Merry Mary Crafts

Happy Feast of the Assumption!

Yes, Lord! VBS 2012

This year our parish didn't host a Vacation Bible School (we'd gone every summer since Katie's birth!) and I was totally bummed.  It didn't work out on our calendar to go elsewhere and the closest parish ended up not doing theirs either. :-(  So, my dear friend Rachael and I decided to do our own.  We took inspiration from other mothers who've done the same and from our years in Totus Tuus and thus VBS 2012 Yes, Lord!

Our week having preschool age children in mind was three mornings of Vacation Bible School rather than the whole week/day long.  We decided to focus on three Old Testament Bible Stories (Noah, Moses, David) and three coinciding mysteries of the Rosary (the first three Joyful Mysteries).  The day consisted of songs, prayer, lessons about each story and mystery, craft, snack and game.  It was enough for our crowd (5 yr. old, 4 yr. old, and two 2 yr. olds, plus a newborn and mom and a pregnant mom) who had occasional meltdowns or moments of being uncooperative (no, I didn't have the meltdown!).  The kids however had a BLAST!  And there were moments of great joy for us moms, too in seeing cooperation, learning and excitement about our faith!

We didn't take many pictures but here are a few off of my phone to share.  I wish we could have had video of the game station- what a hoot!  Especially the Crossing of the Red Sea!  I think we crossed it at least a dozen times before it got old and they wanted to play it again the next day!  If you're interested in our outline or anything like that I'd be happy to share.  Nothing too time consuming!

The stage was set!  Day one- Noah

Snack Time!

The big girls showing off their work!

Crafts!

Our smallest and cutest helper!

The attendees sporting their VBS 2012 T-shirts and smiles.

Rosary Praying Template

I mentioned this to a few people and couldn't figure out a way to post it to facebook (yet) with my SLOW Internet.  Maybe once I can get out of the house again (read- it is winter and we have the plague ;-))  So hopefully this will work for now!  Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, pray for us!

May Crowning in June

So, I know we're a month behind but it just didn't work out for us to gather for our May crowning this May.  Seemed like with the skipping of spring the winter sickness just hung around longer and so week after week we postponed our festivities so that all of our little mom's group could join in the fun. 

What you don't see in this post procession and crowning picture of the kids is my

 3 yr old's epic meltdown during the whole thing.  I think Rachael got some of it on video.  Its worth watching if it gets posted- epic. 

 We ended up crowning Mary on the feast of the Sacred Heart so we included that statue, too.

The Mom's from Mom's Group.  I'm looking tall in this self portrait.

Carolyn and I matched- we had to take a picture of that cuteness.