One Minute Question: Does your family have any Easter traditions or plans?
Topic: Praying for our Marriages
Demonstration: Kamiyo will give a Mending/Sewing demonstration. You can learn a new stitch or how to sew on a button. Bring any items that you need assistance mending!
Interview: This week we get to learn more about Kimberly Richards!
NO MCB Meeting next week – March 31st.
Contact List: I am doing a final update of our contact list for the school year. This is the paper list of phone numbers you will have all summer of the ladies you have met this year. Please let me know if you have changed your email, physical address, or phone number so that we will have your current information.
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.” Lam 3:22-23
One Minute Question: How do you know if you have your child’s heart?
Topic: Don’t we naturally have our children’s heart?
Demonstration: Kamiyo will give a Mending/Sewing demonstration. You can learn a new stitch or how to sew on a button. Bring any items that you need assistance mending!
Contact List: I am doing a final update of our contact list for the school year. This is the paper list of phone numbers you will have all summer of the ladies you have met this year. Please let me know if you have changed your email, physical address, or phone number so that we will have your current information.
Hi all! I've added to our "links we like" list a few sites that came up last week. Check 'em out!
PluggedInOnline.com is the Focus On the Family place to review media, etc. Prayercentral.net - that's the place with "Fetch-a-prayer" where you can get individualized reminders and prayers to pray specific to a family member, etc. Living on a Dime is related to the cook book Kristi shared, thanks Amylnn ;)
Wow, we are so spoiled by the online resources at our fingertips!
Wow ladies, that was one heartfelt meeting! Thank you for sharing your heart and emotions with all of us. What a unique group that we can all be so vulnerable with one another and continue to love one another as we are all growing and learning about being parents. I truly appreciate that we can support and respect each other through our growing pains. It is so rare to have such unconditional support and acceptance. You are all such amazing women. -Eileen
One Minute Question: What are two things we can do daily for each child so that they know that we love them.
Topic: Until you know your destination/goal, you can’t know how to get there. Let’s discuss our Ultimate Goal in raising our children.
Pic-Nic: If the weather looks like it will be sunny then pack a lunch to eat at the playground after MCB. The kids have a blast playing in the church’s fully fenced in yard while we continue our conversations in the sun!
Kristy brought in an awesome cookbook a few weeks ago, and I'd mentioned that the author has free blog. Here it is! I've enjoyed learning a lot from this lady over the years! She's got a LOT more fiscal willpower than I do, that's for sure :)
Well, look what I found when I got home! I hopened up a Christian mom's magazine and saw this... (and my mind is still spinning.. I scanned it and it transcribed the magazine page to a word document! Of all things!)
Anyway, This kind of summed up today's meeting for me.. God bless you all, I appreciate the group so very much xox :)
Seven Tips for Building the Christian Family You Never Had
Read parenting books with a caveat of grace. With every book I read, I berated myself for not being a perfect Christian mom, instead of letting the words encourage me to improve my parenting. Offer yourself grace when reading these books.
Find or observe a parenting mentor.
If you notice someone you think is parenting her kids well, ask her questions and observe her.There's nothing better than learning from a real live human being.
Say, "I'm sorry." All parents make mistakes. We say painful words that we heard our parents say. The best way to disarm this is to admit it. Asking our children and others for forgiveness opens the door to improving relationships.
Understand that parenting is not
outside-in, but inside-out. God is in
the business of cleaning, healing and rejuvenating our hearts from the inside out. The greater the healing, the more authentic and effective our parenting will be.
Forgive your parents. Forgiveness sets you free — free to love your imperfect parents, free to give grace to your imperfect self as you struggle to parent. Holding bitterness in your heart hinders you from parenting freely in the present.
Stop the comparison game. Few acts are more destructive than comparison. God asks us to concentrate on our own families and revel in what he has given us.
Find support. My parenting skills increased when I found other parents who struggled just like me. I realized I was a normal parent with typical struggles. I was able to laugh at my mistakes and continue down the parenting path.
Adapted from Building the Christian Family You Never Had by Mary E. DeMuth (WaterBrook, 2006)
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