GARAGE SALE!!!

Our MOPS group is having a garage sale on Saturday, September 11 from 9a to 3p in the Community Room at Community Reformed Church. Please join us to shop or sell! If you are interested in selling, please email communitymops@gmail.com to rent a table for $10 each (you can pay $20 for 2 tables, etc.). We will do your advertising for you!! You just show up and sell your items, then keep all your profits. Proceeds will benefit our upcoming MOPS program. Thanks!

LOVE KIDS???

Then we need YOU!!! As we are preparing, planning, and trying to make everything perfect for your MOPS experience at Community we are still looking for some help with the MOPPETS (kids) program. As much as MOPS is for moms it also is so important for us to create a fun experience for your kids as well! If you are a member of Community Reformed and would be willing to help out with this program, even if it's just once a month, could you please email communitymops@gmail.com? You could be a young mom, a mom with all your kids in school, or even a grandma, we would love to have you help us out! Thank you!

We are SO EXCITED to begin this program and look forward to seeing you at our open house on September 17!!!

Spilling Joy

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." -Writer Ray Bradbury

Recently I was fed up with sippy cups. They leak, their stoppers fall down the disposal. They disappear under furniture for a few days and emerge when whatever's inside turns good and chunky. The latter happened again. I began wishing all my kids were coordinated enough not to need one.

The same day, my youngest, grinning ear to ear, decided to don my bra on his head. Another son decided his big brother's athletic cup was better suited as a mask. And my oldest, yes, the oldest, drank from an overly full cup so quickly that the ice started up his nose, and he laughed so hard he sprayed everyone at the table. Hysterics ensued.

If I could have traded every spill of my mothering years for the laughter in my house that day, I wouldn't have. How dare I want that comedic trio to grow up any faster than they already are.

My cup -- all our cups -- runneth over.

-Adapted from MomSense, March/April 2010, written by Susan Besze Wallace

Suggestions Welcome!

Thanks for checking out our MOPS blog! As we look forward to starting up MOPS at Community tell us what you would most expect to get out of each MOPS meeting. Is it time spent sharing stories with other moms? Meeting new friends for you or your kids? Something to take away from a speaker? A new craft for you or for your kids? Leave us a comment about what is most important for you to leave with after each meeting and this will help us with planning our first year! We already have some great things planned...just click on the 2010-2011 schedule to check them out. Thanks in advance!