First candle

Today marks the first advent, we all sat around the table enjoying breakfast by candle light. We have two different advent candle sets in the house, and this one I put together yesterday {got the inspiration from a few blogs from Sweden I follow}. However for my tags I used vintage music paper and then printed the numbers on them. And the bottles are both old and newer, and I'm not sure why the candles in the picture look like they are all swinging to the right.

This brings me so many memories of when I was a child, of my mums fantastic fresh baked breads and dark Swedish winter mornings {I'm born in Finland but lived in Sweden, but our Christmas season feast(s) was always a combination of food from both countries}. Mum would get up way before the rest of us and she would bake and prepare for Christmas, she would do this for a good month ahead and at times it felt like she never left the kitchen. She made a ton of different bake goods, my favourite was {and still is} plum stars, ginger bread cookies and Karelian pasties {karjalanpiirakka}. Thinking about all of this, I had to call mum and sure enough, she got up early today and she baked and lit her advent candle. So she is still going strong with her baking and traditions, sure wish I could just go over there and share the moment with her. Happy first Advent mum, love you.