A little Christmas thought...

Good Evening dear hearts..

I am trying to make up for my absence by posting again tonight.. smile..

Just sharing a few things we have been busy doing..

We had a Keepers of the Home meeting the night before my computer crashed..

I had done a whole post and with one wee swipe deleted it all and as it was quite late I thought I would do it the next day but alas it was not to be..

The dear girl smiling at you in the picture made the lovely cake above..

She was so kind as to give us her recipe..

Caramel Cream Cake..

For cream

-8 eggs

-200 grams sugar

-1 liter Milk

-150 grams sugar for caramel

Put the sugar in a pan on the stove ,medium high.

Melt the sugar ,take out and turn around until the sugar is all over. 

Set aside.

In a separate bowl, beat together the eggs and sugar, add cold milk and vanilla extract.

Pour this mixture in to the sugared pan.

For the cake layer 

-6 eggs

-6 table spoon sugar

-6 tablespoon flour

-6 tablespoon water

-1 teaspoon of baking powder

Beat the egg white and add the sugar, the water continuing to beat.

Separately beat the yolks with baking powder and add to white eggs mixture ,but mix slowly .

Add flour mixing slow.

Pour this mixture on the top of the milk from the pan.

Bake for 50 minute in a preheated oven to 350 grade F.

Check to see if it is done.

The surface have to be brown and if you shake the pan ,it has to be firm.

If it seems like a jelly, cover and let it another 10 minute.

Take out from the oven and cold .

When is completely cold, put a plate on the pan, turn it upside down. 

The liquid from melted sugar should go around the cake and be absorbed by cake.

Cover with wiped cream. Decorate up to your imagination. 

Can be used with any kind of flavors  vanilla, rum, almond, etc

My dear hubby chopped me down a birch tree and gathered a bunch of greenery to decorate the house with..

I want him to cut the smallest tree into 15 slices about an inch thick and I will print the letters for Merry Christmas on them and string them up on the fireplace..

I hope so anyway..

Do you ladies use fresh greenery? 

It probably won't be put around until the weekend..

We made a quick trip to St. Martins to check on the cottage and made sure everything was snug and safe for the coming storms..

The weather was exactly how I love it..

Not too cold but windy with high waves..

I could have stayed there all day but we needed to get back home..

There was a lot to do.. smile..

I thought I would mention something to you all..

We have found that once our children left home Christmas just was not the same..

The longer they were married and their children came along the amount of time they managed to get home for the holiday changed too..

At first they come home a lot for Christmas but then they needed to have their own Christmas traditions so they came home less..

Now, they only come home for one night and a day at the most..

It is so precious to me when they are all here under one roof..

You know how I feel as I expect you all feel the same..

We understand all this because of course we had done the same thing.. eh?

Made our own Christmas dinners, had our own little customs and traditions as they grew up..

It was the natural thing to do.. smile..  

Anyway, the last few years I kind of turned into a Grinch, kind of..

Grin..

I just didn't see the point of doing the work for such a short time. 

I would do it but would not enjoy it very much..

I had lost my Christmas joy..

Anyway...

This year our pastor taught a simple little lesson on Christmas and one thing he said made quite an impression on me..

He noted that there is so much less in this world that celebrates our Lord Jesus..

The world is steadily changing and leaving Him out of the picture of our lives..  He mentioned that when there is a chance to celebrate Christ then we should do our best..

Actually, strive to find the joy and celebrate Him with our family and friends every chance we get ..

Basically...

to put Christ back into Christmas and old fashioned joy..

It does not need to be all about presents and such but the joy of sharing love and laughter with our family and friends.. Just of being together..

Isn't that a wonderful way to look at it..

Sooooo....

I am decorating and planning and finding joy in my days..

Spending time with friends and looking forward to the day we will spend with our family...

Just enjoying doing little things like making Christmas crafts and gifts and making lists of Christmas dinner recipes ideas and such..

Do you find joy in Christmas preps? 

Hopefully, tomorrow I will get a chance to take a pic of my new curtain that my friend found on Pinterst and we both made one..

So cute..

Today was spent away from home again but hopefully I can spend the day home tomorrow and get some work done... smile..

Well, my friends I hope you enjoyed this post and I look forward to hearing from you..

So glad some of you missed me.. smile..

Merry Christmas, sweet ladies..

He is the reason for the season.. xoxo