Momtime will be having our fall kickoff Friday September 10th!!
Come join us at our usual time: 9:15-10:45am at Faith Church!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Brunch at Polly's
Polly invited the group out to her house in Iowa for brunch. It was a beautiful day, she made tons of delicious food and we even got to take some of her gorgeous flowers home!
check out more pictures on our facebook site!
Momtime Tea
Our last meeting of the year, Vicki put together a tea for us. She got a few of the moms to bring in decorations and food for the perfect way to end our year.
More pictures on the Momtime- austin facebook page!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Cookbook Volume: Two
Last year we put together a momtime cookbook. The group has grown and changed a bit since then and there has been mention of doing another one. To appease the masses we will doing another one next fall-- late Sept. I have created the sign-in already for those who wish to start WAY early. I find it easier to enter them as I find ones I like then to have to search and enter then all at once.
Please check the index before entering to make sure your recipe hasn't already been entered.
The price per book will not be known until all recipes are entered and we have an idea of how many books we need. I will NOT be collecting that information until next fall!
To enter a recipe go to: http://www.cookbookco.com
find "online recipe submission" in the lefthand column
and use the name: momtimeaustin
password: momtime2
Please check the index before entering to make sure your recipe hasn't already been entered.
The price per book will not be known until all recipes are entered and we have an idea of how many books we need. I will NOT be collecting that information until next fall!
To enter a recipe go to: http://www.cookbookco.com
find "online recipe submission" in the lefthand column
and use the name: momtimeaustin
password: momtime2
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Retreat 2010
The second annual momtime retreat is over. A few tears at it's passing. A fun time had by all.
We started out with all the pizza you could eat at Paradise pizza.
Then we went back to the Blue Belle Inn and got into our comfy clothes for a rousing game of "Go with the Flo". Players tried to make their teams guess words by either drawing, drawing blindfolded, using "human clay", describing the words with a mouth full of marshmallows or acting it out... depending on the numbered feminine product they pulled out of the purse.
After one too many entries of the word "sad" we stopped and had cheesecake and other snacks. Bed around midnight depending upon which room you were in.
The morning was brunch. We shamefully avoided the only other couple staying in the bed and breakfast because you can't keep 20 moms quiet at 11pm when they're free from all responsibilities (and some of the words we had to act out didn't help either). But they came over and asked if they could speak to the group. They both spoke for a few minutes... encouraging the group to cherish the times that our children our little and telling their story of God's faithfulness. There were tears. The Lord had used them to speak to our hearts and to tell us a few things that He needed us to know. God showed up in a big way and provided the most powerful time of the whole retreat in a completely unplanned "coincidence".
After eyes were dried we did a tour of the shops. Some painted pottery. And then we went home to cuddle our kids.
All pictures and some video can be found at the Momtime Facebook page.
We started out with all the pizza you could eat at Paradise pizza.
Then we went back to the Blue Belle Inn and got into our comfy clothes for a rousing game of "Go with the Flo". Players tried to make their teams guess words by either drawing, drawing blindfolded, using "human clay", describing the words with a mouth full of marshmallows or acting it out... depending on the numbered feminine product they pulled out of the purse.
After one too many entries of the word "sad" we stopped and had cheesecake and other snacks. Bed around midnight depending upon which room you were in.
The morning was brunch. We shamefully avoided the only other couple staying in the bed and breakfast because you can't keep 20 moms quiet at 11pm when they're free from all responsibilities (and some of the words we had to act out didn't help either). But they came over and asked if they could speak to the group. They both spoke for a few minutes... encouraging the group to cherish the times that our children our little and telling their story of God's faithfulness. There were tears. The Lord had used them to speak to our hearts and to tell us a few things that He needed us to know. God showed up in a big way and provided the most powerful time of the whole retreat in a completely unplanned "coincidence".
After eyes were dried we did a tour of the shops. Some painted pottery. And then we went home to cuddle our kids.
All pictures and some video can be found at the Momtime Facebook page.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Craft Hope Project
The current Craft Hope Project project just happens to line up with our Momtime craft of the month.
Here are the details if you would like to knit/crochet a red scarf for a student who has "aged out" of the foster care system.
If you enjoy all kinds of crafting check back to the Craft Hope site frequently to get involved in their upcoming projects. Some of the projects in the past included-- sock monkeys to a children's burn hospital and small quilts for Children in need.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Back to Normal!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years.
This Friday Momtime starts up again. We are going to do another laid back morning. There will be a few moms there teaching knitting to anyone wanting to learn. So bring a skein of yarn if that's you (or a project you're currently working on if you're already a knitting master). Otherwise we have a bunch of new boardgames to try out. Come looking forward to relaxing!
The following Friday we will start a study taken from the ideas in the book Power of a Praying Parent. There won't be any work that has to be done prior to this study... but if you're interested in picking up a copy (or figuring out what you did with the one you have)to go through the chapters as we do-- this is your notice.
Our Mom's Night Out this month will be January 19 from 6:30-8:00 at the Faith Church Youth Building. Polly will be leading us in making freezer meals. Bring $6.00 for class supplies and 4 Ziploc freezer bags. Each mom will go home with 2 -4 easy meals, just add meat at home! RSVP to Bonnie or at momtimeaustin@yahoo.com .
Our Mom's Night Out for February will be the Retreat in St. Ansgar Feb 19-20th. The overnight spots are all filled up, unless you are willing to pay full price. If you want to join us for just Friday Night or just Saturday Morning it's $5 (or $10 for both).
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