Alien Adventure: Growing with Extended Family!
Greetings Earthling Mothers – thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule for yourself. We had a great morning with two new mothers visiting us, Donna and Barbara. We hope to see you back at our next meeting. A huge welcome to Robin Bennett who joined us for the first time at the Shooting Starlets table – we’re glad you’ve joined us on this journey.
Thank you to the ever beautiful Galaxy Girls to the Rescue table for a scrumpdelilicious and plentiful brunch. Jenn Adams’ glory-winning recipe for Hummingbird Cake is included below. But I also heard rave reviews on many of the other dishes too! The Luscious Lunas are our hostesses with the mostess next meeting and we look forward to their brunch offering.
At the end of brunch, Marin delivered her annual “Coupon Queen” address. The presentation and notes are included in this email. Another email with websites and other tips will be forwarded at a later time. We had such great conversation and idea sharing that we totally missed our “formal” icebreaker – the conversation really was good and flowing. Thanks to all you other smart mommas out there for sharing your ideas – let’s keep the chatter alive.
How timely was our DVD lesson in Growing with Extended Family – right before the holidays and all? Do you ever feel like that? Did your conversation enable you as a daughter/daughter-in-law, mom, wife and sister/sister-in-law to see that there may be somebody out there with a similar experience? This Planet Mom experience is starting to look a little more do-able when you have a buddy to walk along with you, isn’t it?
A huge thank you from the Steering Team for all the moms who stayed behind to help tidy up the Fellowship Hall – your help was a true blessing!
I am attaching an e-copy of the Newsletter for you to read at your leisure – enjoy! Let’s continue the fun on Tuesday at our Pumpkin Painting, Playground and Picnic Playdate at the Lynn Haven Community Center. In the remaining parts of this email I want to share some great books with you, some great crafts for Fall, concluding with a MOPS poem and a bunch of fun stuff in between – I hope you enjoy!
The journey continues at our next meeting, Thursday, November 12, 2009 entitled, Your Atmosphere: Protecting What is Important to You. We all have things we consider precious but how about those memories preserved on paper? Remember childcare opens at 8:45am and our meeting starts promptly at 9am.
At this meeting, we invite you to participate in several table-based competitions/discussions:
1) Bring in your Operation Christmas Child boxes – who will be the table to beat here? Don’t forget to include a check for the shipping charges or pay online.
2) Bring in your donations to our Annual Canned Food Drive – again this will be a table vs table competition! Good Luck Ladies!
3) Bring in your favorite picture (for discussion purposes only – this will not be used in a craft).
Let us know how you enjoyed the meeting and any ways we can meet your needs. We can always be reached at hilandparkmops@gmail.com.
May God bless you and your family as you continue on your journey!
Laugh. Love. Live.
Jenn Shaw
Oct 26, 2009
Oct 8, 2009
October 8th Meeting Recap
WOW! What an energy-filled morning!!! Could you guys feel all the energy – even with this oppressive heat – I guess this is global warming – summer high temperatures in October. We beat the heat and had a grand time! Aren’t you glad you came to MOPS this morning?
Welcome to our new moms Candace and Amy and to their beautiful additions to our MOPPETS program. We are so thrilled you are here! We will welcome a new mom to the Shooting Starlets next meeting….stay tuned!
Thank you to the ever beautiful Total Eclipse of the Heart table for a wonderful brunch. Tonia’s recipe for Les Treches is included below. But I also heard rave reviews on many of the other dishes too! The Galaxy Girls to the Rescue have a high bar to beat next meeting but I think they are up to the challenge! One word – YUMMY! Did you enjoy eating and catching up with your tablemates?
At the end of brunch, Marin kicked off our Operation Christmas Child program. This program enables our group to reach into the global community and bless children less fortunate than ours with gifts they otherwise would not have. We will be collecting the OCC shoeboxes at our November 12th meeting so you have about a month to bargain shop for your boxes. I’m curious if anyone can fill a shoebox for below the Marin-average of $6.25? If you would like more information, please visit http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/index/.
How fantastic was our guest speaker Pamela Trumpeter – what a fighter and an inspiration! Her breast cancer battle mantra “You have to have humor” is also so easily applied to mothering, isn’t it? Please remember Pamela in your prayers and all the other victims of this vicious disease. An interesting paradox though when she said she was thankful for this disease as it led her to the discovery of the sweetness with God and Jesus.
We then started our wellness stations. Okay – other than Madeline – who else figured out they were wearing the wrong size bra? Enlightening wasn’t it? How about those massages --- thank you Back Connection (www.thebackconnection.com) for a wonderful massage surprise! Kathy and Laurie were also surprised by a free massage from The Back Connection. Also many thanks to Alicia and Pamela for sharing their words of wisdom and statistics with us and for Julie Barrentine for sharing the wonderful holistic secrets of Arbonne and the great $50 gift certificate won by Kris! Thanks again to Madeline for sharing the nutrition experience with us too!
Okay, the highlight of my morning honestly was those baskets! How wonderfully generous, creative and crafty are all of you?! All the baskets were collected by Alicia for the Strides against Breast Cancer Walk’s Silent Auction on Friday, September 16th. You are all absolutely amazing and your generosity is endless. Thank you for stepping up for such a wonderful cause! BRAVO! Please feel free to join our team, the Hiland Park MOPS Walkin’ Mommas and walk that 5k with some great women! Let’s not let Madeline walk alone!
A huge thank you from the Steering Team for all the moms who stayed behind to help tidy up the Fellowship Hall – your help was a true blessing!
I am attaching an e-copy of the Newsletter for you to read at your leisure – enjoy! Let’s continue the fun on Tuesday at our Mom’s Night Out --- Bunco for Breast Cancer hosted by Jennie and Jenn at Jenn's house. In the remaining parts of this email I want to share some great books with you, some great crafts for Fall, concluding with a MOPS poem and a bunch of fun stuff in between – I hope you enjoy!
The journey continues at our next meeting, Thursday, October 22, 2009 entitled, Alien Adventure: Growing with Extended Family. Who doesn’t have aliens in their closet? Remember childcare opens at 8:45am and our meeting starts promptly at 9am. This will be the last meeting you can buy your very own MOPS t-shirt!
Let us know how you enjoyed the meeting and any ways we can meet your needs. We can always be reached at hilandparkmops at gmail.com.
May God bless you and your family as you continue on your journey!
Welcome to our new moms Candace and Amy and to their beautiful additions to our MOPPETS program. We are so thrilled you are here! We will welcome a new mom to the Shooting Starlets next meeting….stay tuned!
Thank you to the ever beautiful Total Eclipse of the Heart table for a wonderful brunch. Tonia’s recipe for Les Treches is included below. But I also heard rave reviews on many of the other dishes too! The Galaxy Girls to the Rescue have a high bar to beat next meeting but I think they are up to the challenge! One word – YUMMY! Did you enjoy eating and catching up with your tablemates?
At the end of brunch, Marin kicked off our Operation Christmas Child program. This program enables our group to reach into the global community and bless children less fortunate than ours with gifts they otherwise would not have. We will be collecting the OCC shoeboxes at our November 12th meeting so you have about a month to bargain shop for your boxes. I’m curious if anyone can fill a shoebox for below the Marin-average of $6.25? If you would like more information, please visit http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/index/.
How fantastic was our guest speaker Pamela Trumpeter – what a fighter and an inspiration! Her breast cancer battle mantra “You have to have humor” is also so easily applied to mothering, isn’t it? Please remember Pamela in your prayers and all the other victims of this vicious disease. An interesting paradox though when she said she was thankful for this disease as it led her to the discovery of the sweetness with God and Jesus.
We then started our wellness stations. Okay – other than Madeline – who else figured out they were wearing the wrong size bra? Enlightening wasn’t it? How about those massages --- thank you Back Connection (www.thebackconnection.com) for a wonderful massage surprise! Kathy and Laurie were also surprised by a free massage from The Back Connection. Also many thanks to Alicia and Pamela for sharing their words of wisdom and statistics with us and for Julie Barrentine for sharing the wonderful holistic secrets of Arbonne and the great $50 gift certificate won by Kris! Thanks again to Madeline for sharing the nutrition experience with us too!
Okay, the highlight of my morning honestly was those baskets! How wonderfully generous, creative and crafty are all of you?! All the baskets were collected by Alicia for the Strides against Breast Cancer Walk’s Silent Auction on Friday, September 16th. You are all absolutely amazing and your generosity is endless. Thank you for stepping up for such a wonderful cause! BRAVO! Please feel free to join our team, the Hiland Park MOPS Walkin’ Mommas and walk that 5k with some great women! Let’s not let Madeline walk alone!
A huge thank you from the Steering Team for all the moms who stayed behind to help tidy up the Fellowship Hall – your help was a true blessing!
I am attaching an e-copy of the Newsletter for you to read at your leisure – enjoy! Let’s continue the fun on Tuesday at our Mom’s Night Out --- Bunco for Breast Cancer hosted by Jennie and Jenn at Jenn's house. In the remaining parts of this email I want to share some great books with you, some great crafts for Fall, concluding with a MOPS poem and a bunch of fun stuff in between – I hope you enjoy!
The journey continues at our next meeting, Thursday, October 22, 2009 entitled, Alien Adventure: Growing with Extended Family. Who doesn’t have aliens in their closet? Remember childcare opens at 8:45am and our meeting starts promptly at 9am. This will be the last meeting you can buy your very own MOPS t-shirt!
Let us know how you enjoyed the meeting and any ways we can meet your needs. We can always be reached at hilandparkmops at gmail.com.
May God bless you and your family as you continue on your journey!
Galaxy Girls to the Rescue!
Luscious Lunas with their donated Abrakadoodle Basket! Thanks Erinn!
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