An Early Out

Yesterday we had an early out from school because the weather was getting bad.  I am super glad we did!  Yesterday was the last day of the semester, so we weren't doing much in school - especially in my last two hours of the day, which were the classes I got to miss.



I came home and really didn't have anything to do.  I didn't have any homework.  I need to apply for some scholarship so I attempted to do that.  But, I wasn't very successful at that.

My Mom had been sewing a curtain to go around a desk/counter in our basement.  Since the sewing machine was out my Mom suggested that I make an apron.  I have been wanting to try making an apron.  I used painter's drop cloth.  Yes.  I did.  It sounds weird, but it works!  My mom has used it for making many things, like curtains.

I quickly looked at an apron that we have, and that is all that I used to follow.  I think that the apron turned out pretty good for not really knowing what I was doing.

I embroidered an "M" on it.  Otherwise it would be pretty plain.  My Mom thought I should do a more natural color since the "fabric" I used is such a natural color.

This evening I got my first use out of it.  My brother wanted to have homemade pizza for supper and that can be pretty messy.  We used our pizza stone.  It was our fist time using it for pizza.  I tried it before, but since we don't have a pizza peel, I wasn't able to get my finished pizza in the oven.


I have to admit that Thomas came up with a good way to get the pizza, on the pizza stone, into the oven.  I think he maybe a did a little research on pizza making.

When using a pizza stone you have to heat the stone up in the oven.  So, without a pizza peel, Thomas got the pizza into the oven.  While the oven was heating up, he let the stone heat up too.  Meanwhile, he rolled out his dough.  When he was ready to top the pizza, he opened the oven, pulled the rack out, took the pizza stone out of the oven, set it on a cooling rack, and sprinkled the stone with corn meal (important!).  Oh, and don't forget to close the oven!  He put the pizza on the stone and topped it (careful, it is HOT!).  Then, to put the pizza in the oven, he pulled the rack out again, put the the stone, with the pizza, into the oven, pushed the rack in, and let the pizza bake.