Next Meeting - January 8th

Have a Merry Christmas Ladies....
and celebrate with Great Joy for the New Year....

My son learned a new meaning for the Holiday JOY this season...
To appreciate the best this season has to offer keep this in mind:
Real JOY comes from doing things for
J = Jesus
O = Others
Y = Yourself

See you all in 2008!

Next Meeting - December 18th

Christmas Party Time!

I know it's a crazy time of year moms.... and you have 1001 things to do, 999 of which are not even started yet (if you are like me). But in all of this craziness, you still need time to sit and relax for a while.... so make sure you take time to get to our Christmas Meeting next Tuesday.

We have lots of fun things planned - our *WAVI gift project*, a special edition of the Christmas Singing Bee.... I'm making some Christmas spiced apple cider, and of course we always have our coffee and creamer(s)... hot cocoa and tea, and yumm-o brunch treats!

*WAVI Gift project reminder: If you don't remember what you signed up for or haven't picked up your WAVI gift yet... just plan to bring whatever toiletry items (or towel and washcloth) you think would be good for a lady away from home to have. We'll put our new "bow making skills" to the test when we wrap up our gift packages... it should be a LOT of fun!

Next Meeting - November 20th

At our Nov. 20th meeting we will be working on our

Christmas Fundraiser:
All-Occasion note cards of your child's orginal artwork.
We will have your child's art on display, and order forms ready to go, with samples of what the finished product will look like.

If you would like to have your child create an alternate art page (instead of the one they created in MOPPETS class last meeting) - or if your child was not at the last meeting, you can bring artwork with you for THIS MEETING ONLY. Artwork can be on ANY white paper, size 8x11, using any medium (crayon, paint, markers, colored pencils, etc). Cards will be printed in full color. For younger children we are doing a print of thier hand or feet (one or the other, not both). You can also produce a hand/foot print of your child, if you would like.

We are hoping these All-Occasion cards would be useful to you as Christmas cards, Christmas gifts, or any occasion cards. Please help support our group and have fun with your child's art!

New MomSense Magazine...

Everyone in the group should have gotten the latest issue of MomSense in the last week or so. It is the November/December issue and has some great articles. I LOVE the show "Trading Spaces"... and was so please to see Laurie Smith interviewed this month.

I also loved the artice by Julie Barnhill called "One Tough Holiday Mother." I don't know how many of you have had issues during the Holidays with your extended families -- trying to decide where to spend the Holiday... how many relatives to "hop" between on the holiday.... this article definately gave me some good ideas. I just got Ms. Barnhills newest book, "One Tough Mother"... and I'm trying to speed read through it, so I can give you all a book report at our next meeting. It's been very inspiring!!


I have a fun challenge for all you moms who visit the website... I'll have a special treat for EVERY mom at the next meeting who can complete this challenge from this MomSense issue.

1. What is the game the Rogers family played at Christmas, from the article, The Tradition Junkie?

2. What is the name of the newest Boz Christmas video? (advertisement)

3. In the Just For Fun section, there is a suggestion to make holiday placemats with your kids and the author gives 4 different easy Christmas designs... a reindeer, a wreath, an angel and a ____.