪🇸‼️

[@SweetAndSimpleHome]

So excited your channel popped up in my suggested videos! I love the Swedish Christmas traditions. I’m American and love every little thing you shared. ❤️

[@rebeccaleif874]

I am Swedish. My grandparents came over from Sweden. On Christmas eve we always went to my grandparents for our Swedish Christmas! You didn't mention Tompte! Tompte would ring a bell and leave a bag of presents on the front porch. We all got 1 present. We had a Swedish smorgasbord with swedish meatballs, pigs feet, knuckerbur with muenster cheese, beets, Swedish coffee bread, Swedish cookies, etc! I can't remember all the other foods. I miss those days! Thank you for sharing your Christmas!

[@NorthernHeart]

Hi lovely! The Swedish traditions is actually that he knocks on the door and then comes in and gives either all the gifts away one by one, or at least some of the gifts to the Children, before he goes of and leaves his bag of gifts with the family he just visited ;) Maybe your family changed it up a bit, that happens most of the time. Some traditions are mixed with new ones and you get a mixture of both, which I think is wonderful too! You got a little bit of Sweden and a lot of Sweden with your Christmas food, except the pig feet that is not so common these days. But I think it was more common a few generations back! A warm God Jul from Sweden!

[@RhondaRichter-1234]

Your tree is exactly the kind I get!! They are beautiful. You look so pretty. Enjoy many more. God Bless from North central Wisconsin, USA

[@Beepbopboop19]

What kind is it? I love it!

[@LaBucci]

I’m not Swedish at all but I sure love how the Swedes celebrate Christmas! This just gave me ideas to Swedify my Christmas this year 😁🇸🇪💛💙

[@judylavenue3445]

I just discovered your videos tonight and have been binge watching. I too love the country life and animals. I live in the American countryside and have what amounts to a small zoo. We have parrots,cats, dogs, miniature horses, peacocks, geese, ducks and chickens. I am a retired nurse and watching your videos it appears to me that living in the countryside has been good for your health and most certainly good for your spirit.

[@takeittodehart1507]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful traditions with all your friends . You look beautiful your blues eyes are twinkling ,I love your fireplace and your lovely tree. Happy holidays to you and your family.

[@cubbyoharaclose4562]

We love to watch children's shows too. Since my five children were young, we had a list of feel good movies to put us into the Christmas Spirit. And now they are in their late twenties and thirties, not much has changed. I love to watch them myself! After all, we are all children at heart xxxx

[@kathrynmiller8795]

Love your traditions. I also really like your wood stove. It is beautiful. One of our traditions in America is the sending Christmas greeting cards. They are usually depicting Christmas or seasonal images and now often include photos of the family sending the card. I am also an artist and creating artwork for Christmas cards has been an important part of my art business. I usually work in watercolors for the original art and then translate it into digital images to be printed on the Christmas cards. One of our family's traditions is to put all the Christmas cards that we received during the season into a basket after Christmas and over the next year place one card in a prominent place where we see it daily to be reminded to think of and pray for that specific family or person. It helps us remember them throughout the year not just at Christmas.

[@mikaeleriksson5449]

Same here in Sweden with Christmas greeting cards. Lot of our Christmas tradition has roots way back in time, for ex. some people exhibit a Christmas sheaf outdoors for the birds, from the beginning it was for Odin's horse Sleipner would have something to eat when they came to visit, something of a sacrifice and it would be the first sheaf of the first harvest that year.

[@deborahmcginnis8307]

Love your Christmas card tradition!

[@mortechrome]

I remember the sending of greeting cards from my childhood(and how the Swedish post office sent out notices every year on when you were to send your cards at the latest so ppl would receive them before Christmas eve)-today internet have made it ”rendundant” sadly.

[@psleep4255]

What a lovely tradition. I pray for different people every day and will start this tradition here in Fort Worth, Texas USA. 🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️✨

[@simplyso4363]

I’m fascinated by all those traditions . Absolutely love your cosy Christmasy videos.

[@helenalundqvist]

I am Swediah. I am used to the tradition that, in the early morning of Christmas Day, we go to church, to celebrate that Christ is born. The important reason to why we celebrate Christmas at all. At least what I've been told. Beautiful video, by the way. 🙏

[@BennyLlama39]

Maybe you can refresh my memory... is Sweden where the Santa Lucia traditions come from?

[@helenalundqvist]

@@BennyLlama39 Yes it is.

[@rongablue]

Helena Lundqvist👍 Jesus is the reason for the season. Wishing you a very happy Christmas 🎄

[@stoffni]

@@BennyLlama39 No, it originates from Italy but Swedes celebrate it in a unique way.

[@SaraH-ct4el]

Thank you so much for sharing! My grandma was Swedish, but she passed away when my dad was young so we didn't get much of the culture passed down. It is nice to be able to learn about some of the traditions.

[@lindydavis5214]

I love the Swedish Christmas traditions!here in oregon I always celebrate with my grandparents,grandfather is full Swedish.we drink the same drinks,with different pastries,cookies,cheese,crackers,smoked meats.supper was always ham.plus celebrate the new st.lucia .my favorite time of the year.when we exchange gifts we always give a gift we have made ourselves.

[@Clutching.My.Pearls]

I love the beauty in the simplicity of your decorations and traditions. Merry Christmas!

[@knitty781]

I enjoy watching the Christmas holiday videos year round as a way to keep me on track for Christmas knitting. I also enjoy learning about other ways the holiday is celebrated. And Hygge. It is something I am incorporating in to my life after 30 years of raising children. The idea of Hygge is really helping me simplify the clutter, both real and emotional, in my life.

[@mariecarroll5793]

Thank you for sharing, love to hear of other christmas traditions all over the world

[@gloriaviktorija]

YOUR EYES ARE sooo BEAUTIFUL, very angelic in the natural window light,, wonderful!! love your videos so much! it is like traveling to the North!

[@Olson185]

Did you notice it looked like Maria had crosses for irises? Must have been a reflection of something...cool idea for contact lenses, though.

[@Jenniferde2007]

This is lovely as the season approaches...thank you. I love the simplicity of your tree and I am sure it smells heavenly. I will order an Anglaspel for my home just as another commenter did, I am of Austrian background and we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve as well. God Bless!

[@marshaflorom5036]

Adding lights and celebrating Christmas eve and Christmas day in America! Thanks for your traditions! Marsha

[@cpearl8403]

Will you give us your turnip recipe for this Christmas? It looks gorgeous!

[@Chrystallaki]

Merry Christmas!!! Lovely traditions!!!

[@aashaysatarde6583]

Hi, I am from India, I like to watch u r videos because they are so interesting, and I have desire to know about ur Swedish country and its culture, bye.....

[@LadyBlanche.888]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I have taken some wonderful ideas from what you said as I love the Swedish way of life and all things Swedish!

[@Bhdez62]

Merry Christmas just because I’m watching it now lol.. I love Christmas all year round it’s my favorite.🎄

[@leilal8053]

Me too!😊

[@amylugar]

Love everything you are doing!!!

[@NorthernHeart]

Thank you so much Amy, it really warms my heart!

[@blacksheep11277]

Lovely. Thank you for sharing such beautiful traditions! Greetings from Maine, U S A!

[@NorthernHeart]

Thank you so much, I'm glad you like it! Sending you a big hug from Sweden :)

[@user-gw1nc8fs2u]

Your style of cooking is pure art! Such a good taste! Also the photographies and videos, you are like an artist.

[@smurph4959]

The Angel candle holder is beautiful 💗🌼💗

[@Serenadesong]

Angel chimes are beautiful and your little doggies are the cutest I have ever seen :)

[@cristinamorenolamin3217]

God Jul or as we say in Peru..... Feliz Navidad!

[@Lori42ish]

We celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas. We go ice skating, we decorate our tree as a family and drink eggnog, we always bake stuff for our neighbors, adopt a family in need. We absolutely love Christmas. Love your videos.❤️

[@imasnowwhite3592]

What a nice and heartwarming video, thank you Maria. I'm watching this in November 2019 and I love it, because I love Christmas at all. I live upon the mountains in the Black Forest in the southwest of Germany and we're also celebrating Christmas eve at the 24th of December. I don't need big presents for Christmas but I want to have a big tree, many candles, my self made Christmas cookies, Glühwein (don't know how to translate this😁), a lovely fire in the wood stove and having a good time together with my two boys and my boyfriend.

[@Heffsta02]

This warmed my heart so much

[@NorthernHeart]

Thank you so much, I hope to bring more Christmas related videos this Christmas!

[@DawnStr8]

I took notes today and made a list of everything I want this year for my American/Swedish Christmas Eve...I even went onto Amazon and ordered a Anglaspel (Nativity). 😊 I love your videos.

[@greyferguson9319]

I have Swedish ancestors, so I grew up with a lot of these traditions. We always had Christmas Dec. 24 with oyster stew for supper. Always many cookies and pastries. Muss celebrating with all the family.🌲🌲

[@mslicioussassylips]

I love your traditions Maria. What a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas.

[@monikabucher5572]

Lovely video, Maria! I grew up in Switzerland, now live in New Zealand. We also still celebrate on Christmas Eve here :). We get together with our children and grandchildren for a nice dinner, usually ham in bread dough and various salads. After that one of the men reads the Christmas story from the Bible, we pray and sing some carols and often the children have some little items. We are Christians, so this part of the celebration is very important. Then we open gifts and end with tea/coffee and Christmas baking, quite a bit some traditional Swiss Christmas biscuits :). May the peace of Christ fill all of your hearts this coming Christmas!

[@JoJo-ic1th]

It is October 29th of 2019 today, two days before Holoween, another tradition we celebrate here in the USA. We carve pumpkins with faces on them and the children go trick or treat and have parties. I just got through watching your Christmas video. Very nice. I love your traditions and enjoyed seeing inside of your home. We here in the USA celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve my children hang stockings so that when Santa comes he can fill them of treats for them. Than they each get to open one present before they go to bed from their Dad and myself, and than they set out a glass of milk and a plate of cookies for Santa, at this time they are already in their pajamas, and than we kiss them good night and than they take their one gift and go upstairs to bed. Than on Christmas morning after mom and dad get up and go downstairs, we get the camera ready and than the children, there is 5 of them, come down stairs and it is so much fun watching the look on their faces when they see all the presents under the tree and their filled stockings. We stay in our pajamas and bathrobes. We all have our stockings first and than we eat a simple breakfast and than we spend the morning opening our gifts. Later in the afternoon we have a big Christmas dinner which Mom cooks while the children play with their toys. Sometimes we go to visit their grandparents or they come to visit us. It is such a wounderful time of the year. So from our house to your house we all send you best wishes for your Christmas Holiday. Love from America. ♡♡

[@coco85949]

Recently i found your KZbin channel , so calming to watch and hear what you share with us ! Thank you ! Especially this one about swedish christmas traditions. Even your eyes twinkle like little stars, so nice !!! Lots of greetings to you from Hamburg

[@robinranney1171]

My grandmother had that glogg recipe in her cookbook she would make it every Christmas..

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

Beautiful and interesting video. Thank you

[@amydusek]

Merry Christmas! Thanks for sharing your traditions. Very lovely!

[@NorthernHeart]

Merry Christmas sweetie, thanks for giving me some love back with your kind comment!

[@pianokeyjoe]

I repeat, I love the northern winter FOODS lol! Wow! In Puerto Rico we have alot of delicious foods year round but in the North it is all very different and delicious too and it is what I love best about winter countries and areas in the USA. Sweden reminds me of what I see in Norway.

[@sensa5645]

I love your country. Its so beautiful. I like your traditional ways in Sweden. Very nice. Your Julgran (Christmas tree) is pretty. I like your traditional foods. Very comforting and cozy home. Merry Christmas to you and your family. 😊👍🇨🇦

[@catherineanderson4755]

Just so so lovely!

[@themamachar]

Beautiful!!!!!! I’m from US. I live in the southern area of Georgia. Love your videos.

[@AmandathePandaBooks]

Simple, nice, easy. I'm into simple!

[@refanggaputra24]

I hope I can visit Swedish at Christmas... Thanks for sharing this.. God bless n Mery Christmas fron Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@patchareeya5057]

Thank you to share a nice tradition of your country. Sweden is far from my country (Thailand) I would like to visit X'mas time in Sweden.

[@karenkoutsoumbaris6308]

Thankyou Maria , that was lovely

[@aboutfeddy]

So nice to see different traditions, thank you 😀💖

[@pamkenel7534]

I love your angle candle stick with a bigger candle. We use to have an older style one that I have seen in one of your newer vlog's but the candles seem to burn fast. I hope to find your recipe for the turnip substitute for ham, it looks delicious!

[@sharmanklinefelter508]

I am part swedish and we included herring in a jar for Christmas and new years plus rice pudding

[@brassen]

Here in southern Brazil there is this version of glögg called "quentão', which we have in our winter solstice days in June, mainly during St John's festivities.

[@NorthernHeart]

Cool! Had no idea! Thanks for sharing!

[@sarnastar]

Maybe this year I visit Sweden in winter. Great climate and this red houses😊😊

[@ashavicky2150]

Love the way u live ur life....💝

[@dickybirdsnest]

Because of you, I'm doing a Swedish Christmas here in Ringle, Wisconsin (USA)

[@CG-sx3no]

Such a cozy little Christmas!!

[@nbenefiel]

I inherited a lot of cookie recipes from my Norwegian grandmother. I start baking the day after Thanksgiving and start giving them away the week before Christmas. Some years I wind up with thousands of cookies, they all get eaten.

[@leilal8053]

Are your Fur-babies "Yorkies" or "Silkies"?.....love your channel. In Italy 🇮🇹 Christmas Eve is more important than Christmas Day too. I especially loved going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, then coming home to hot coffee ☕ with traditional pastries 🍰 and opening the gifts 🎁. Being Americans as well, we did both (Christmas Eve with my cousins, then Christmas day at our home)...more 🎁 gifts. 😊

[@elenapolyashova]

Maria, thank you so much for sharing with us your beautiful life! Adore your channel Puss och kram from Russia 😘(hope, i wrote it correctly)

[@leilal8053]

I LOVE Swedish meatballs...Yum. 😊

[@amybiange7701]

I just adored this * thank you for sharing.

[@NorthernHeart]

Thank you hun, makes me super happy that you like it!

[@jeannetteshealthyover50]

Thank you for this lovely video. I would love to know how you make your baked turnip. I am plant based and we no longer have ham either. Hugs from the US.

[@joshreece9796]

I love all of your videos Maria. Also your puppies are darling. I also have 2 Yorkies. Edgar and Ellie.. I love them so much.

[@JJ-nn9de]

Ahh I love this video so much *____*. I hope you decide to make more Christmas themed videos this year! I love seeing cozy Christmas's. I haven't quite gotten that down on my end (haven't felt "in the Christmas spirit" for quite a few years now) so its super inspiring to see how others celebrate.

[@Simona_nl]

Tack Tact for this Xmassy video! I have the same candle you have and another one with cats. God Jul!

[@NorthernHeart]

Varsågod hun! Thank you for sharing, that candle sure is cozy! God Jul!

[@наталиярозанова-ю7р]

I like your rings so much!

[@Hei_hey]

Traditions are sweet, thanks for video. Learned I have Central Europe, Austrian ancestry. Before celebrated English style with food stuff that was supposed to be old fashioned. Now I try to find websites that sell food shipped from Austria as they have good basic ingredients, special to slow food. Also get presents shipped to US using a mail forwarding service. So find more things that way on Amazon in Germany like wool slippers. Just for fun but feels like travelling.

[@The72challenger]

Well after have lived here in Sweden for 20+ years...I can say, I don't think I have ever gotten used to the Swedish Christmas cuisine...but I do like pepparkakor, revben and of course the MEATBALLS!...😁

[@InFltSvc]

I have been out of touch and miss your videos. I lost my baby brother to a terrible accident The autumn of the year you made this video .. it was the first CHRISTMAS without him and very difficult for my mother as well as the rest of us. I am back and lovin your videos

[@kittytorres3138]

Where can a get a candle holder like that?? That moves around 😱 so pretty

[@laurafernandez584]

I am from Sweden but I live in Switzerland and this made me want to go back to Sweden and live there. Could you show where you can live best ?

[@korneliajewelry]

I just watched this video now 😄 I really really love Christmas and want to celebrate it all year round 😊 Nice to learn more about the Swediqh traditions. Looking forward to the 24th of december already 🎄

[@NorthernHeart]

Thank you so much Kornelia! Makes me so happy that you like it, hope to do even more Christmas videos this December :)

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

All our Swedish Christmas traditions (from ALL FOUR grandparents - I’ve 100% Swedish genes!) is mostly what we have left of our heritage - the Grandma’s cookie recipes and the food traditions plus Donald Duck and some lovely decorations handed down. I treasure them so! All 15 of my cousins do sing the Swedish birthday song even now although we butcher the words because we all just learned it by ear as children. LOL This was wonderful video for me. Tack sa mycket

[@smolville]

The recipe for glogg changed for the Swedes in Amerika. It's pure grain alcohol mixed with fried sugar, water and cinnamon. We still sing glade jul around the tree with the children in the inner circle. The old recipes are slowly forgotten like brandy cookies and potato sausage.

[@georgeholmes1490]

A wonderful presentation, a hearfelt thank you! I will remember to buy glogg, vesterbotten cheese n the other drink in the store,i arrive sweden soon. But then i guess store bought glogg is'nt the same thing, but never mind

[@maryanncable368]

Maria.ilove and find it very interesting about your sweedish. Trationes u do everything nice wish u the best on utube

[@FaustGoodman]

Dear Maria, thanks. It was interesting. We - in Moldova - have a lot of kids going from door to door singing Christmas carols, which usually have anonymous authors. In return the children are given some food and money. However, more more popular here is the New Year eve - the most family festivity (fika ) I may say. Good luck!

[@emilewoodford9487]

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM 🇸🇬 SINGAPORE

[@jeanycataros3050]

Hello. I love your tradition too💜✈️🥳

[@ma.ceciliadelacruz4128]

I wish i could go there in your country, its nice.

[@mynameisneb]

I'm gonna have to do some of these here in the U.S.

[@MakeupAddictSoul]

Love watching your videos

[@janeg9841]

A year later I’m watching this. We always had a Swedish Christmas at my grammas. It was Christmas Eve not day and we had Swedish Meatballs! I always loved my grams tree it was different then most of my friends trees. This reminds me of her ❤️❤️❤️❤️ i still do Christmas Eve with my kids and grands. But I go to IKEA and cheat. Lol

[@Mr.cjandj]

In Guatemala we also celebrate in the 24th