Orange cake!

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I am posting now  how I baked the cake I served to the elderly yesterday when we were there to share God's love and inspiring words. They really loved it. It was soft, not too sweet and  with an orange taste. Well, I used both the juice and the the orange peel in my pastry.

Melt 300 grams butter, add 5 dl milk until lukewarm

Put 3 eggs and 75 grams sugar  into a baking bowl

Mix one sacket of powdered yeast to 1,000 grams flour

added melted butter with milk into the egg and sugar

Then add the dry ingredients

Knead the pastry until smooth adding flour if it is necessary

After one hour in a warm place, the dough is ready to work with

I flattened the dough with a rolling pin 

Put filling on it which consists of: orange peel from 3 oranges, 200 grams butter, 150 grams granulated sugar, 1 tsp vanilla sugar and 4 tbsp orange juice

Roll

Cut rolled dough into pieces, put into a baking pan and let it rise up for about half an hour. Then brush the pastry with beaten egg 

Baked in 200 degrees ca. 30 minutes

And before serving I made an icing from the juice of one orange and granulated sugar and put on top  of my pastry. 

And the other ladies brought with them these delicacies too for the elderly.

And  we all said...nam, nam

I will start writing something to thank God in my post and this is for today!

1. Thanks God for providing us something to bless others.

2. For letting me see the sunshine today.

3. For the energy to cut the grass because it is not one of my favorite task.

4. And for all those that take time to read my post.

JOY

The bright sides of life!

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In the last few days, there has been ongoing protester where I live. Farmers who were not satisfied with what the government offered  them. So one way of showing  protest was to paint balls of grass with sour faces as you can see in the picture under.

And they are all over the place. It does not make one happy, in the first place.

And then the high school students who had been lacking English teachers lately went to the media so that they will be heard, but it  made things more complicated.

The high school building  where I live.

I am not writing this to defend their cause because I can't speak for them since I am not on their shoes. But these situations are influencing  my daily walk of life. One can easily forget how to be grateful and just think of the unrighteousness in the community.

And not only that, I hear problems everywhere both from the nearest and people I know. So, I  have to do something about it or else my life will be contaminated by all the negative things that happens around me or in my life.

                            So today, when I woke up, I decided to see the bright sides of life.

                                          Thanking God  for this peaceful morning!

             For God's words that inspire me today not to give up and just continue believing!

For the spring flowers that are blooming in my garden!

This green plants was from my husband's grandfather who passed away some years ago. So , although it does not bloom, we take care of it. It makes us remember his kindness.

I am also grateful for the flower of the wild grass. It is beautiful too.

Im am also grateful for the inspiration to bake cake today. I am going to serve this cake to the elderly tomorrow, when we are going to share God's words and love for them.

Maybe I am going to share how I baked  it in another post:)

The best part: Tasting before serving:)

Thank God also for the inspiration to make these cards today. Hope they can brightens someone's birthday.

Cards for children!

For those who likes flowers!

And for a teen- ager!

I could write more things that I am grateful for today...but then my post will be too long that maybe you fall asleep while reading. So bye for now and hope that you also had a wonderful day inspite of problems or difficulties you might having. Choose to look at the bright sides of life!

JOY

The ape and the cat!

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I just made this knitted stuffed ape and put it on the window post.

Then my cat took her place!

And who are you?

With that I wish everyone a happy week-end!

Freedom!

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                                         What is freedom to you? To me?To others?

When I woke up this morning, I am thankful that I can sleep in my own bed and not in a jail as some did. And it means that I have freedom.
Today  is Norwegians national day. It is day where the Norwegians celebrate their freedom. As a foreigner, I celebrate with them because I am now a part of this country.

But when I look outside through my window, I saw rainshower coming from heaven. Then I thought, we are going to be wet, we who are going to see the parade and those that are going to be in the parade. But again, we are free to do it or not. That is also freedom for everybody.

17th of May – Norway’s national day

Although 2005 was the centennial of Norway’s full independence, the country’s constitution dates back further. It was, in fact, adopted at Eidsvoll on 17 May 1814. The celebrations commemorating this event centre around the children, with school bands leading processions of children waving flags all over Norway.

Everywhere one can see the colors of red,white and blue symbolizing their flag.

like this flower bouquet

I bought this from a mom and a daughter who sells flowers in the neighborhood to support their group.

                                 The celebration always begin at the church. So I went there first.

This is the church in our place!

Our priest

He talked about  why we celebrate national day. He said that when their forefathers started,  it always begins at the church and do the parade and go back to the church again. But now, it only begins at the church but afterwards, there will be no more church service. The people are free to go whereever they wanted to go after the parade.

For me it is freedom too that we take for granted. In other countries, one can be beaten to death by just going to church.

 The music team " Kornett" played the music during the service. Freedom to choose to do a good deed that day!

I met my sister and brother-in- law after the service. I took a picture of them together with the mayor of our place.

Me and my sister inside her mother-in-law's apartment while waiting for the parade to pass by:)

And now first of the parade. " The russ" wearing red,white and blue attire. This is the last day they are going to use this attire after 17 days.  To the right is my youngest daughter:)

And the rest of the gang! The blå ( blue) russ were with them. They are graduating too.

The mayor of our place leading the parade. As you can see, most off them wears raincoats coz it is raining . 

One of the highlights of the parade. Majorettes!

The kindergarten with their parents!

I saw a friend!

National dresses!

The small ones in the elementary school!

Different kinds of national dresses, especially worn in national day.

Some dared to wear short dresses in this cold and rainy weather. Freedom to choose!

Then the grown ups parade!

And my favorite of all! They are so cute:) 

After the parade... dinner with my sister, brother in law and his mother!

Most of the people eats at the restaurant this day, but me, I was lucky to be invited by my sister and brother-in-law to have dinner with them . 

My youngest daughter was with her friends. It is her choice. Freedom

Here in Norway, freedom is a natural word. Everybody has the freedom to choose their own religion or not to believe at all. The children has freedom of speech and right to choose life that they wanted to live. Freedom that many takes for granted. 

But who will decide when enough is enough. Freedom can be misused. Like children whom they had given freedom of speech. They don't know the word respect anymore. Cursing is just a natural word for the youths. Freedom to have sex whom ever they want to has gone too far. If they want to, they can just have sex with friends or someone they just met and didn't even know the name.  Freedom to abort a baby if it does not suit the mother. Freedom to vote or  not. They forgot that before, they fight just to be given the right to vote. And the list is endless. And it seems that the more you do wrong things, the more you get respected. But of course, not every body is misusing their freedom. One thing is for sure, without God we are all lost although we have freedom or not.

1 Corinthians 6:12 Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

                                      The secret:

You my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to endulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.  Galatians 5:13

So let us enjoy our freedom...freedom to do good things:)

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