For this year is celebration of midsummer over in Sweden. It has been nice weekend with friends and family. Also this year, as other years, I have tried to combined midsummer traditions from Estonia and from Sweden.
This years lunch was traditional Swedish midsummer lunch with new fresh potatoes, creme fraiche, herring and midsummer shot. We also had good egg halves with shrimps. Tasted good. Also as one Swedish tradition is, when I had made strawberry cake. No one have never explained me, why this is a tradition but I still liked to make something good.
In evening it was time to have bit Estonian traditions. Marinated shashlik and fresh potato salad was exactly what we needed and after that we just enjoyed the good time with talk and so. I also could light a fire, what is another tradition from Estonia. It is one of the thing, what is must in midsummer in Estonia and since I have grown up with those traditions and I love the living fire. It gives so good feeling and lets to forget all the things what makes trouble in the brain and I just can enjoy the fire.
In this year, I wished that I could spend midsummer in Estonia, but not surprisingly, I cannot do it. Not much of my plans have went as I would have wished during this year. It would had been nice to have a traditional midsummer with friends and family in Estonia, but hopefully another time I can have it.
This midsummer was good another ways for me and that I have written in my other blog entries. This year I could celebrate midsummer with friends and family here and that was also good. On Saturday we had quiet day at home. Drove one friend home and got visit another friend. Else we just enjoyed day together with my husband and booked my flight to home to Estonia, so that I can see my family and to talk in Estonian language again.
This year we had that kind of traditions. Will see, what next year has with it and how the midsummer will be then.
Have a nice evening,
Love,
Ingrit
