▷ MY SWEDISH CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS 

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

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.

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 🙏

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

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 😁🇸🇪💛💙

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

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. 🙏

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. ❤️

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

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

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

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.

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!

BEAUTIFUL! IT LIGHTENED THE DAY!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

Just so so lovely!

Thankyou Maria , that was lovely

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!

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

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.

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

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

Love everything you are doing!!!

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

Such a cozy little Christmas!!

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.

From mexico!! Love swedishhh traditions god julll

Recently i found your RU-vid 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

So nice to see different traditions, thank you 😀💖

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

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.

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.

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.

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.❤️

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!

Beautiful and interesting video. Thank you

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.

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

This warmed my heart so much

I just adored this * thank you for sharing.

Lovely Christmas traditions❄🎄

This is such a lovely and cozy video! 😍

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)

Love watching your videos

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

I like your rings so much!

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.

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

Merry Christmas 🎄🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

The Angel candle holder is beautiful 💗🌼💗

Ok...I’m hooked on your channel. You are a gift🙏

Amazing

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!

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

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.🌲🌲

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. 😊👍🇨🇦

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

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 🎄

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.

Amazing video. Thku♥️🌺

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

LOVELY LOVELY VID!!!!!

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

Hello. I love your tradition too💜✈️🥳

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!

Love the way u live ur life....💝

amazing

Thanx for sharing your tradition nice. Love maria. From india 👍

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

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.

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.

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

So Beautiful.

Merry Christmas to you and your family

♥️ Merry Christmas From Tennessee !

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

Very nice!

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!

We celebrate the birth of Jesus. I'm pretty sure December 25th wasn't His actual birthday, ( I guess it is about a 1 in 365 chance though) but it is a special time to honor Him just like we celebrate other's birthdays. We, as Christians, love and honor Him every day but this is just a sweet and special time for us to remember what God has done for us. I wish love and blessings to you all!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.