Tomorrow will be fun...

I'm excited for tomorrow. Tomorrow is Saturday and two very fun things are taking place. The first one is this: I'm getting my new oven. Oh, I can hardly imagine the wonderful joy of cooking and baking without the annoying whirl in the background. I can't help but wonder, "will I cook as well without it?" My guess is yes.

Perhaps the thing I'm most excited about for tomorrow is that I'm having a sugar cookie decorating party! Not just any party, I might add. This party includes me and five little girls from our bible study. They range in age from three to nine and we are all very excited!

My heart is passionate about children's ministry. I love being around kids and sharing God's love with them. I just love it and I know they do too! Since our church doesn't have a children's ministry, I have to get my fill elsewhere. We didn't have any Christmas parties to go to this year (a little bummed about that ::grin:: ), so we had some weekend free time to fill in. I was so excited to find out that a few mom's from our bible study were willing to hand over their kids for a few hours!

I've made up little bags for each girl. They are white bags with the letter of their first name in a Christmas paper. I figure the little ones can color bags if they get bored. I just finished mixing up the sugar cookie batter and I'll cut out cookies and bake them tonight. When the girls get here in the morning, I'll have fresh cookies, three colors of icing and tons of sugary topping to decorate with! We're also having lunch together. The menu: PB&J, organic graham crackers, apples slices and carrots with a cookie, of course.

When it's time for them to go home, they each get four or five cookies to take with them and share with their parents. The rest of the cookies will be taken, by me, to our bible study Christmas party on Sunday. I thought the kids would love to see their decorated cookies on display for everyone to eat.

Oh my soul, I'm so excited! Please pray that the Lord would use me as I desire to bless and minister to these sweet little girls! I'll be sure to post a lot of cookie decorating fun pictures :)