PRAY

I wanted to create something to help me remember to pray for many different prayer requests that we receive daily from our family, friends, and church family.
So many times I meant to remember to pray for things, but since I didn't have an obvious place to write them down, I would often forget. I wanted something easily updated as well.
I also wanted to sort of split up the categories of prayer, following an old acronym:
P stands for Praises for God's goodness
R stands for Requests for God's grace
A stands for Admitting your sins
Y stands for Yielding to God's will

Thus, my prayer board was born!

I made it so that when I use a dry-erase marker, we can wipe off prayers that are answered and add new ones as needed.
When my daughter A gets older, I am planning on making one she can keep in her room when she starts to pray before bedtime more by herself. Then she can help write

If you want one, I can make one for you! Just give me a color scheme that you would like, and I can whip one up in a jiffy and send it your way!

contact me at tapintocreativetree@gmail.com

Tuna Bruschetta Cups

I enjoy tuna. Not the fancy type either, like tuna steaks, but plain old tuna out of a can. I know we aren't supposed to eat a lot of it because of mercury and whatnot, but once in a while it is nice. I wanted to dress this simple protein up a little bit, so I played around with some different ideas and came up with my Tuna Bruschetta cups. Here we go!
(keep in mind, I just have a regular digital camera and I don't know very much about it, so sorry if the pictures aren't high quality!)

Tuna Bruschetta Cups

2 tubes refrigerated crescent roll dough
2 Roma tomatoes, diced
1 Tbsp Basil
1/2 tsp minced garlic
1/2 tsp oil (olive or vegetable)
1 tsp balsamic vinaigrette dressing
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

2 (6 oz) cans tuna in water, drained
1/2 tsp mustard
1/2 tsp relish
chopped onion to taste
salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan cheese

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Lightly grease the cups of a muffin tin.
3. Open crescent rolls and press one triangle into each muffin cup, forming a small crust (You will have four extra triangles to bake or save). Bake for 6 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine tomatoes, basil, garlic, oil, balsamic vinaigrette, salt, and pepper. Set aside.

5. In another small bowl, combine tuna, mustard, relish, onion, salt, and pepper. Set aside.

6. Remove partially baked crusts from the oven and depress the dough back down to form a crust.


7. Distribute tuna mixture evenly between the crusts, and then top with tomatoes.


8. Bake an additional 7 minutes.
9. Remove from oven and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.


So what to do with those four lonely little crescent triangles?
I used another muffin tin, lightly greased and formed four more little crusts.
Pre-bake these crusts for 6-7 minutes.
Then I used:

2 individual diced peach cups, drained (like for lunchboxes)
1-2 Tbsp brown sugar
cinnamon
cloves
nutmeg

Mix in a small bowl, and distribute among the crusts. Bake an additional 7-8 minutes.
And VOILA! Peach tarts!
Depending how much you love spices, you can experiment with the amount you add to the peaches.