Graduation / Good-bye Amsterdam Night

Today, I show these pictures with great pride! Thank you Sarah for providing them for me!

We baked those cakes together, don't they look gorgeous!! and believe me they were delicious!
Sarah, the gorgeous girl in the picture, learned the skills of chocolate, she made that astonishing chocolate mousse you see on the back! My dear Sarah, you learned so fast and with so an enthusiasm that makes me believe I am a great teacher! thank you, I love you.
The rest of the cakes are a German Clementine Cheese Cake, my luxurious Lemon Pie and the mouth watering Nutella Torte, a recipe from my dear friend Emma. Emma, I am passing a legacy on ...

After long 6 months of growing as a team and coming to know each other, learning few little things here and there ... I was ready to "graduate" my girls from "the small teachings" of life, hehehe well at least I thought, little idea did I have that we were just about to start our real journey as students ....



Here I am, that was during my second pregnancy, I enjoyed to be pregnant, it gave me a wonderful excuse to indulge myself in such goodies!

But we didn't only eat and bake, we also learned other little things, like creating face mask from scratch. We had fun hiding in a room to mix up a bunch of creams and vitamins we could gather around from the things we already had in our kitchens ... sorry, no pictures!

One of the things that I learned during this time was that not everybody is ready to learn. I was confronted often with the question, am I wasting my time in people that anyways want to do things their own ways??. First impressions can be wrong, I have to say that I experienced the saying "the first ones will be the last, and the last ones will be the first" to be very true. How wonderful it is to invest myself in someone with a teachable attitude! There can be thousands of extra miles to walk through but they can be walked with great joy if the companion is a humble heart
At this evening we were the cooks, the bakers, the one who did the shopping, decorated and set the whole thing up, worked the menu through, talked and entertained the guests and cleaned up! It was graduation night, we worked as a team and we had a wonderful time! It was all part of learning and growing ... oh I forgot to mention we had a meal for around 100 people ... hehehe

And after all, when we were done, we enjoyed another piece of cake!
In this last picture, you can see my husband, my dear friend Corina and our Freiburger friend Katrin.
Thank you guys! you all did a wonderful job.