I hope everyone had a wonderful and filling Thanksgiving! I had two dinners and now I am stuffed like a turkey! I also did tons of shopping and now I am ready to wrap it all up.
This week at our monthly meeting on Thursday night, we will do just that...bring your gift wrap and toys and wrap up your kiddos treats. We are also having a gag-gift White Elephant Exchange so bring a gift wrapped silly present to give away...anything laying around the house will do. This is our Mommy Holiday Party so come and enjoy the fun with your friends and take some time to yourself! The club is providing pizza but we can use some snacks to share so look for the hospitality sign up sheet and help out if you haven't already this year. There will also be a cookie exchange so bring 3 dozen cookies if you want to participate. The idea is for you to go home with 3 dozen different cookies to give as gifts or take to parties for the holiday season. In other words, we are going to have some fun and get things done that will make our holiday season less stressful and more fun!
Speaking of getting things done, we will also be working on the Kid's Garage Sale and Holiday Bazaar after the meeting. We will make signs and hand out stickers for you to mark your donated items. I will have the van to transport some donated items if you want to bring them to the meeting and mark them there. I would prefer any items for donation be dropped off between 7 and 9 on Friday night or on Saturday morning between 9 and 10 at Westover Club. This way things don't have to be transported two or three times.
Please dig down deep in the kiddos toy boxes and find the things that can go. This is a great opportunity for the club to make money and for you to clear out some space for the new items soon to come your way. We are looking for anything that has to do with baby, kiddo or mama. Things like name books, clothes, toys, maternity items and more. If you have a big ticket item like the bassinet I am going to sell, you can mark it with a hot pink sticker and let us know that you would like to split the profit with the club. You can also choose to mark the item with a green sticker and let us know that you would like to do a 75%-25% split with the club as well. All children's clothing, books and such will have a standard price of $1 unless otherwise marked by you. The toys and games or any other item should be marked with a white dot and the price of your choosing to be donated to the club. For example, a puzzle may be marked $1 or a train set $10. What ever you feel is reasonable or that you would ask at a garage sale yourself. After 7 on Friday at Westover, there will be designated areas for each item type and we ask that you bring your item in then (if possible), mark it and place it in the area.
The Bazaar and Garage Sale itself is going to be tons of fun! We have many crafty mamas who are bringing great and unique gift items to sell. There will be a bake sale, bouncy house, petting zoo, tennis demo, karate demo and much more. The club has a nice playground for the kiddos too so come have some fun and bring your family and friends.
Please invite your friends and family to the Bazaar as well. We have tons of advertising going out but we can use all the help we can get. This is our one big fundraiser so donated items and people are a must to make money. Send out a note on your FB page or just send an email to any friends with small kiddos. They can donate items as well. Every thing helps!
There are lots of other fun events this December as well. Please make sure to take a look at the FB page and all the events! We are having a Breakfast with Santa again so dress in PJ's and bring a wrapped gift to sneak into Santa's bag with your kiddos name on it. Santa will make an appearance, take pics and pass out gifts to all the children whose mommies bring one for him to give. We had tons of fun last year and I am sure this year will be great too!
Happy Holiday's Everyone~
Danor Padden
President NAMC
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