Works for Me Wednesday!

Every November, we like to do a Thankful Tree in our house, writing out our blessings daily and thanking God for them.  (Link to last year's tree and painting our leaves)

Last year, we took the time and painted leaves.  It was a messy process and something I didn't want to do every year.  I liked our leaves and wanted to preserve them, so I took them into a local education store and had them laminated - I went on Tuesday, the day lamination is 20% off!

It took a while to cut them all out, but now we have them to use every year.  You can write on them with a dry erase marker (which can smudge off easily) or a Sharpie pen.  We used a Sharpie pen.  Last year, when we took our tree down, I resisted the urge to clean off the leaves and I'm so glad I did.

As we pulled out our leaves to start this year's tree, we took the time to read over what we had been thankful for last year.  One of my favorites: "New teeth!"

While you make think Sharpie is impossible to remove, all you need is nail polish remover and some cotton balls.  It breaks down the ink and wipes away.

Here's this year's Thankful Tree!  We recreate the tree every year, just drawing it on brown mail packaging paper from the grocery store.  And that works for us!

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Itza Pizza

Works for me Wednesday's is hosting a summer recipe edition.

We tried something new last night for supper and it was very yummy. However, had my time management skills been a little better we would have eaten at our normal time of 5:30 instead of almost 7, but it's all good. If there is one thing my hubby can get most frustrated with me (ok, I'll be honest, there is more than just one thing, but I'm trying to take it easy on myself), it's my lack of time management. I'd just like to blame it farkle! ;-D

So, where was I?

Yes, new recipe. I combined 3 different recipes for this one. I used my new favorite pizza dough from Emeril and a new pizza sauce recipe I just googled and tried. Then, to make it even more fun, we tossed the pizza onto the grill.

Backtracking...how did it take 1 1/2 hours to get pizza on the table, you ask? Without mentioning any names, someone forgot to read the directions ahead of time and failed to notice the 1 hour time for the dough to rise.

The finished product:

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