Is fresh the best?

I found my Edelwiess broche yesterday. 

I took a picture of it, as I wanted to share it with you.

Is fresh the best?

For many years we have tried to eat fish once a week. It has nearly always been without a grand culinary experience, frozen fish or fish cakes.

A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to buy some freshly caught trout. I mean - really fresh, as cought the same day. How could I pass the opportunity? Maybe it was a guilty conciense - we had not has fish for a few weeks.

What flavor experience. What culinary experience. Is freshly caught better than frozen ? Oh yes!

I am grateful to a boy and his father who spent time together fishing.

Now we eat fish about 3 times a week! But what to do with the leftovers? I'm still trying to figure that out. To day I made a trout salat from the leftovers from yesterday. It was delicious . 

All I used was cream fraishe , chives , onion , apple , salt, pepper , mayonnaise and trout .

A little green dragon.

Hi
It's weekend, and to night we're babysitting our grandson Mads. We're looking forward to it, he's always so fun to be around.
To day will be spent cleaning, baking and shoe shopping. So there's not much time to make cards, but I did make a dragon card. The dragon is a freebie at Beccys place. Go see her blog -both the one with all the freebies and her store. She makes a lot of great digi stamps.

It is a tri-fold-card, here it's closed.

Here the card's opened.

Edelwiess

Hallo!

I didn't do much yesterday, that is, beside laying down.

I had the injection in my knee - boy did it hurt. A jr. doctor (in training), tried to inject the medicine... it did not work out so well. The "boss" then showed her how to do it, she tried again - and it worked. Oh, yes, I did give permission, so she could try. They all have to learn, right?  A small injection - big difference!

So since I didn't make any card yesterday, I'll show you one of my favorite flowers.

The Edelwiess

When I was 9 years old, I sang Edelweiss. I have always loved that music and lyric.

Not many know this, but my husbond to be, gave me a broche, an Edelwiess, the day we had been engaged for 2 weeks. I love that broche.

There's some reasons why I like Edelweiss: It is small and yet it can stirr a lot of feelings in people.

When dry it's not even pretty, at least I don't think so. But, I keep being drawn to it. There's just something about it...

Are we also like Edelwiess? Some of us might feel small and unimportant. 

Though, like Edelwiess, we can still touch others, and bless their lives, by just being there, be an ear that listen, a helping hand - a friend.

If we do our best (and only we know what our best is ) , we find that those we are trying to help , will feel our sensireness & interest - our out streach hand , a hand of friendship!

Hope, Peace & Joy!

Hi, I hope this day will find you full of hope, peace and joy.

Why hope, peace and joy? I guess, I project my own feelings towards you this day...

Hope - I hope the struggels we have, will work out for the best.
Hope - I hope I'll learn what I need to learn, as each day passes by, so I can become a better person.

Peace - in the knowledge that love will triump everything.
Peace - in heart, mind and soul, by knowing that all of us have a purpose in life.

Joy - I feel joy when I see my family grow, learn and become wonderful adults.
Joy - I rejoice in the fact that I have been married to my soulmate for nearly 31 years. That whenever I look at him, I know I can trust him and that I feel safe and loved.

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Now, to something else: The weather is still teasing us... sun, rain and snow... 
What kind of card shall I make? Spring cards? Winter cards?
I could not deside, so I made both...

 

A little different Christmas card - not sure I like it though.

The wreath is make fra Stampin' Up caled: Wonderful wreath. I love that stamp set. I had to wait nearly one year before I got it. Then last year, my family gave it to my as my Christmas pressent.

Opposition in all things ...

It is common sense that there may be opposition in life - otherwise we would not learn anything.
I can not say that I have always appreciated being able to choose. From when I was quite young, I understood that I had the right to choose - my grandmother taught me. "When you get older, choose wisely what is best for you!". 
But what is best for me? You see, do I always appreciate my right to choose? If I do not choose - will others choose for me?
Why do I have thoughts about the right to choose just today?
Well, I've had a lot of pain today and felt really sorry for myself. Not a smart choice! Then I got a call from my daughter, who joyfully told me,that our grandson had said his first 2 words: Dygtig & ja (Clever and yes)
Suddenly, the world is beautiful again. I'm still in pain, but can see a purpose with life. What happened? I used my right to choose - to choose life!
Life must be lived for better or worse! Thank you for the right to choose!

Another card for operation write home

True friends - or weed!

Just some thoughts...

Beautiful flowers grow side by side with the weeds .If the weeds are not removed when there is not much of it , it will take over the garden, and you have to put a lot of work into removeing it - to have a garden , you will be happy with .

I have wondered if in life, friends can be the same.Some friends will lift you up! They are there for you when you need them - even friends you have not seen in a while.
Other friends - if they should be called friends at all - will put you down when ever they can. Ought they be in our life - or garden - at all ? Should we pull them up as with the weed, and go on without them in our lives?

I think true friends will lift you up and help you grow. In a polite way, even tell you when you walk on the wrong path of life. They will help you flourish, so you and people around them will be blessed by having up them in your live.

These cards are for operationskrivhjem.dk

 The stamps are from Stampin' Up.
The map's from google.

Also for operationskrivhjem.dk

The card says: Congratulations with this day.

Be joyful

It's April 24th. It is a special day to me. Not just because I'll be making a Christmas cards to Operation skriv hjem, as many others do every month on the 24th, no it's because it would have been my late sisters birthday.

My late sisters name was Ingelise. She was born on April 24th, 1961. She died March 1983.

She did not have an easy life. She was born with a hole in her heart. She had a big open heart surgery in 1970, as # 8 in Denmark to have that kind of operation. She kind of recovered, and it was not heart problems that took her in such a young age as 22, no, it was brain cancer. 

It was a difficult time for all of us. 

Six weeks later my grandmother died from cancer in her stomach. For years her life was devoted to my sister and I. She had always said: I just have to live long enough, to see how it goes with Lise (that's what we called my sister). 

Grandmother Kamilla went home from my sisters funeral, went to bed - and did not get up again. 

Oh, how our grandmother loved us all. She's my hero. I love her dearly.

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So, it's spring - and I love spring. What is up with the weather? It's snowing!!!