New Mom's Gifts

The ad said WE HAVE NEW MOMS GIFTS. Wow, ideas. I need ideas. That is exactly what I need and I need it by Friday. That is when the “Mom and Muffins” group at our church is going to meet. It is always such a fun yet tricky chore trying to figure out what theme we are going to do. Every month on a Friday morning about 13 wonderful, young mothers get together in our old church basement. It is a time when they share about all the drama that goes along with being a mom with little children. I think the part they like the most is that we provide child care. For a couple of hours they can sit around with other women to talk, laugh and enjoy other people who are in the same season of life.   Whether they realize it or not they are a support group for each other. They share the good and bad, fun and hard parts of being a mom.

 Now our group does have a purpose. We are not just all about having fun; we provide a very important service to the new mothers in our church. We put together a basket that has new mom’s gifts in it. Each lady brings a small gift. You know lotion, bath salts, magazines and maybe even some chocolate. Can’t forget that. It is my job to think of a theme for the new mom’s gift baskets. Some of our moms who we give a basket to are on their second or third child so we have to keep changing the theme of the baskets. We have been doing this in our church for about seven years.

 I am not sure who enjoys it the most. The ladies who receive the basket or the ones who put it together. At the end of our time on Friday morning we have muffins and coffee or tea. I love it. Watching the young moms relax and share is a new mom gift each time we meet with one another. So the next time you want to bless a new mom with a gift, creatively come together and bless the mom together.  You will find that the old saying that to give is better than to receive is actually true.

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