A Great Resource for Parents of Little Girls

I know we are using our church wide devotionals right now, but I wanted to reccommend an additional resource for you. God’s Little Princes Devotional Bible is a Children’s Bible story and devotional guide for little girls ages 4-7. As a preschool minister I highly recommend this book to families. It is a great tool to help start that faith journey for little girls and to grow them up understanding what it means to be God’s little Princess. This little book is packed with ideas that will help parents to share family Bible Reading time together. But it is much more than just a little Bible Story book. Sheila Walsh has done a fabulous job weaving in ideas for acting out the stories which helps the story come to life as well as a great way for little girls to remember what the story was about which helps scripture stick; manners alerts, that allow mommies and daddies the opportunity to teach their little girls how to have those traits that every little princess should have; Bible Princess snapshots, allowing you to take a look at some of the Bible’s “Princesses” and finally reminders to them about where real beauty originates from within. If you are looking for a great book to inspire your little girls to read the Bible and to help you jazz up your family devotionals buy this book.

Some Highlights from Camp Momanmee

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Camp Momanmee 2009

So much fun....

I can't believe I haven't posted anything that we are doing since Parent Commitment. Lots of fun things are ahead and we have been working very hard to get them going. We also finished out another wonderful year of CDC (or mother's day out program). We are gearing up to start our new curriculum for the summer in Promiseland as well. Its called "In the Beginning". Its gonna be a fun summer in there. One big hint we will have a Funologist leading our Bible story time. So you can only imagine what kinda amazing things are going to happen with a name like that.

Our most recent event was our first ever Pajamamamarama! This was an overnight event for our mommies and their pre-k and kindergarten little girls. It was a pink and green kind of night. Lots of glitter, jewels, gems, feathers, and colorful fun PJ's. And did I tell you that they were SUPER excited ALL NIGHT? Yes I heard squeals and screams that could have broken glass during some of the fun. Here are a few of the highlights below.

We dipped yummy things in the pink chocolate fountain, had fun jumping around in the bounce house. Also had fun on a flashlight walk in our church.. who knew some of those hallways could be so scary. As one of our girlys said " That was FUN! I screamed the whole way!" ha ha ha! We also played musical dots...yes there really was a dot theme for the night, not sure everyone got it though.

And last but not least the FABULOUS Pajama Fashion Show with our color commentary from the wonderful Cindy.

I think that we have some super stars in the making here. After we finished vamping for our friends we snuggled down into our sleeping bags, grabbed the popcorn and watched Kit Kittredge. Then some went to sleep...and what a noisy sleep it was. (smile) who knew little girls could be SO noisy when they sleep? I think the majority of us adults didn't get ANY sleep. We finished things off bright and early this AM with waffles and sausage. They were yummy. I decided I would be nice to my big an little friends and refrain from taking pictures. Some of us big people needed a REALLY large cup of coffee this morning to help us get going.

Thank you to Mrs. Susan and all her hard work helping get everything together and done. Andin to all the mommy's and daughters for coming out and helping us make this event so fun. As we said last night we do these kinds of events to help families realize the importance of "date nights" with their little ones and to associate special memories in the place where they get to learn about God's love for them every week. That God loves them and their laughter and joy as well as empathizes with thier tears and sorrow.

Parent Commitment Mother's Day 2009

Today is Mother's Day and is typically our largest parent commitment day of the year. Because of the flu scare we had a few less than we would have but parents still braved the "risk" and came on out with their little ones.

Here is a peek at what we do for this day. We have plans to do a few more things differently in the future to help parents understand why we do this. But for now this is the Milestone event that we want to share with you.

There is the arrival...

Some of us getting those last minute bites of breakfast muffin.

What the people in worship are looking over that they found in their worship guide.

What the parents are given when they walk in...

My list...with all the corrections and last name pronunciation assists :-)

Then the wait to walk in....

Peeking in and listening to see when we need to go in....

The choir is almost in place... so time to walk in..

What we see when we come onto the platform...people are welcoming each other.

About to start the presentation... I am up :-) whoopppss.

My lav was on mute. lol Sorry Heather.

Dr. Stephen praying for these sweet families and us as we journey with them in

this parenthood adventure.

Now to turn around and let the choir sing "May You Grow In His Likeness" to us.

The mommies always cry. I tear up too. Sweet song.

Waiting for the 2nd service Parent Commitment to start. Pure torture to an active 2 year old :-)

Parents waiting to go in. Trying hard to do those last minute clean ups and primping.

Barely miss the spit ups...but all is good :-)

And then we are all done and loving a special day that we had to share with our families and church family. Praying for Gods grace and guidance as we walk through each day in this parenting adventure.

Pajamamamarama

Pajamamamarama May 29-30: 6:30 PM-8 AM. Calling all Pre-K and Kindergarten little girls and their mommies or favorite female adult friend. We would love for you to come and join us for an overnight adventure giggling, feather boas, scrapbooking pillowcase designing fun and much much more. Cost for this night of fun is just $10 for you and your mommy.

So if you come remember to bring or wear your fabulous Pajamas, toothbrush, and sleeping bag. Oh and don't forget to bring your giggle box and LOTS of energy. Gonna be a fun night :-)

And theres a hint little hint in the picture to the right of what special treat we are going to have.

Swine Flu Update #2

LISD schools are back in session as of Thursday. How does this impact us at FBC? We still will not have Wednesday night activities but CDC will be back in session Friday. However there will be no fellowship night on Friday night. Sunday all will be back to normal.

Thanks for hanging in there with us as we have tried to follow guidelines from Denton County Health dept. and LISD closings.

By the way, the Kidz Praise choirs will perform Sunday night May 17th at 7 PM come on out and enjoy all their hard work.

Swine Flu impacts

Due to the Swine Flu epidemic and concerns we took the precautionary step to cancel our CDC program today and will follow the LISD example for next week as well. Which means we will not have CDC next week. However, we will be making the days up at the end of the CDC year. When these dates are available we will post them.

Am sad that we had to postpone Camp Momanmee. Susan and I were really excited about having a Piratey good time with our pre-k and kindergarten little boys and their mommies. But we have tentatively re-scheduled it for June 19th.

As far as Sundays we will still have all planned activities unless otherwise stated on our churches website http://www.fbclewisville.org/ So this means this Sunday is Children's Day. We will celebrate our children in the morning services and then celebrate WITH them during their musical Sunday night at 7 PM.

Wednesday evening activities for this week have been cancelled. We will resume AWANA on May 13th for our Cubbies Awards ceremony. Sparks and T and T will celebrate their awards night on the 20th.

One reminder to parents, please take every precaution to keep your sick kiddoes at home. Remember our well child policies: if your child has a fever of 100.4 or above please keep them home until they are fever free for 24 hours. Also remember to remind your children to wash their hands after going to the bathroom, sneezing, etc.

Our commitment to our families is to provide as clean a preschool and children's area as possible. This is not a new procedure. We strive to take every precaution necessary before you leave your child in our care to clean and sanitize surfaces that your child plays and sleeps on. This includes crawly mats, crib mattresses and rails, changing stations, toys, as well as tables, chairs, and other hard surfaces that they come into contact with.

Again, keep checking the church's website for updates about worship services and cancellations.