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First Day of Preschool!

Well, a very excited little girl went off to preschool this morning.  Wearing her new sparkly pink shoes and a nervous grin.  Now Piper and I have to figure out what to do with ourselves two mornings a week.

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the best homemade pizza! (i've ever made)

I've been making homemade pizza for awhile and have been using a pizza crust recipe I think I found on Money Saving Mom.  It was good.  It's whole wheat.  It came out thicker and chewier than we prefer, but it mixed in the bread machine, which was nice.  Then, I got this idea to use the artisan bread in five minutes a day dough (I make this sometimes, I blogged about it here - so go there if you want to read how I do it, and you can see the recipe and read about the details here, or buy the book) as pizza crust and oh.my.goodness.  It's better than good.  Thin and crispy like we like!  And SUPER EASY.

The artisan bread in five minutes a day dough is so easy - water, flour, yeast stirred up and thrown in the fridge - it's kind of ridiculous.  If you like bread, you should try it.  And I have to say now that I am sure I can use the dough for pizza, I'll be making it more.

Here's the dough rolled out on the pizza stone.  I liberally sprinkled the stone with cornmeal before slapping the dough on there and using my (floured) hands to shape it.  The big circle is for Matt and I and the small loafish piece is for Cadence. Because she's picky.

Cadence's is topped with ricotta and a shredded cheese blend.  The grown-up one has ricotta, sliced tomatoes (from the garden), fresh basil, pepperoni, and a shredded cheese blend.

I baked it at 450 for about 20 minutes.  Which may have been a bit long, looking at the cheese, but it was still super yummy.

Nom. Nom. Nom.  The leftover pizza has been in high demand.  

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Mama & Me Decorating: Tissue Paper Decoupaged Stool

We have this little white stool that has seen better days.  When Cadence was around 16 months maybe she started flipping it over and scooting it along our tile floors, so the top was pretty roughed up.  Since then, I wanted to decoupage it and when we started our sun themed activities last week, it was the perfect opportunity to snazz it up.

This was a zero cost decorating project too!  Our only supplies were tissue paper out of our gift wrapping supplies and some decoupage medium we had (you can make your own decoupage stuff with white glue and a little water too).  We decided to decorate the stool with a sky background, and clouds, and of course, the sun. We got started by tearing up the tissue paper. 

Cadence brushed on the decoupage medium and stuck on the tissue paper. 

I would say that this was a much more mama-directed art activity than we usually do, even though Cadence still did most of it.  I especially encouraged her not to make the clouds too big and I tore most of the pieces for the sun, then let her decide where to put them.

Once we finished, you can still see some of the stool, particularly the rough edges, through the paper, but I'm okay with that.  I coated it with polyurethane, which we had on hand.

 

 

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Today's Harvest

"When I get bigger, I'm going to eat giant tomatoes." ~Cadence

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first day: august

 

Theme of the Week: Sun

Reading: Hello, Sun! : A Morningtime Tale of God's Great Care by Walsh, The Sun is My Favorite Star by Asch, and Sun Up, Sun Down by Gibbons

Music: Have a "Mr. Golden Sun" parade!  Outside, in the sun, of course.

Letter Awareness: S is for Sun

Art: A paper plate sunshine inspired by this one here, and a fun decorating project where we will make-over her little white stool with some sun artwork.  There's another post about that coming soon- here's a preview pic!

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