March President's Letter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

Spring is in the air, I can feel it! Come on spring!

We had a great Morning Coffee at my house last week. It was fun to catch up with old friends and get to know new friends: D and her son Z joined us for their first MOMS Club event. It was also a first for A's tiny bundle of love – M. It was so fun to see a newborn; I forget how tiny they are.  

Speaking of bundles of joy, we want to congratulate K S on the birth of her baby girl in February. The little one’s name is C and her pictures are beautiful.

In the way of Club business, the annual regional MOMS Club conference and luncheon is coming up. I don’t know that anyone from our chapter has ever attended, but if you are interested all are welcome to participate. I have more information if you are interested in going.

SAVE THE DATE! Our party committee has been putting together a Spring Fling Party. We’re holding it in April in hopes for the best outdoor weather.

AO is still putting together a MOMS Club cookbook. It’s not too late to send her your most awesome recipes to share with everyone. Thank you A.

We’d love to have you host Morning Coffee for March. Please let me know if you are able to open your home to us.

Finally, please start considering how you’d like to volunteer in our club next year. New leadership takes over in June.

Happy February,

–Stephanie

February President's Letter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

We’ve got one major snowstorm under our belts, and I don’t know about you but I’m hoping it’s the only one! Many thanks to CZ, our Mom’s Night Out committee chair, for organizing the Women’s Self Defense class. The turnout was great and the class was excellent on all accounts. We’re grateful as well to AC for hosting our January morning coffee. The kids had a great time visiting, and the moms enjoyed the conversation.

Playgroups are in full swing, many thanks to our playgroup gurus for their coordinating efforts. Thank you for putting the events on the Facebook page, this allows newer members to find their playgroups more easily.

Speaking of new members, we have two new Moms to welcome this month: D and J. D and her husband C have a two year old son Z. They live at DE, so please reach out to welcome them. We also want to welcome J and her husband J with their son L who is 11 months old. They live at WD. Please invite them to playgroups and introduce yourself.

We also want to congratulate AJ on the birth of her baby girl M. Hooray! Thank you to those who volunteered to take a meal to the family.

This month AO is kicking off a great MOMS Club project: a cookbook! I’m super excited to see everyone’s tried & true favorite dishes. I know you ladies are awesome cooks so share your secrets! Please get recipes turned in to A by Feburary 26^th so she can put together the formatting for the book. Thank you A.

Morning Coffee for February will be on the 25^th at my house. If you would like to host an activity, craft, play date, or meet up please feel free to add it to our Facebook calendar and email it to the group.

Also, in the near future we’ll be looking to switch up our board and committee chairs. Please start considering how you’d like to volunteer in our club next year.

Happy February,

–Stephanie

January President's Letter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

Happy New Year! We hope you have all enjoyed the holiday season with your family and friends. We enjoyed several events with our MOMS Club in December. The holiday party was a great success – thanks to K and J. A hosted a well-attended and enjoyed MNO. And several Moms and kids had fun decorating gingerbread houses for an afternoon playdate at my home.

With the New Year comes the cold long part of winter! I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping to lean on my MOMS Club friends to help me through it. We hope to see you at many playgroups, activities, and MNOs to get out and socialize. Please feel free to add events on our FB calendar and to request that they are emailed out as well.

We have a great MNO coming up at the end of this month. C has arranged a women’s self-defense class, so please review the details and RSVP. Thanks C for organizing that!

Best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful 2016.

–Stephanie

December Newsletter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year again and a great time to be a Mother. It is so fun to celebrate all the excitement of the holidays with little ones (and not so little ones!) in the house.  

First things first, we’d like to welcome two new members: TT and KQ. Welcome! T and her husband C and their 11 month old daughter, P, live on BL in Downingtown. K and her husband K and their two sons L and A live on C Drive. Please reach out and welcome them into our club.

November was a pretty quiet month on the MOMS Club front. We had a fun outing to see the Juggling Hoffmans at the Exton Square Mall. Several of us also enjoyed a successful morning coffee at my home. We discussed MNOs and club activities. One main point we’d like to share is this: our Uwchlan Hills MOMS Club is run solely off of your volunteering your time, your home, and your friendship. Please jump in, post events, activities, host playgroups, and etc.

We have several activities to look forward to this month. The MOMS Club Holiday party will be held on December 15^th so be on the lookout for the Facebook event. We’re also meeting up for breakfast and our monthly club meeting “Morning Coffee” at a recommended spot in Downingtown. Bring the kids – yes, they’ll be loud and make a mess, but we’ll all be there together for moral support and fun! Also, I’m offering a gingerbread house decorating activity; this activity will be limited to 8 kids. A is hosting a Moms Night In – thank you! This should be a great evening, so come join us. C already has our January MNO on the calendar – be sure to RSVP for this event. It is a women’s self-defense class; the last time our club did this activity it was a hit (hahaha). I didn’t attend, but I wished I had because I heard about it for weeks!

As always, thanks for your friendship & fun. Join us for any activities you can and have a wonderful holiday season!

Happy Holidays–Stephanie

November Newsletter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

 November is here! I hope you and your little ones enjoyed a safe and delightful Halloween. We saw some seriously cute costumes at our MOMS Club annual Trunk-or-Treat. It was a terrific, albeit windy, activity. Many thanks to K and J for organizing a great get-together.

This month we had another successful Alex’s Lemonade Stand. S S did a fantastic job heading this up for us. Thank you to the many club members who donated their time and resources to the effort. We had a great turnout and wonderful support from Uwchlan Hills Elementary School. It was great to celebrate our 10^th Alex’s Lemonade Stand hosted by former MOMS Club member J H. What a great history for our club. J even displayed some scrapbooks of our club over the years, some of those old pictures were positively classic.

For November we have our monthly club meeting at my house on November 19^th at 10am. We also have an activity at the mall to see the Juggling Hoffmans. If there are other events that you’d like to squeeze into this busy time of year, please add them to the calendar and we’ll join you.

Have a wonderful November! –Stephanie

October President's Letter

Hello MOMS Club® of Uwchlan Hills PA, 

Happy Fall to you and your family. It was great to see so many of you at our Fall Kick Off party last week. J and K did a fantastic job putting it together and we’re grateful for their efforts. The pinecone birdfeeders were super cute; I know the birds in my backyard are enjoying them. Thank you to C for putting together the Mom’s Night Out at Painting with A Twist. You ladies did some good work! Playgroups have been up and running. Our playgroup gurus have been putting playgroup meet ups on the Facebook calendar. This is especially helpful to new members, so thank you.

S was able to help the preschool playgroup host an activity this month: mini golf at Rossi. We had a great outing on a beautiful day and we were happy to be joined by M and M.

Earlier this week we had a Morning Coffee hosted by R; we appreciate her willingness to open her home to the group. At our monthly club meeting, aka morning coffee, we discussed some club business. First, S has things moving along for our yearly charity event: Alex’s Lemonade Stand. She’s doing a terrific job heading this up. J has been so gracious to host this event for the last TEN YEARS! So a big thanks to her. Please support our club’s charitable efforts by signing up to bring something, to put up signs, to help run the stand, or to help in some other way.

We also discussed a few other topics: having speakers come to our morning coffee meetings, using our Facebook page to list children’s items for sale, whether we continue to schedule activities outside of playgroups, and using a survey to meet your needs/interests better. I will create a survey later this month to gauge your interest in these topics, so be looking for that.

Our club has been growing, we have many new members. Please reach out to them and invite them to attend activities. Our newest member is A C. She and her husband S have three children: K, J, and P. They’ve already attended several activities and we’ve enjoyed getting to know her – welcome to the MOMS Club!

One last note, we will be starting a “Halloween Ghost” within the club this month. When you are “Booed” you can go to this website http://beenbooed.com/ to carry on the fun tradition to other families. Please do your best to spread our Phantom so it can reach through all of the club in the month of October. Happy Fall & Happy Halloween.-Stephanie

September President's Newsletter

Happy September to our MOM Club® of Uwchlan Hills, PA,

With summer vacations completed and school back in session, I think we’re all settling back into a routine. That includes our MOMS Club routines as well. Playgroups have been organized and are setting up their schedules. I have asked that each playgroup has a main point of contact – a playgroup guru J. Thank you to A, S, C, and S for volunteering to head up these positions. To increase attendance at other activities, our activities chair, L, will be asking each playgroup to come up with an activity that they would like to “host.” Each playgroup will be assigned a month to host, and the playgroup will decide on the type of activity, the time, and the location. The guru will then pass the information onto L who will put it on the calendar. We’re hoping that this will help L as she tries to accommodate the interest and availability of our club members.

Our Mom’s Night Out Chair, C, is working hard to put together events that interest you as well. It was suggested that these activities be planned as early as possible so that child care arrangements can be made well in advance. We’ll be working on putting MNO events on the calendar. C is currently putting together a great looking MNO for later this month at Painting with a Twist. It should be a memorable activity, so watch for details.

The party committee is hard at work as well. I’ve asked J and K to organize a Fall Kick Off Party for us. This event will be held outside at a park later this month. This will be a great time to reconnect after the summer, make a first appearance if you are new, and remember names & faces.  Next month is a MOMS Club favorite: the Trunk or Treat, so be looking forward to that.

We wanted to welcome our new members. Our newest members are L and C. L and her husband R have three children: G age 8, R age 4, and W age 3. They are in the S neighborhood. C and her husband C live on N. They have two kids: M age 2 and T age 1. We’re excited to see them at upcoming activities – so reach out and welcome them.

I really enjoy our club – it is fun to get to know so many wonderful people in our community. We all join for the same reasons: to make friends with other adults, to make friends for our kids, and to get to know people in our neighborhoods and communities. As with anything, you will get out of MOMS Club what you put in. So join us when you can and let’s have some fun!             -Stephanie