Brownies Would Have Been Nice

Please someone remind me to never again make those carrot cake cookies.  Or at least tell me to make a fourth as many as I made today.  I baked 10 cookies sheets  full of cookies and then frosted them before making a sandwich cookie out of them.  It was a labor of love for the open house of a dear young woman who will be leaving on her mission within a couple of weeks.

There are many other spectacular desserts that taste and look just as pretty....without the 6 hours of preparation.  (I am sure that I will forget all the time in preparation at some point in the future and make some for another special occasion.)

We drove to Katarina's open house ....about a half hour away.  It was held in her grandmother's lovely apartment.  The west wall of her living room was windows and we watched the sun go down...a ball of flame sinking below the horizon, leaving silhouettes of trees and homes in stark relief to the brilliant orange of the sky.  There was much talk and laughter, food and fun.  We stayed for a couple of hours before coming home.

Like every other missionary open house we have been to, it could have been a YSA gathering, since so many were there, but there were also parents and bishops and leaders.  It was a great group of people.  We visited with a dentist/bishop who lives a little ways out from Copenhagen.  We have heard so many nice things about him....and from our conversation this evening, we could tell they were all true.

He is entertaining the idea of taking his family to the states for a few years....just to let them experience another culture, and one where they would have plenty of LDS to associate with.  Of course I sang the praises of Arizona.  I think he would do very well there.  He will have to find out if he can practice dentistry there without having to undergo extra education.

He attended 5 years of dental school and has had his own practice for over 12 years, so there is probably nothing he can't do. I can tell that he is a dentist I would gladly visit.  His opinions harmonize with SK's about unnecessary procedures ... so he is conservative.  He says he never tries to "sell" anything to his patients.  He does everything he can to preserve their natural teeth, without trying to make them look like phony piano keys.

That was just one conversation....we enjoyed all of them.  Then it was back though the darkened streets of the outlying cities and into Copenhagen, the lakes and our apartment.

In so many ways it feels like home.