The Funky Monkeys!

What a great concert! 13 of us Mums took our little kids along, and they all loved it! Even the littlest ones! It was great to hear them singing about cool things like using your manners and exercising! Thanks heaps to Liz at Kiddywinks for inviting us - we had a blast!

If you want to check out more about The Funky Monkeys, you can search them on Facebook, or their website (where you can buy merchandise). www.thefunkymonkeys.co.nz

See you all next term for Coffee & Cake at the church! Have great holidays!!!!

Jewellery Night!

Wow - what a lot of fun we had! Rivka showed us how to create some designs that were simple enough for us to be able to do, yet very effective! Necklaces, earrings, & even bracelets were made, using a variety of shapes and combinations of beads. We had a scrummy supper of Apricot & Pinenut Cake and some weird but yummy Cats Tongues! We look forward to the next one!

Fathers Day Coffee & Cake

Today we celebrated our Dads! Fathers are such an important person in our children's lives, and we appreciate who our husbands are to our children (and in some cases, who our own Dads are to our children).

I read a quote yesterday that said "It is much easier to become a father than to BE one"... How true! Sometimes I really wonder how our men do it. They work a job, but still come home with energy to play with their little ones and tuck them in at night, and even have some left over for Mum. :o)

Fathers, we love you heaps and appreciate you so much! The kids spent some time decorating some biscuits to take home for their dads while the Mums got some time out to watch RAIN by Nooma. (If you missed it, you can catch it here). Happy Fathers Day, Dad!

Money Talk

Today we were taught a little more about budgeting and the long term benefits by Justin Lee, our friendly accountant.
If you missed it, or would like to have a re-read, here it is to download: Taming the Budget Beast.
In 2008, Justin went through exactly how to build a budget that actually works - if you would like to recap, here it is: Balancing the Books & A Sample Budget.

He touched on how important it is to know your end goals. If you're not sure how to calculate when your mortgage will be paid in full, check out these sites:
Sorted.org.nz
Kiwibank

Thanks again, Justin, for your help and as always, a little humour.

Swapsies Day / Meal Cook-up

Hi Ladies!

We had an awesome morning today! With our double dipper swapsie and cook-up day! Thank you to all of you who donated clothes/toys and food! We were able to cook a whole bunch of meals for the new mums of our group as well as for future new mums. These will also be available for other times when one of us may be in need of some help for some reason or another!
As you can tell from the pics, our crazy cooks in the kitchen had a blast, and the rest of us had a truck load of clothes to sift through to stock up for the year!
Thanks again all, its great to be able to help each other out in these ways :)


We also got to catch a glimpse of some of our lovely newborns! Did you know there have been 9 new babies from WonderMums this year, with Jo Pointon and Julia Hill still to have theirs also!! Congratulations to you all!

On a side note, please remember that next Tuesday 3rd August, we are meeting at Cafe Flavor, Manukau City Baptist Church, 9 Lambie Drive. They have an enclosed playground for kids. Hot drink and cake for $3. 10am!

A note of Thanks from Charm

Hi WonderMums,

It was such a blessing that your WonderMums group came to support my family. I want to share my thanks on the blogsite.

I have been to WonderMums since 2009. I always felt very lucky that I can join in with the activites in a mums group. I am a Christian and I believe God has the best plans for me and one is the opportunity to meet those lovely mums. I felt many mums, especially some leaders contributed time and put a lot of effort in to make the mums group very successful.
The other week, after my labour, I was having a very hard time because my older son Ethan got sick and he needed isolation from me and Asher, our new born baby. I have to look after Asher by myself as I cannot get any support from my relatives because they need to look after Ethan in another house. Praise GOD, God sent angels to help me. The WonderMums group helped me and delivered dinner to me for the first week I was home. I am very appreciative and I believe God sent those angels to me.

So a big thanks to those angels and lovely mums: Jo W, Jo P, Julia, Monique, Ruth and Pastor Lois.

May God Bless the WonderMums group and through their blessing may more mums understand God's power.

Kind Regards,
Charm

Welcome Baby Tessa!

After waiting for 2 weeks beyond her due date, Tessa Grace Cope made her safe arrival into our world! Well done Amy! Tessa was born on the 13th July at 6.50pm. She weighed in at 7lb 13oz. What a beautiful little girl! Congratulations, Amy & Steve! We look forward to cuddles at WM.