MOPS at Church at the Crossing: Emma Kalinowski

Classifieds

Baby Blankets. Josie's mom (Sharon Koepper) makes personalized baby blankets. Small: 18"x18" ($7.50) large: 42"x42" ($15-20). Sharon: 898-7766 or pskoepper@aol.com.
Handmade silver mother's bracelets. One child's name: $40. Two names: $45. Three or more names: $50. Contact Katie Moll at BRYANMOLL@comcast.net
NEED a private beauty consultation? call Melissa Henney at 826-0817 or 809-7745. Melissa is an Independent Senior Beauty Consultant for Mary Kay
Need gift ideas? Josie Bailey can help. She is an Independent Mary Kay Consultant. jrbaileyfamily@aol.com
Piano Lessons Contact Miranda at mirandagratner@hotmail.com

Recommended books

Barnhill, Julie; She’s Gonna Blow: Real Help for Moms dealing with Anger
Boundaries with Kids by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend.. Recommended by Barb Thorp, Preschool Division Leader at CATC
Boyd; Different Children, Different Needs
Burns, Jim; Confident Parenting
Chapman, Gary; 5 Love Languages of Kids
Clarkson, Clay; Heartfelt Discipline: The Gentle Art of Training and Guiding your Child
Cloud and Townsend; Raising Great Kids
Craker, Lorilee; The Wide-eyed Wonder Years
Dare to Discipline by James Dobson. Recommended by Barb Thorp, Preschool Division Leader at CATC.
Dobson, James; Bringing up Boys
Dobson, James; The Strong-Willed Child
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth. Recommended by Barb Thorp, Preschool Division Leader at CATC
Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy; Raising Your Spirited Child
Leman, Kevin; Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours
Mom's Devotional Bible recommended by Traci Noble
Phelan, Thomas; 1-2-3 Magic
Plowman, Ginger: "Don't Make Me Count to Three: A Mom's Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline." (Shepherd Press 2003)
Rosemond, John; Six-Point plan for raising happy, healthy children
Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp. Recommended by Barb Thorp, Preschool Division Leader at CATC
Six Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children by John Rosemond, recommended by Miranda Gratner
Smiley, Kendra; Be the Parent
Trent, John; Parenting From Your Strengths
Whelchel, Lisa; Creative Correction
White, Joe; Faith Training: Raising Kids Who Love the Lord

Favorite Quotes

"a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute." G K Chesterton
"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family.” Mother Teresa
"Oh, God, how I love Your law! All day long it is in my mind. Your commandment has made me wiser than my enemies, and it is always with me. How sweet are your words to my taste! They are sweeter than honey to my mouth." PSALM 119:103
"Our bedrooms point to the kind of space we can enjoy with God… a place where we can be vulnerable without fear… where we can rest and be refreshed… without shame… where forgiveness happens…" Karyl McGeath
"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world." Virgil A. Kraft
"You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life." That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. From The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
Mother is the name for God on the lips and in the hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray
ou don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
“Each of us has been uniquely chosen to be the mother of our children, and what we are doing truly does make a difference." Kelly Ulm
“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone?" G K Chesterton
“I celebrate all of you and the remarkable job you are doing.” Dawn Schuler
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:4
“Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal… It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell." , C.S. Lewis
“Renewing our sense of who we really are before God is the core of the Lenten experience. It is so easy to forget and thus we fall into habits of sin, ways of thinking and living that are contrary to God’s will” - Lawrence E. Mick
“The essence of Christ’s ministry was to display the worth of humanity, all stemming from God’s love for them” - Donald Miller
“The Lord is all knowing and everything he does is on purpose. He purposefully brought all of us together and that is awesome!” - Kelly Ulm
“To people with God, time is eternity in disguise” - Abraham Herschel
“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6
…You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. From The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren