Christmas Brunch

Our last meeting of the year was a brunch with lots of food and fun! Everyone brought a dish to share and there was lots of good food to eat! Casseroles, cheesecakes, chips, crackers and chocolate...YUM! Lori and Mrs. Sue did a marvelous job of decorating the tables. Mrs. Sue played the piano while we ate, and the Harbor staff joined us.
The Secret Sisters revealed themselves with some great presents. A few had their suspicions about who their secret sister had been all along and some were surprised.
We all pulled a number out of a basket and played "Dirty Santa" with $1 Christmas ornaments. There were a few that were hot items and passed through a few hands until they were retired.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a very terrific new year!

Christmas Cookie Exchange

Tonight was our cookie exchange at Leslie's house. We were expecting around 12 moms and ended up with a total of 14! There were cookies galore!!!
Leslie, Mrs. Debbie and Lori made some goodies for us to eat, including meatballs, spinach dip, celery with pimento cheese and there was wine, egg nog, punch and sodas. After filling up and chatting, we got to go around and fill up our cookie tins! Yum!! There was fudge, chocolate chip cookies, macaroons, and some with raspberry jam, m&m's, Hershey kisses, and cute snowmen!

Seventh Meeting

I regret that I didn't get any pictures at this meeting. :( We made some great organizational cards to put on the kids' drawers (pants, shirts, underwear, etc.), toy boxes/bins (legos, barbies, cars, etc.) and menu cards (mac & cheese, pb & j, sides, etc.) to give the kids their own choice to eat. Here are the cards I made for my son's drawers. They are already working!
We did an icebreaker next to introduce the newer members and then share adventures we've had as mothers. There were some very funny stories!

MNO at La Costa

Tonight was a lot of fun! Six of us (plus one sleeping baby) ate out at La Costa Mexican Restaurant. Leslie had a great recommendation for Amy and Melissa to try: Pollo Fundito. It definitely looked good.
It was Melissa's birthday, so we HAD to inform our waiter about it! They brought out a sombrero and sang to her!
Don't miss the next one, Ladies!

Making Pillowcase Dresses

Tonight, Kelly hosted several moms to come over with supplies and sewing machines (very graciously, as it was her birthday!!). Dee helped us all to make a pillowcase dress for our daughters. After a lot of time and mishaps, almost everyone completed a dress. We are hoping to do it again soon!

Sixth Meeting

Today Jennifer gave us an encouraging devotion about God's control in this unsettled time, just after the election.
We had a female police officer speak about personal safety, gearing us up for the holidays. One of her most important points was to just BE AWARE of your surroundings. She also gave us some tips about defending ourselves in case of a physical attack and a whistle to carry with us. All the moms had great questions for her and she did a wonderful job of answering them!
Afterward, we played 20 questions. We each had a person, like Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Denzel Washington, assigned to us and the other moms had to guess who we were. It was a lot of fun!

Fifth Meeting

Today was a fifth Wednesday, which is traditionally a Game or Craft Day. But because this election has had such a huge impact so far, we decided we'd get speakers who knew more about the hot topics. They were the chair of the Republican Party, Chris Dean and chair of the Democrat Party, Jim Morgan. There were some sticky questions, but a lot of good information and plenty of opinions!
Here are our spooky treats.