The Amazing Effects of Prayer

I've been searching for MONTHS to find a Catholic Mommies group in my area. Since I couldn't find anything, I decided to start one on my own. In November, I finally approached the pastor of my parish church. It took until January, but we got it started. We've already had many bumps in the road, and many trials, but I KNOW that God wants me to do this.

Anyways, the first week, we had one mom show up. I wasn't as prepared as I should have been for that meeting, and I hope that didn't deter her (the kids had just been recovering from bronchitis, croup and an ear infection). She seemed into it, but I haven't seen her since. Then, the second week, an Aunt, who babysits her nephew came. I was a little better prepared, with a bible story and a 10 Commandments project, but note to everyone...CHECK THAT YOUR GLUE STICKS ARE NOT DRIED OUT before you bring them to a function where you will be glueing!

Week 3, NO ONE else showed up. But, I was prepared and my kids and I did the activity we had planned. I didn't read them the story again, as I had read it to them earlier in the week since it was "A" week. We read Tomie dePaola's Angels, Angels Everywhere. On Little Saints group day, we did the "A" is for Angels activity from Catholic Icing. The kids went a little crazy with the stickers, but they sure do love stickers. (I had to zoom in on the actual artwork because their names were written in the corners.)

Junior's...

 Princess'



Anyways, week 4 (yesterday). Again, NO ONE shows up! Well, (so, I had this REALLY long post written and it didn't save, so I'll have to just use a shortened one!)

So, week 4. NO ONE showed up. The Feast of St. Blaise was the day before, so I read the story of St. Blaise to the kids and had them color a picture of him from Waltzing Matilda.

My New Year's Resolution was/is to go to Mass one day a week in addition to Sundays. And of course on all the Holy Days and special Feast Days. St. Blaise's Feast day was on Thursday. My kids were EXTREMELY well behaved! Anyways, as I'm packing up the diaper bag to leave, a man comes over and hands me something and says "this is for your Mommy group". I said "Thank you! Thank you so much!" I didn't have time to look at it just that second, and I don't know if I would even know the man if I saw him again. Anyways, when I got to the car, I looked and it was a $100 bill! Now, I have been praying about starting a Meetup.com group, but just haven't had the funds. God had definitely heard and answered my prayers! This man was a vessel for God. I now am able to start a meetup group (which will hopefully bring in more mommies) as well as have leftover funds for supplies, snacks, and anything else).

GOD LISTENS!

Happy Saint Brigid's Feast Day

(Yes, I know it was actually yesterday, but naptime is just about the ONLY time I can ever get on here.) :)

For St. Brigid's Feast, we read St. Brigid's Cloak by Bryce Millligan, as well as a short story in Twenty Tales of Irish Saints.

We also made St. Brigid's Oaten Bread from Catholic Cuisine...

  

 

and colored a St. Brigid coloring page from Waltzing Matilda...

We were going to make this St. Brigid's Cross from Family Fun (thanks for sharing Catholic Icing!), but we just ran out of time. We may still make it today.

Overall, we had a WONDERFUL fun-filled day!

My Family Cont'd

Another project from our My Family Unit from our Little Saints preschool program. The kids loved using pictures of themselves to make a photo montage of our family.

A Unit/My Family Week 2

Since we got soooo busy last week, we ended up having to turn our "A" Unit into a 2 week unit (which I really ended up liking, so we will probably do the same with all the following units). We started the week making drawings of "My Family". Junior's is more of an "abstract" piece. ;-)

For this being Princess' first time actually drawing "people", I'd say she did a REALLY great job!

 Then we continued our Catechism lesson for the week: Love Others as God Sees You. The kids really enjoy making projects where they get to use glue. This is our Window to our heart. There is a "picture" of God the Father in the little flaps. You can REALLY see how hard Junior is concentrating on opening that glue stick:

Princess is working on letter formation every chance we get by tracing everything possible. I've been writing a LOT of stuff in pencil for her to trace lately. 

I think this picture was taken right after I found Junior sneaking bites of a chocolate chip cookie in the kitchen. Can you tell??

I'm working really hard on letting the kids work be "not perfect". It was quite hard for me to NOT fix this glue job. LOL. 

Better late than never...

With the beginning of our schooling for this year, our first Unit is on Family.

We weren't able to make it to the library due to the big kids being sick, so we weren't able to do our read aloud, but we did get to work on our unit. The kids colored "families" to use to tell a story (we didn't get to that part yet, but plan to this week).

Coloring their "families" (Little Saints Preschool Program)



 

 Princess has REALLY been working hard on staying in the lines when she's coloring. She's getting much better!

"Never too Small" from Who Am I? Children's Catechism Series

 The yellow fingerpaint didn't work out too well on the dark paper. Next time I think I'll use a lighter color for the background. :)

 Princess' finished project (she traced the wording).