Welcome back MOPPERS! It was so great to see everyone on Friday! Many thanks to our always marvelous Mentor Moms for the fabulous breakfast. You guys take the best care of us!
Please join us in the warmest of welcome to our new members:
Aleini Lacombe (Red Table)
Ashley Lynn (Orange Table)
Pamela Robinson (Orange Table)
Chasity Henderson (Yellow Table)
Chrisanna Mooney (Blue Table)
And...returning member Alison Makhlouf (Blue Table)
Also, help me to welcome our newest Mentor Mom, Jennifer Wells!
Thank you to Kelly Otero for organizing the Chuck E. Cheese playdate on the 14th and the 15th. Our mommy social this month is on Thursday, January 24th at The Glazery on Dulles and Cartwright. We will meet at 7pm. If you plan to attend, please contact Kelly (theoteros@mac.com). There is no need to pay in advance; you will simply pay for whatever piece you choose to paint. Feel free to bring an appetizer or sweet to share! (www.theglazery.com)
Our next meeting on the 25th will feature another fun craft that will involve a few items from home. Keep an eye out for an email from Cori Atkins with further instructions.
Many thanks to all who participated in the diaper drive during the meeting. Thanks to Shelli LeBret and Meredith Canny for overseeing the delivery of the diapers to the next Young Lives meeting on the 24th.
Lauran Helms reminded us that it is time to start gearing up for VBS! Mark your calendars for June 24th - June 28th. The website should be up and running by the next meeting so volunteers can sign up. If you and your children have never participated in VBS at CUMC, trust me, you are not going to want to miss out on all the fun!!!
Kim Garnett reminded us that our MOPS Favorite Things meeting is coming up on March 22nd. Start thinking of some of your "favorite things" to share with the group. Your favorite thing can be anything (food, apps, workouts, underwear, mommy gadgets, household items, etc). Be on the lookout for more info from Kim.
Get out your wedding dresses! For our Valentine’s meeting on February 8th, everyone is encouraged to wear your wedding dress, a favorite/awful bridesmaid dress, your veil, etc. If your dress doesn’t fit exactly as it did on the day, who cares??? We’re all among friends and it’s all in the name of good fun! Email your wedding stories to Lauran Helms (lauranhelms@gmail.com). Email your funniest wedding pic to Kim Garnett (khgarnett@gmail.com). Bring your wedding albums to that meeting and we will all swap and reminisce!
Remember to bring any unwanted/outgrown baby/kid/mommy items to meetings and put them on the piano. Anything not claimed will go to Young Lives.
Black MOPS t-shirts are still for sale for $10.
If you have a home-based business, remember that we have a table set up for you to use during meetings to let our members know about your business.
The rest of the meeting was spent getting to know one another with ice breakers.
Lauran Helms closed us out with an awesome devotional on resolutions. She read to us from Psalm 90 on how we cannot keep our sins a secret from God. She also read to us from James 4: 13-15 which cautions us about boasting about the future. Finally, she encouraged us to make Philippians 3:3-10, which encourages us to deepen our relationship with Christ, our motto for the year!
Next meeting is January 25th. Red Table is up for breakfast. Prayers for everyone getting healthy and staying healthy with everything going around. See you then!
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