At least I tried, right?

I have been a long-time admirer of the blog Make-and-Takes, along with a few others that regularly inspire me to think, "Wow, I'd really like to do that if I had a lot more time and a little more motivation!" Andrew and I have had lots of conversations recently about taking a hard look at how much sugar and artificial ingredients Aiden and Gracie have been getting. So, I was inspired to try to make Strawberry Fruit Leather. Three ingredients, two steps - how hard could it be? Apparently harder than I thought. Was it cooking it in the oven that did it? Maybe turning the oven off and on in order to a) sleep and b) go to work? Maybe I just didn't have that magic I-make-homemade-snacks-for-my-kids touch. (above - Marie's version). Here was mine - so, so sad...



I am destined to feed my children fruit juice from concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, pectin, citric acid, dextrose, etc. Sorry, kids!

Enjoy -

Can't think of anything creative - why not copy an idea?

Thanks Jess and Ang -

A - Age: 32
B - Bed size: Queen
C - Chore you hate: Hard to pick just one...dusting??
D - Dog's name: nonexistant
E - Essential start your day item: Coffee
F - Favorite color: Green
G - Gold or Silver: Silver lately, but still like gold
H - Height: 5'3+
I - Instruments you play: Scary-sounding piano
J - Job title: reading coach
K - Kid(s): Aiden - 5, Gracie - 2 1/2
L - Living arrangements: 4 bedroom home with husband and kids
M - Mom's name: Gloria
N - Nicknames: Baby, Mommy, P.I.A.
O - Overnight hospital stay: Lucky - only twice - delivering children, once - on awful chair next to Andrew
P - Pet Peeve: hearing someone chew with their mouth open
Q - Quote from a movie: blanking right now. think more of songs from movies
R - Right or left handed: right
S - Siblings: 1 brother not too far away, 2 sisters close by, 2 half-brothers much farther away
T - Time you wake up: work days - 5:30ish, home days - when I have to (7:30 or later on a lucky day!)
U - Underwear: clean
V - Vegetable you dislike: beets
W - Ways/Reasons you run late: any way possible, it's really a way of life
X - X-rays you've had: teeth, knee
Y - Yummy food you make: Jan's lemon bars
Z - Zoo animals you like: meerkats