Building A Community of Friends

We had a fabulous first meeting. For those of you that attended, thank you for helping us to have a great kick-off! We hope that you all are as excited about this year as we are.

As a mom, do you ever feel like you are stranded on an island of chaos all by yourself? If so, you are certainly not alone (even though it may feel that way sometimes). Community is a vital part of our well-being, and friendships are the steam that keeps us chugging. But sometimes, the very thing that we need the most is often the thing that suffers the most when we become mothers, due to fatigue, lack of time, added responsibilities, and stress.

At our next meeting, we will learn how motherhood changes friendships and how we can build a community of friends with other mothers to help us, support us, encourage us, and celebrate with us. And for more insight into this exciting topic, you can read chapter 4 of the Life on Planet Mom book.

Also, as a group-wide service project, we will be collecting supplies for Clarity... Solutions for Women (formerly known as Heartland Crisis Pregnancy Center). The goal is to collect certain things at each meeting, which we will be assembling together closer to Christmas to create "bundles" for the new moms that come through the center. For this meeting, we are asking everyone who can to please bring one or more new or gently used receiving blankets. As an added incentive, for the care group that collects the most items towards our service project, we will be awarding each member with a $5 gift card to one of the new local coffee shops here in town.

So come join us, on Monday, September 28th from 9:00am - 11:00am in the Family Life Center of First Christian Church as we explore more of what Life on Planet Mom is all about. Breakfast is being provided by the Earth care group. You won't want to miss it! See you then!