A Christmas without snow?

I've always celebrated Christmas at home with my family. Let me tell you how a Christmas day would be in my family.
In the morning...
I wake up (and i can wake up whenever i want:) to the smell of my mom's cooking preparations for Christmas dinner in the evening. Oh boy, i can tell you that woman can cook!
Then my sister and i watch all the usual programs that they show on tv (we are still in our pyjamas). Cinderella is one of the movies i've come to love. It's not the kind of movie you would expect to watch tho. It's made in the Czech Republic in 1973. And it's pretty funny too, cuz it's dubbed into norwegian, and it's only one guy talking for all the characters (You can still hear them speak in the background!). It's such a sweet movie.
After that we have RISENGRYNSGRØT (some sort of a norwegian type of porridge). It is SO good. You cook the sweet rice for about an hour, and then add butter, sugar and cinnamon on top of it. Yam!
The fun part is that we put one sinlge almond in the porridge, who ever gets it gets a present:-)

In the afternoon we dress up and go to church.

Evening...
O, how i love the smell of mom's food! (I usually help her prepare the food early in the morning) The sweet smell of her famous home-made potatosalad, spare-ribs, pinnekjøtt (salted and dried rib of mutton; only eaten during christmas), christmas sausages, mashed swede (oh la la, my favourite!), vegetables cooked for a long time in the meat sauce (mm!), and then of course the gravy.

Oh my goodness! Look at that delicious piece of thing!!

Then when dinner is all done, it's time to read the story of when Christ was born. I love this part, and i never get tired of reading it.

Finally it's time to open the presents. This is also one of my favourite parts. I love to see all the faces as they open their presents.
After the presents are opened and played with, it's time for dessert...

I'm not even gonna go there, the list is too long. But one thing you should know, it's goooood...

The night is still young, but we are all so ridiculously full, that we're all nackered. So we just hang out and talk and look some more on our presents.
If we're lucky it's snowing outside.

Nothing is like a Christmas Eve when it suddenly starts to snow.

Later that night...
I cuddle into my blanket thinking: Man, i love Christmas...