Life in -25°C | Frosty winter days in Northern Sweden

Hey guys! Happy new year! It feels so good to be talking to you again. I feel like I haven't talked to you forever even though I know it's only been like three or four weeks or something but yeah it's nice to be back. I wish you all a very happy new year. I hope you had a lovely Christmas period if you celebrate it and that you had a good start into the new year. I went to Germany to celebrate Christmas together with my family so I stayed down there for two weeks and it was really nice to just have those two weeks of basically doing nothing. I completely ignored my phone and yeah basically just enjoyed the family time doing absolutely nothing other than eating and reading knitting and playing games. I could really feel how this was very much needed to calm down towards the end of the year. Then I came back to Sweden on the day before new year so on the 30th of December. I drove back up and yeah ever since things have been a bit rushed because then we kind of arrived in the evening and had to unpack because the next day we were also going to our friends to celebrate new year which was also very lovely but yeah so it just had to take a couple of days to kind of unpack and settle in again. We also finally had some snow which makes me very happy and it's very cold today. I think we're at like minus 20 or something so it is fresh. But yeah is it just me or has the last year been absolutely crazy? Like honestly I am not very unhappy that it's over and that the new year has started. Like also weather wise it's been such a weird winter so far. Up until recently we didn't have any snow here and even over Christmas I think up here they had plus degrees and even in Germany at my parents place it was colder than here and I don't know if you saw it but like in Iceland they had 20 plus degrees on Christmas eve. That is just so crazy to me. But yeah the snow finally came back. It was literally in the night of new year's it started to snow and everything is now covered again which as I mentioned makes me very happy because I love snow. But yeah it's it's been a wild ride so far. We also had a massive storm here in the area where I live in Sweden after Christmas where yeah basically entire forests got uprooted and a lot of damage has happened and I was really really nervous that something would have fallen onto the house or onto the garage because knowing my luck from last year I just knew that something would have would have been broken. So yeah up until the day that we came back I was super a bit stressed about it that something would have been destroyed. But good news the house and the because not everything has survived and this is the worst part okay let's walk Do you see the moon up there? I don't know if you can see it somewhere there but look my beloved greenhouse did not make it. It got destroyed and I'm so sad about it we have to see if we manage to maybe fix it when the spring comes but yeah for now it looks very sad and there's a tractor coming okay the tractor is gone yeah but yeah unfortunately the greenhouse didn't make it like the whole entrance area crushed and I don't know if it can be saved so we'll have to see. I mean I know it's been a bit of an older greenhouse but it made me so happy it's like the perfect spot for it or fingers crossed we can save something um this is a problem for future spring Sophie so I'm not going to worry about this now but fortunately everything else is okay so that's that's the most important part all right it's really cold now to just stand around here so I think we're gonna go for a walk and you'll come with me and I walked into the forest behind my house and there's so many trees also that fell you can see them here behind me and it makes me so sad like so many trees look also here just like the big one and then oops all of them and here everywhere but yeah it's actually really funny so uh Jimmy and I spent Christmas separately he spent it with his family in Denmark and I spent it at home with my family and on the 30s we were driving back up here and there was no snow at all like where we're driving up it was all brown and green and no snow inside and then at midnight on the 31st when we're celebrating new years it started snowing and suddenly everything was white again and I take it as a good sign that 2026 is gonna be a much better year than this year so if this if the last year hasn't been your year either take it as a sign it's gonna get better I already forgot how cold minus 15 degrees feel after a while so it's time to head home and warm up a little it's also when you wear your big winter boots walking 100 meters feel like you've just run a marathon and I'm always out of breath so quickly so I can basically say I've just done a workout great done for the day almost forgot you so today it's even colder than it was yesterday I think right now we're at minus 20 degrees and it's gonna get colder throughout the day but I really wanted to go outside and just take a little walk around because I think when it's that cold the world looks so beautiful outside so I have to get dressed for the cold and I thought I could just quickly show you how I would dress when it's that cold outside okay as a starter always start with base layers I have this merino wool shirt and the merino wool underpants like long pants that I wear another layer this is a wool sweater and some wool pants then I will be throwing on my ski pants I also have like two pairs of those because you can never have enough ski pants um then of course a wool beanie I'll be having a scarf then I have my thick winter jacket I have a couple of different options but there is two jackets that I would usually opt for because they're my favorite I think one of them I probably wear 90% of the time and the other one 10% of the time yeah and also when it's that cold super important are gloves and mittens I have those thick ones that I really like when it's that cold because they keep you nice and warm but I also now have like this thin pair of merino wool uh yeah gloves and they are really nice because when I'm out I often film with my camera or with my phone and then it gets very cold very quickly on your hand so it's very nice to have like this thin layer on it just as a little protection and then whenever I just walk or do nothing I will throw on the other ones as well and uh yeah that's basically it so layering is very important uh depending how cold it is I also have an extra down jacket that I could uh throw on but this would be more if I know that I'll be standing a lot because when you move usually you get pretty warm pretty quickly so you don't need to wear so many layers all right now let's get dressed and then we can go outside and of course winter boots are also super important uh you always want to buy them a little bit bigger than your feet are so that they can build like this layer of heat around your feet but I've got those thick ones and they were really nice like um I have worn them in all kinds of temperatures and they keep me really warm but they also make life it is more difficult when you wear those heavy like big boots to walk longer distances so I also have some other like let's call them smaller shoes um also with spikes when it's very icy and yeah I have a couple of different options but I would say those are the ones I usually opt for if I just go outside somewhere in the area close by and there's a lot of snow and I can definitely see that I had some little visitors I love that about winter that you always see on like the footprints in the snow if some animal had been there there's some deer prints so the deers were here I see them very often here in this area I also really want to try out this experiment you know when you throw boiling water into the air when it's that cold so I have some boiling water I'll try it out not sure if that will work we'll see I'm just too scared to do it above my head so I think this will do okay I just ran inside to get a refill I'll try again this time I'm more brave I think that worked so cool but you should always test it first if it's cold enough we have now minus 25 and I think that's just about right I think if it's warmer I wouldn't dare to do it