Oct 22 Recap

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