Thanks and Looking Ahead

Dear Families,

Thanks for attending Monday's meeting on a dark and stormy night.  It seemed just right to have nursery and parent & child families together--making the group the right size for sharing and discussion.  In addition to gatherings for our nursery families such as potlucks at the beach (which will rest for a bit in winter), I plan to gather us with interested parent & child families two or three times in the new year for various lecture and/or discussion topics.  If any in attendance have other thoughts or ideas or topic inspirations, please share them.

You are all invited to next Wednesday's Advent Study in the Butterfly Classroom at 7pm, November 17.  It will be led by other faculty members and help share a bit about the Advent season, ideas for home, and more.  With apologies, I will not be present; I will be at another meeting at the time.

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow at our lantern walk.  Please review a past blog post if you forget your invitation time.  First, it is a lovely event, and I want you to feel welcome.  It also has some unique scheduling needs to make it run smoothly, and I want to clarify or repeat 4 points.

1.  Please arrive as close to your actual start time as possible.  If you are early, your car's arrival may interrupt a quiet moment at the end of the previous group's lantern walk.

2.  Please park in the parking lot on the right once you turn into Old Pietila Rd.

3.  We will have lanterns for you.  Because I will be leading the walk, I will not hand them out.  Your child's name will be subtly inside the lit lantern to pick up for our walk.

4.  To make best use of the outdoor space (Relles Performance Hall), we are replacing our traditional puppet show with storytelling and a tableau. 

Remember that we are closed Thanksgiving Week.

We will have our nursery advent spiral on Thursday, December 16, at Relles Hall.  I am setting the time at 9am (I proposed 8:45am before) to make it easier to remember.  It will likely take about 30 minutes and can be a nice image for the children to take away before our three week break.

With warmth and light,

William Geoffrey Dolde