It Is Easter Time Again!

A few days ago when I was at work, I was surprised when a client told me that she can´t come next week because it will be a Good Friday. I said, "what? a holiday again?" Lol! Sometimes I have no idea what´s going on. Since I have no longer a child who goes to school, I forgot the holidays except when it is Christmas. How can I forget when I could hear  Christmas songs everywhere? There are no Easter songs, aren´t there? I could be reminded a few weeks before Easter if there are. Here is how the Germans celebrate the Easter season.

View of the railway station of Wesel, Germany

Next Friday is indeed a Good Friday. I can imagine that our neighboring town Dinxperlo in The Netherlands, will be full of Germans again, shopping and eating the popular Dutch street food at the open marketplace. The Netherlands has no Good Friday holiday. The Dutch people still go to work on that day while the Germans have their Easter holidays until Easter Monday. Well, Saturday after the Good Friday is still a working day and the shops are open. The supermarkets will be full as the people are having their last shopping for the Easter celebrations. There will be a lot of people whose shopping carts are full to the brim with food and drinks as if there will be no more tomorrow for shopping. Well, it´s time for family bonding again. 

No Bake Peanut Butter Easter Eggs

Are you ready for your Easter hunting? Do you know already what you are going to prepare for your Easter brunch or dinner? If you are undecided yet what to cook for the celebration, I could help you out by sending you to the links of some of my delicious recipes for your Easter party. 

Lettuce salad with oranges and cashew nuts

Here are some of my favorites:

• Fruit Salad
• Lettuce Salad with Oranges and Cashew Nuts
• Baked Mince Meat with Bell Peppers
• Spring Rolls
• Frozen Cherry Cream Dessert

If you want more recipes, just check to my cooking blog and my main writing site Hubpages. Thanks for reading.

                  Happy Easter Everyone!

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5 Goals for 2018 to Achieve

Happy New Year everyone!

I know, I am a bit late for greeting you. Christmas and New Year were a busy time for me. You know how it was. Besides having a mini job as a wellness massage therapist, I was getting slow as a snail in doing what I did for that time of the year. 2017 was so fast I should say. Many things happened but I am thankful to God for all the blessings that I have received.

Do you have a new years resolution? As we have a new year, many friends of mine are making their resolutions. I hope they will be successful in achieving them. I don´t do any new years resolution. However, I do set goals every year and try to fulfill them. Have you listed your goals this year 2018?

5 Goals for 2018 to Achieve

1. Keep my mouth shut whenever negative thoughts come to my mind. I should try not to give a negative opinion to whoever asks me. 

This would be very hard as I would be lying. I don´t like to lie as well as I don´t like liars. What about if someone says, "how do I look? I have painted my eyebrows." What should I say? If that girl looks like a monkey with that new fashion looking painted eyebrows? Shall I tell the truth?

I think, in this case, I will be back to my teenage self and tell the girl that she looks good although I find it awful. Maybe I should say, you look more beautiful the way you look before.

2. Working hard for the money and travel for months. No suffering, no reward but hey, who suffers here? I love my mini job and I enjoy it. This is the longest job I have in life. It would be great having months of vacation in a tropical country of my choice. Digging the soil in my tropical garden will be enough reward for the hard earn Dinero. Well, besides other things I have missed.

3. Writing, writing and writing. Maybe to cash out much more from writing. Having this goal, I have to discipline myself and make a schedule. This is one of the hardest things I have to do as I am sometimes lazy and just want to relax in our electric massage chair while reading. Talking about writing, Valentines Day is fast approaching and I have to write a blog about love. I wonder what title I will have. Do you have any idea?

My writing place.

4. Enjoy life as it is. Avoid worrying about anything that might happen which is not of my choice and which I can not control. Be happy. Nobody does that for me. Sometimes, being selfish is good.

5. Stay healthy as much as possible. It is not nice to get sick without a caring mother on my side. Love and care your mother. You will never find another like her.

Marinated Chicken Salad recipe 

I have set a lot of goals this year but I don´t write all of them as they might go down the drain again like last year and the other years that past.

Anyway, how´s life in your neck of the woods? Did you set a goal for yourself?

Thank you very much for stopping by. Please feel free to comment, like and share this blog to your social media sites. Take care and God bless you all.

BTW, this is my first blog this year 2018.

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