Little Women get hospitable and creative

During the month of March, yes, WAY back then, Little Women were able to come together once again and learn a new skill as well as enjoy some awesome Catholic fellowship.  

Our focus for the meeting was The Skill of Bringing Hospitality to Others.  I love that it was during the month of March, which is when the Catholic church celebrates The Feast of the Visitation (March 25)--on a side note, this feast remembers when the Angel Gabriel visits Mary and asks her to be the mother of God.  She says, "Yes," and we remember this moment on March 25, exactly nine months before Christmas.

So, our Holy Inspiration was the Visitation from Luke's gospel.  I had planned that the girls would learn how to decorate cookies, to be given away, and then we were going to enjoy a guest speaker, and visit a widow from church in the afternoon.  It was a great plan!

Here, Ms. Susie is showing the girls the proper way to hold their bag of icing.

 Bubbles has the hang grip of it.

 The idea was to teach them the basket weave pattern for making basket cookies.

 Bubbles is really good at this part, which can be difficult because of the spacing.

 After some practice, it was time for the actual cookie.

Not bad, right?

Here are the other girls and their soon to be masterpieces.

A few more techniques to try....

What to fill the baskets with????

Flowers are good.

The mess was incredible.  Does this still look like fun?

Finished products put us in the mood for Easter.

Proud, proud, proud, with good reason.

Here is our guest speaker, Sarah.  She was explaining her experience last summer with a program called People to People. She traveled abroad to Europe as an ambassador and was able to not only have the wonderful experience of travel and self knowledge, but she had opportunities to stay with families and meet other students and basically be hospitable and receive hospitality.  She loved it and would like to do it again some day.  

Here she is showing the girls some of her photos, which she compiled into a power point.

For the final part of the day, we hopped in the car and traveled down the road a bit to visit a lady from church, a precious lady I should say.  She welcomed us with open arms and the girls fell instantly in love with her as she had them go around and tell a little about themselves. It was a little over an hour that in the girls' words, "...went way too fast."  It was all agreed that we would have to do it again soon.

We brought our homemade sugar cookies, all freshly decorated, to Ms. Sloan, but to our surprise she had treats for us.  Delicious!  The popcorn was kettle corn.

Here are just some shots of the fun we had with the icing!

All in all it was a fabulous day!  April's meeting is about modesty in dress and we get to attempt sewing.  What kind of crazy things do I get us into?!