Best of RAR: Your New Favorite Tradition - Jolabokaflod

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Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re airing one of my favorite episodes from last year, all about Jolabokaflod, which is a Christmas “book flood,” in the Icelandic tradition.

What if I told you this tradition makes your life easier, not harder?

During Jolabokaflod, you gift members of your family with new books, and everyone drinks hot cocoa and spends the whole of Christmas Eve reading. If I didn’t get your attention before, I’ve got it now.

There is so much that happens this time of year that adds to our to-do list, that puts more on our plates, but Jolabokaflod is truly a joy. It is a moment of rest and refreshment for you too.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

Where the tradition came from
3 super-simple steps to your own Jolabokaflod
How other mamas just like you have made the tradition their own

I hope you bring this tradition to your family and that you have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.

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Find the rest of the show notes at: readaloudrevival.com/how-to-jolabokaflod

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Sarah McKenzie here and you've got the Read A Loud Revival podcast, the show that helps
0:06.4	your kids fall in love with books, that helps you fall in love with homeschooling, and hopefully
0:11.1	it's helping you currently fall in love with Christmas schooling.
0:14.0	I hope you're Christmas schooling with us.
0:16.5	In today's show I want to replay a show that we aired for the first time last year,
0:21.8	all about Yala Boca Flud, which is a Christmas book
0:25.2	flood in the Icelandic tradition. One thing I love about this tradition is that it makes your life
0:30.0	easier, not harder. There is so much that happens this time a year that adds more to our
0:35.4	to-do list that puts more on our plate. This is truly a joy. It is a moment of rest and
0:40.6	refreshment for you too. So without further ado I want to play for you this
0:46.2	Best Of episode from the Read-Aloud Revival. I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful Christmas.
0:53.0	What if I told you there is an Icelandic Christmas tradition that means you would get to spend an entire day or an entire evening reading books and sipping hot cocoa. And that's what you're
1:16.6	supposed to be doing. Oh friends, do I have a treat for you? This is the Read Aloud Revival, the show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.
1:28.0	I'm Sarah Mackenzie, and in this episode we're talking about how to Yala Boca Flaud.
1:34.9	You do not want to miss this. Okay, first things first how on earth do we actually pronounce this word? So there
1:59.8	are a lot of very opinionated people online adamant that the word is pronounced one way or another, but Yala Boca Flaud seems to be the consensus, so I'm going to use that here.
2:12.0	If you happen to speak Icelandic fluently,
2:15.0	would you write in and tell me
2:17.0	if I'm pronouncing it correctly or not?
2:18.9	Because I would love that.
2:20.1	For here and now on this episode,
2:21.5	I'm gonna say, yala Boca Flad. What is it and why on earth are we talking about it here
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