This year the fourth Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve fall onto the same day. So Christmas Eve is going to arrive very quickly this year! 🙂
I love the memories about the Advent Sundays during my childhood. Here I copy some of the memories:
https://en.pons.com/translate/german-english/kokeln
mit Kerzen/Streichhölzern kokeln
toplaywith [lighted] candles/matches
A few years ago I mentioned ‘kokeln’ in one of my posts. I wrote:
‘At this time of the year memories keep coming back about how we celebrated the Advents Sundays during the late 1930s and early 1940s. During those years we always had an ‘Adventskranz’ with four, thick, usually red, candles. On each Advent Sunday one more candle would be lighted. The ‘Kranz’ was made up of fresh fir-tree branches. When we sat down with one, two, three or four candles lit, my little brother and I would be allowed to do some ‘kokeln’, but of course always under supervision by Mum. ‘Kokeln’ would mean that Mum gave us a beautiful fresh twig of the fir-tree branches to hold over a burning candle. This made a fantastic smell. Oh, how we loved this smell. I could tell, Mum loved it too. This quickly brought us into the mood to sing some Christmas songs.’
Yes, the smell was fantastic!
AuntyUta 