Thankful for MOPS

November was a good month for us! Our Take Over Tuesdays are in full swing with each mom tagging the mom for the next week. It's a neat way to follow along and get to know each other. Our first November speaker was Ashley Holt, from J. Ashley. She brought along her closet and more and we talked about fashion, style and keeping your closet organized. It's easy to get in a slump when surrounded by kids who are spitting up on you. Ashley gave us some great tips on how you can stay in style through motherhood. I totally added boots and a jean jacket to my yoga-pant-tshirt uniform this week and looked and FELT great!

Our new sign is quite an improvement

We had to dress a mannequin

Talking about fashion

We had a Blessing Way to honor one of our members, Lynn. Erica hosted the lovely party. It was neat preparing her for the birth of her 5th baby!

Honoring Lynn

Going into the holiday season it was nice to have Erin Pruett, licensed mental health counselor talk to the group. As always, things discussed at the meeting stay there so protect the privacy of the group. Erin is currently working with Rethreaded, an organization that provides employment and healing therapy to women who have been involved in human trafficking. It was powerful.
We had to cancel our moms night out at Creative Grain, but there was a last minute one at La Nap. Lots of play dates all over, too- MOSH, playgrounds, each other's houses, the library, etc. If you haven't made it to anything yet. Let us know what works for you and we can plan something around your schedule!

Kids got in free many places this month! It was fun to explore new ones!

Weekend play date at MOCA

Arise as a Mother

For our first meeting in March, we played games. It felt so good to laugh. I mean like real, belly laughs. Kate had to wrap herself in toilet paper as a mummy for half the meeting. Jinny had to sit under the table for the other half. It was a great stress reliever! For our second meeting of March we had Erin Roskelly from First Command talk to us about finances. We discussed one family checking account, saving for kids colleges, life insurance and all sorts of money issues. There were lots of fun play dates enjoying the gorgeous spring weather. One Tree Hill is a favorite as is the zoo and lots of parks in the area. We did a Monday evening family bowling party. It was a great turn out. The kids loved to bowl and some parents got a chance to get in there, too. It's neat that the dads were excited to hang out again, too. We cleaned out our closets to bring to a clothing swap moms night out at Khristi's. I left with a bag of goodies. All the clothes not claimed were donat...

Chasing Joy in 2021

I was thinking I'd be blogging once a month and then all of a sudden, it's January. Please, feel free to take over the blogger roll as I am failing. Let's do a recap. Our first meeting in November was moved to Tillie Fowler Park. Our one and only nursery worker, Carolyn had a COVID scare so she stayed home to be extra cautious. There also happened to be a scheduling error so we took that as a God Moment and moved to the park. We wrote thank you notes and talked about all the things we are grateful for. It was perfect timing headed into the Thanksgiving holiday. Kate has been awesome at putting together girls nights and hosting them at her home. She even has party cups for us and a neat air filter system in her house to keep the air circulating in these COVID times. After Halloween she hosted a movie night to watch Witches. Anne has been putting together some play dates. A group went to the beach, Cummer Museum , zoo and the Jax Arboretum in November. There have been a f...

Happy Fall, Y'all!

Our speaker series has begun. Dr. Mae Barker was our first speaker talking about parenting solutions. A few good take aways that I have are that "As parents we basically regulate sugar and technology." That's so true! I asked about my negative child. Mae suggested making it fun and turning it into a game. Picky eaters? Check out this book . I also use Positive Parenting a lot if anyone wants to borrow it. That's another Mae suggestion. "If two children are having an argument, and mama is not in the house to hear it...did the argument happen?" Getting down and giving practical tips to Alison Hand out on reward system (zoom in) SLEEP! We had a bunch of pop up play dates to parks, the indoor playground and the zoo. We also had a weekend play date to Amazing Grace Crop Maze. The play dates are a great way to get to know other moms and have your children make friends, too. For our second meeting in October, we had Onie Le...

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