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With the new year starting I hope to pick this back up again, but as of right now I am unavailable. Family life is taking front row and right now is all I can handle. I hope to start posting at least once a week, but we will have to see the out come from this week.

Uptown Girls Night Out

This Thursday, August 20th, Uptown Watertown will be having Girls' Night Out. Our theme this year is Bingo. You need to pick up a BINGO card at Classroom Connection anytime after 4pm. Then between 4 & 8 you need to visit the 10 stores that your BINGO card sends you to and have the card stamped. Then turn in your BINGO card by 8:05pm at County Fair Banquet Hall for your chance at many great prizes. You must be present to win. Every store has treats for your enjoyment so you can visit more than just the 10 businesses on your card. Also, if make a purchase for $10 or more, you will recieve a ticket for a special drawing in which we are giving away a Jewel Pop necklace from Makepeace Jewelers. This a great night to get away, spend some time with a friend or two and do some shopping. If you have younger daughters that would like to come, they may also do a BINGO card and we are having a couple if special drawings for those 18 & under.

Summery for July 16th Steering Meeting

We had proposals as follows:

1) Approved- Dues will raise to $25 per whole semester plus int. fees (fees reduced if you start later in semester, after October 1 or March 1) or $50 for the whole year plus int. fees. There are two ways of reducing your dues; help out in Moppets for a meeting/steering meeting or apply for a scholarship.

2) Approved- D-groups will be in charge of supplying family with a life change with one meal. This will be lead by the Table Leader. D-group Coordinator. is in charge of summer.

3) Approved- When a mom brings a child that is not theirs and receives compensation for it, that mother will be asked to consider a donation to the group for the amount they would receive during that time the child is in our Moppets.

Our Ice Cream Social will be Aug. 11Th at 6:30pm. This will be held at McKinley Park in the shelter. We will not be doing registration at that time, will just use it as a social event.

Registration will be at first meeting.

Our next Steering meeting will be held on Aug. 27Th at 9am. We will talk about the first meeting, craft/topics for the first few months of meetings and the budget for the year.

Our first meeting is September 3rd at 9:15am.

MOPS in the Park

Reminder: MOPS in the Park is going to be held at Pemela's Tomorrow.

-11am-1pm

-There will be a climber, pony rides, trampoline

-We are asking for a non-parishable food item per child that comes out

-Bring your own lunch

-There will be baord games for the school age children

If you need directions please e-mail me and I will get them to you.

Thanks and hope you are having a wonderful summer!

Being Authentic

The word for July (idea taken from MOPS leaders website) is Authenticity.

Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions.

From Wikipedia

I struggle with this one a lot. I want people to think that I have it all together and that I do not need help. In reality I need a lot of help and most often just some one to vent to. I have been working on being truthful to my self on how I am feeling about things. I have leaned that in order to be truthful to others, you must first be able to be truthful to yourself. This can be a hard one. You could be feeling one way, talk yourself into having it all together, then you loose it and don't know why. I have had theses days and when I go back to the beginning and think about what all lead up to it.

I think the best example of that is when some one ask you, " How are you today" (your friends, relative, and others that would care). Do you tend to just say, "good". I know I do it. My sister will ask me how my night went or my day is going and it just seams to roll off my tongue. This is not always the case. I think people are less likely to open up to you if you make them feel you are perfect and never have anything go wrong. Something I have been working on changing and really trying to be more authentic.

How about you? Are there areas in your life and need more truth in them?

Where in the bible does it talk about truth and authenticity?

Last MOPS in the Park...

Our last MOPS in the Park will be this Thursday, July 2. It will be at McKinley Park off of Kemp from 11-1. Remember to bring your lunch and join us for an afternoon at the park.

Relationships

This was posted on the MOPS E-mail that was sent out. Sometimes I need help remembering this.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but

what you give. (Eleanor Roosevelt )

I think she was right on with that statement.