Day 126
25th May 2022
Clean Up
Today started with a clean-up.
Lately they don’t feel like ANY book work so we’re taking a break.
Mila & her friends have had so many fashion shows, her bedroom floor has been littered with clothes for days.
Lincoln’s room isn’t so bad, so I was surprised to see him go at it with gusto vacuuming and cleaning the windows!
The Silkworm
When we finished cleaning, we flopped on the sofa for a rest and I read from our world history book.
Today was all about ancient China.
We learnt how the empress Lei Zu was taking tea in her garden under a Mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her tea.
She noticed the hot water began to unravel the cocoon into a long silvery thread that stretched on and on.
Lei Zu had the thread woven into cloth and made the emperor, the very first, silkworm thread, robe.
After our story we went to YouTube to learn more about silkworms, and we watched this awesome video.
The kids want to raise silkworms. You can buy eggs online for around $25.
Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLghveYDIk
Pizza Oven
After history, we took Pepe for a walk to the shops to get supplies for our pizza dough.
(His lead’s in the other car so we tied him to an old piece of rope. It looks like we just found him on the street and abducted him!)
Lincoln found a gluten free pizza recipe, and we got to work.
It was messy work!
We left the dough to rest, and when we came back, the kids loved seeing how much it had risen.
Next, it was time to head to the hardware store for our bricks & pavers.
Yesterday, we started with some small pavers that we already had, but today, we realised the width wouldn’t work; we needed the narrow bricks.
There was a young guy at the hardware store, maybe 18 or 19yrs, who loaded the bricks into the car and the kids decided to be helpful & passed him the bricks in a chain, one by one! 😂
They really slowed him down, but they were excited to help, and he was so polite and patient with them.
We got home and started building.
We went to put the paver on top, and realised our paver was a little smaller than the one from the YouTube video.
Ours was 19 inches and there’s was 24 inches! Oops.
We altered our build and kept going.
Behold!
The pizza oven!! 😋
They were so proud!
“This is the best day.” Linc said. 😉
We couldn’t find our laser thermometer and so we just waited until the fire was really going then we threw a pizza in.
It was SO GOOD!
It probably took around 20 minutes.
The base was crunchy, but the dough was soft and fresh.
Not doughy though, it was just right, and it had the right amount of smokiness.
Delish!
The kids negotiated Nutella and marshmallows to make a sweet pizza.
This was the first time they’d had Nutella!!
They were in chocolate heaven!
Lincoln wrapped his up like a cinnamon scroll and Mila made a mini pizza with one marshmallow on top.
We sat around together, eating pizza, drinking wine (us not them) and feeling so proud of our accomplishment.
If you’re keen to make one of these little ovens, the cost of 50 bricks and two 500 x 500 pavers was just $117.
We built it in 20 minutes, with no mud sealing or fussing, and were cooking pizzas the same evening.
Total win.
