ADVENT CALENDAR DOOR 21. *ginger bread Christmas tree and ”Here am I/Tässä olen minä”*

DOOR 21. OPENS…

A free translation:
Here am I
Here am I too
Here’s neighbor’s German spitz chasing my 6-year-old little sister
After that, the sister fell on the asphalt
Mother covered the knee with a patch
Here father mows the grass
and a brother fishing for perch
Here I am
Chorus:
every day I remember again how inevitably time decreases
Unnoticed time I’ve been too long away from home
A silver blue BMW on its way to a landfill
for the brother took the girls to look at the cows at the fort of kyli
Not me, I was taken by other stuff
I was taken by other stuff
Not very far but insisted on committing miles
Every day I remember again how inevitably time decreases
Unnoticed time I’ve been too long away from home
Here am I
Here am I too
Here’s neighbor’s German spitz chasing my 6-year-old little sister
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This song is one of my favorites and specially on this exceptional year when we have not been able to move normally, I think many of us can identify with the corus line: ”Unnoticed time I’ve been too long away from home.” I kind of feel the same way. I haven’t been my childhood home since long long time (only visited to take the postal and emptying the refrigerator because the apartment have been empty since my mother was taken to the nursing home this autumn, after the long hospital episode). Also as part of you knows, my father died last year. When this is combined with the fact that I have not been able to see my mother now on pandemia time, this all have made me feeling quite empty. My childhood home no longer exists. Even the apartment exists, the most important thing family is missing which makes home a home. So this chorus is true to me! Also I love photos so the song idea ”showing” photos to the listener is just great!

Went unmentioned yesterday but it is still not too late to mention that my decorated gingerbreads https://tanssitytto.wordpress.com/2020/12/21/advent-calendar-door-20-my-gingerbreads/ would be beautiful, for example, hung on a Christmas tree. I too would love to implement it but we only have a little table tree and all of those smaller ginger breads we have in ginger bread tree. The rest of the standard ginger breads had been eaten by my housemate who wanted to get them as soon as they came out of the oven…(and yes, I ate few of those too…)

Last evening I made this ginger bread tree.
That gluhwein is my favorite. I love mildly alcoholized gluhweins most. The aromas are at their best when there’s little bit alcohol but not too much.

GOOD NIGHT!