52 New Things – Week 10

What’s new? What’s new?

Jamie –

I made a DELICIOUS dinner with less than 5 minutes prep time and 20 minutes bake time.  My kids raved about it, I actually ate it and the husband did too – although that’s not saying much, he’s like Mikey.

Anyway, without further adieu, my:

“5 minute Pesto Pizza”

Ingredients:

Baby spinach
Pesto sauce
roasted chicken
pre-made pizza crust
mozzerrella or other cheese
(feel free to throw any other old thing you’ve got on it – I went with what was in the fridgy!)

Cover the pizza crust in pesto, add the chicken and spinach, coat with lots and lots (that’s a technical term) of your desired cheese and back for about 20 minutes or until bubbly and gooey.  Yum!

Angie –

This week again was something I wasn’t really planning or wanting to do, but I did. In the midst of planning our Elmo birthday party our cupcake lady extraordinaire came down with that pesky stomach flu that has been going around and was unable to do our cupcakes. So, me losing track of time didn’t get around to ordering from anywhere else and I decided to make them myself. So what right? Cupcakes. Hmmph! Well, I’m not a cook.. I’m not a baker, not a cupcake maker… I’ve made cupcakes before, and I’ve thrown birthday parties before, but I’ve never made cupcakes for a birthday party. So I pulled myself up by the egg beaters and bought a couple of boxes of mix, I bought every single Elmo candy topper I could find and viola’ I made cupcakes for a birthday party. It’s been 3 days and there have been no reports of food poisoning.

Trish –

My new thing this week was “Simplicity Parenting.”  It’s a book I’m reading that has ideas about making your childrens’ environment more simple and therefore leading to an easier learning environment.  There are several steps, and my next few weeks may be each one of those!  The first step is to rid your house of clutter, specifically toy clutter.  It says to throw away all broken toys or toys with missing pieces, then save about 10 of the basics that get played with a lot.  Things like wooden blocks, dolls, trucks, and any toy that encourages imaginative play.  I have started that process, and I confess- we have too many toys.

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