Category: June

Summer decoration made by upcycling oilcloths pieces.

Oilcloth pieces.
Pattern template.
Finished sewed pennants.
Decorations butterflies.
They are up 😊.

Because it’s today 1st of June = the first summer month. 😊

My new home, outside, looks like I want it. A mirror of my creativity 🤩. With flowers and pennants. Happy colours.

Looking for a bikini – found 2 top’s to sew & celebrating my driving licence with a friend.

I was looking for a new bikini but didn’t find any good colour or size but I did found 2 top’s on sale 🤩. In perfect colour! And what did I think? Well, I can use those 2 top’s to sew my bikini 🤩🤩.

After this bargain on sale, I met a friend and celebrated with a dessert (read about it in the post’s Driving Licence part 1 – 7) down in the city. 

My dessert
My friend’s dessert.

And after that I bought a whole watermelon 🤩🤩, got home sewed a bit and while doing that a friend from my house church came by with a flower as a congratulations greeting

The pot did I paint the 26th.

Driving license  – part 7 – did it 🤩🤩🤩🙏.

24th of June. It didn’t start good 😔 oh no it started with migraine with aurora 05:50 am. Took my medicine and ate breakfast. Texted my driving school teacher, to inform him. Did all I could to get it away. My goal was to do the very last mandatory driving test without migraine.

Catched the planned bus. Got to the driving school before meeting up time (06:58 am) as was 07:10 am.

Went through the car and all that I need to on what is what and where I found it.

Driving off to the traficstastion (where it all starts), drove some nessesary streets incase of if that’s where I would be driving with the sensor from the traficstastion.

I have to say, I have never before, been driving with my migraine medication. So this was wierd and I wouldn’t done it if it wasn’t because of today’s task!

The driving test itself is an hour long,and in three (3) parts.

When we got back an hour later, this very nice sensor, told me I had past. A bit of a chock! But a good chock! I have worked so hard for this in the end! 

Temporary driving licence.

I did it!

😍😍😍🙏

Midsummer home in🇸🇪 Sweden is a big weekend, here in Norway🇳🇴 they make a bonfire.

And what do I do? For the past years haven’t I done a thing  😔. I think I have been on one maybe two St.Hans bonfire during my soon 17 years in Norway. I totally miss my Swedish🇸🇪 traditions! Not all of it but a lot.  And this midsummer I am nauseous 😔 been eating and drinking blueberry 🫐 which is the only thing that helps.

I went grocery shopping (just got home) and thought “why not at least buy some strawberry 🍓 as some kind of feeling of which day it is. 

But it isn’t the same!

To be sick on such a big day and single isn’t fun! But at least I know it comes more 😉 and hopefully with a driving license 😊 in the future.

The Swedish 🇸🇪 traditions is herring, potatoes, family, schnapps (for those who like it), pick 7 different flowers, Midsummer dance with folk-dress, folk music, barbecue, bring in hay (for those who live further north, and Christian festivals.

The Norwegian 🇳🇴 traditions haven’t I got into yet. And I would say it’s a mix of that I don’t have a driving license and no Norwegian man or any Norwegian family whom has adopted me in to their family and traditions.

My midsummer 2024 is a sad mix of frozen pizza and blueberry and maybe strawberry…

Continueing…I got a new job.

Faith that holds us.

(Got home approxy 11.30, sat in the couch and they called me back 11.59am(!))

And the school had allready called my references and wanted me. I said yes, mostly cause I had no other work and cause I felt the Lord had open this door for me. This job is on a new level of age for me and activities both before and after school. A system they have here in Norway. I know about it but never worked with it, so it’s totally new for me. I feel like the Lord is challenging me to do something totally new! In the same time as I am curious about the tasks as I am exited about how I can teach younger students to be creative. I am quite tired on teenagers right now so a younger level in school might fit my brain for a year. This job is from 1st grade to 6th grade (age 6 to 12) literally nothing I have worked with before, maybe this is just what I need, maybe this is the age I should work with. I don’t have a clue so I guess we’ll just see how it will go. ^^haha^^.

But than, it comes to an other thing. I (we – me and my cat-boy) need to move again…. nothing I really looking forward to, but is neccesary cause the distance is to far to do everyday without a car! So in my head I want to find a place that is approxy fourtyfive minutes from Stavanger and fourtyfive minutes to work by local transport, which we have a good system on. The question is, should I live in the same county or just on the boarder to my work county?

And this is once again, how the Lord works in my life when he open up for a job cause He knows what I can do and how I can be challenge. It’s a praying answer. It’s a sign of having faith and trusting His ways not mine. And I know that He will open up the right door for the next home too. He knows whats best for me both in distance and what my finacially situation will look like.

Interview day, June 29th-22, Bore.

I had a bad night, didn’t sleep well at all 😔. Have maybe slept 4,5h 🤪🤪. But didn’t have a problem to get up at 06am. 😊 Had enough time to get ready, eat breakfast and catch the bus into town at 07.14 am. It was🌡+14°C when I woke up and it can be +24°C.

It’s Wednesday, June 29th 08:13am. I’m on the train towards the interview. The sun is up. It will be an other warm day… The train takes 30 min going south from Stavanger to Klepp county. And the school I have applyed to is 7 min away from the train station.

Bore school yard.

The interveiw was at 08.40am ish, for approxy 30min. As any other interveiw I’ve been to, I asked the Lord for the right words before I got there and so I said what I got. Walked around the school yard before I went back to the local bus, back to the train and texted my referenses that this school would call them the same day.

I got on the train further back home with a small break at the bushub in Stavanger for some breakfast and energy 😉.

Got home around 11.30am and 11.59am the school called and offered me to work with them 🤪🤪😊. It went crazy fast!!

The nxt day I headed towards Trøndelag county…

The peace I’ve recieved the last few days, June 9th.

I’ve got peace to stay in Stavanger municipality an other year, if that means I’ll stay where I live right now (on the island) or that I’ll move into the city I don’t know yet. What I still don’t know is where I’ll work. The job I have right now ends the 31st of July. Yet I do have peace over the fact I’ll get the job the Lord wants for me.

Does this mean that I’ll keep working with yought? Don’t know. Will I keep working in the School? Hope so, but don’t know.

Which path wil become mine?

Maybe I’ll become a substitute teacher somewhere or maybe I’ll get a job with yought like “after school hours”. Just the fact I’ve got peace helps a lot!! Last year I was so stressed about this thing “where will I get a job” and now I am in the same situation and I will just rest in it and see where the Lord is leading me. I am still applying to jobs of interest but no stress. And I have figured out I shouldn’t work more than 80%. Which also helps.

I am still applying, and won’t stop until I get something. But I feel more openminded about what I can and maybe want to try than I have been feeling for the last months. 😉 And I still have peace over the job I turned down, that it was the right thing to do.

I have been praying over this “Lord where will I work nest?” Because it is a bit frustrating some days to not know. But now, I just know it’s okay to just trust the one who have it all in His plans. So whatever everyone asks me I’ll answer I don’t know but it will be fine.

And my sparetime, well offcourse it would have been nice and easier to have the driving licence but hay, I take that when I have time and money. I will try to explore as much as possible this Summer by train, bus and ferries! I will not aloud myself to just be home and do nothing just because I don’t have a car!!

Life goes on and I’ll enjoy mosts days. 😉