Pizza & a Movie

It's amazing how much our childhood can shape the things we truly love, isn't it?  Because my mom loves Anne of Green Gables, I also love Anne of Green Gables.  Because my dad loves the water, I also love the water.  Because my mom loves to thrift shop and garage sale, I also love to thrift shop and garage sale.   Because my dad loves stove top popcorn, I also love stove top popcorn.  I guess that's a huge reason why I can be incredibly thankful that I was brought up in a loving family!  

Another thing that I grew up with was homemade pizza.  Yes, this is delicious as it sounds!  My mom use to make pizza from scratch, including hand-crafting the dough. whipping together her own sauce as well as chopping all of the ingredients.  After a labor-intensive afternoon for her, my siblings and I were invited into the kitchen to pick what we wanted on our pizzas.   Once our pizzas were assembled and in the oven, we would usually gather in the living room for family movie night.  

When I started working last year I was bound and determined to take this family tradition and create a new version of it with my friends.  That idea quickly fell by the wayside when I faced the reality of how exhausted I was by the end of a work week.  While I don't anticipate being any less tired when I wrap up the school week this time around,  I do have a better game plan in place to keep pizza night more of a possibility then it was last year.  That's right, I have made my very own frozen pizzas!  I called up a friend, shared my idea with her and we spent a long afternoon kneading dough, mixing sauce, chopping ingredients and assembling our very own frozen pizzas.  It was fun and will hopefully encourage me to invite friends over for some Friday fun even when I'm tired.  Who says homemade pizza has to be fresh, anyway?!