December Mom's Night Out

Our Mom's Night Out this month is a special one.  We're having a Christmas Potluck on December 19th from 6:30-8:30 pm at FBC South Campus Gym.

Events include:
     Minute To Win It : Christmas Edition
     Ugly Sweater Contest
     Leaders Table Decorating Contest
     Gift Exchange

So, sign up to bring a finger food, appetizer, or dessert, start shopping for your ugly sweater and $10 gift, and prepare to have lots of fun!

December Events

Oh, December is a busy one!  We thought we'd try to keep things simple for you this month.

December 2 - Monthly MOPS meeting.  Our theme for December is Beautifying Your Mess.  More details here.

December 6 - Movie and Lunch in Owasso

December 14 - Babysitting Fundraiser

December 16 - Gym Play Date

December 19 - MNO Christmas Party

As always, more information can be found on our facebook page or you can request info via our contact form to the right.

December Meeting Preview

Our December meeting is just two weeks away!  This month our theme is Beautifying Your Mess.

Marcy will be teaching us some easy holiday decorating tips.  She's put together a cute way to display your holiday cards too!

Lucia is working on some great discussion topics for us.  We'll be talking about Holiday Stress and how to look past the mess and see the beauty in the holiday season.

We'll have a quick breakfast of donuts and muffins.  Then, we're having a Christmas Luncheon immediately following our meeting!  So, instead of bringing brunch items we're having you provide the sides and desserts.  Your MOPS leaders will take care of the turkey and ham.  Assignments follow.  Sign up with your table leader.
    
     The Cooking Cuties (Heidi) - Desserts
     The Sleepless Beauties (Jennifer) - Desserts
     The Chore Chicks (Brandi) - Drinks and Bread
     The Magnificent Multitaskers (Kim) - Sides
     The Garden Gals (Mary Ann) - Sides
     And the Diaper Divas (Lucia) - Donuts and Muffins

We'll also be recognizing and thanking our child care workers with a gift as well as sharing lunch with them.

Don't forget to pay your membership fee.  At this point in the year the fee has been reduced to $60 for new members or $5 per meeting.

Also, don't forget we're collecting Single Serving Soups for the community's Backpack Program.

As always, we'll have a fabulous door prize to give away!

Moppets : December with BOZ Preview

It's a special time of year for our Moppets!

Your kids are invited to a birthday party for Jesus!  We'll be singing Christmas Carols, snacking on cupcakes, cookies, and popcorn, making ornaments, and watching a movie!  We're also putting together care packages for people in our community needing a little extra help with the basics this year.  Your child will need to bring travel sized personal hygiene items to put in their care package.  We'll then deliver them to SEAC to be handed out to the community.  Kids are encouraged to wear PJs (one less thing you have to do before you leave the house, right?).  Then, join us afterward for our Christmas dinner in the gym where we'll be thanking all of our wonderful child care workers.

Personal hygiene items still needed :
    

     20 travel toothpaste

     20 toothbrushes     

     20 handsanitizers
     20 chapsticks

     20 travel shaving creams

 

Let us know what you'll be bringing on our facebook page or use the contact form to the right.

Memory Verse : Jesus was born for me.  Luke 2:11
Biblical Concept : God's son, Jesus, was born on Christmas.
Concept in Action : I can celebrate that Jesus was born on Christmas.

Print off the color sheet and use it as a starting point to talk about Christmas and Jesus's birth with your child.

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MOPS November Activity Calendar

Have you visited mops.org yet?  Every month they put together a fun activity calendar and share it with us moms.  Most of the activities can be done as a family.  A few are for mom only.  Go check it out!

November Activity Calendar!

MOPS Christmas Babysitting Fundraiser

We are super excited about our next fundraiser!  Your awesome MOPS leaders have volunteered to watch all your kids so you can enjoy some last minute (or get started?) Christmas shopping!

We'll play games, make a Christmas craft, have snacks, and watch a Christmas movie (babies and toddlers will watch Veggie Tales and school age kids will watch Polar Express!).  The cost will be $10 per child ages birth through 5th grade.  If you have kids older than 5th grade we'd love a few helpers!

The fundraiser will be Saturday December 14th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm and will be in the preschool building.

All proceeds will go to our MOPS program!

This fundraiser is only open to members of MOPS and FBCSkiatook.  We wish we could open it to everyone but we just don't have the capacity!

To RSVP or request more information, contact Heidi or use the contact form to the right.

November Meeting : Feeding Your Mess

We had another awesome MOPS meeting this month!

Our theme this month was Feeding Your Mess : Menu Planning.  We invited Kristy Still from Mommy Hates Cooking to speak to us about Menu Planning.  Kristy left us all feeling inspired to try new things in the kitchen!

Our craft this month was a Menu Planning Binder.  Marcy pulled together several tools to help us orgainze our meals, including Kristy's eBook Menu Planning 101.  They turned out so cute!

Lucia put together our discussion questions about Meal Planning and Family Dinner Time.  Below is a sampling of those.
     What did dinners look like in your family growing up?
     What is your family's dinner experience?
     Where do you get your recipe inspiration?

Again this month we had an amazing turnout of over 30 moms!  One of those moms won our big door prize and went home with a Thirty One Home Organizer!  Between that and her Menu Planning Binder her kitchen will be well organized!

Our next meeting will be December 2.  We'll be sharing a Christmas meal and thanking our child care workers.  Hope to see everyone back in December!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moppets : November with BOZ Preview

B Nice 2 Each Other!

The Golden Rule, or being kind to others, is the next theme for BOZ Treehouse Time! at MOPPETS. To Introduce this topic, please look for opportunities to model kindness and catch your child showing kindness. This concept is most easily understood when the word “kind” is associated with a good deed. For example, you might say, “You were kind to Skippy when you filled his water dish”.

 

Young children are concrete thinkers, yet kindness is an abstract concept. Young children can’t touch, smell, or taste kindness, but they can learn that kindness means doing something good for someone else. God is kind to us. Our thanks to God overflows in the form of being kind to others.

Verse: Be Kind to everyone. 2Tim 2:24

Biblical Concept: God is kind to us. We can be kind to others.

Concept in Action: I can be kind.

Note: 3’s -5’s will be sent home with a note about an additional activity that they will complete at the December meeting.  They will collect the following items and bring them to the December meeting to make care packets that I will take to SEAC and put in the church office to be distributed to people within our community that are in need. Items needed: lg ziplock bags, bars of soap, travel shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, disposable cleaning wipes, washcloths, combs, etc. We will put a label on each bag that will have our church name on it along with a “Come worship with us” note.  Start collecting now!


Be sure to visit BOZ at BOZthebear.com for more activities to share with your children this month!