2025-2025 schedule for Mornings with Mommy
MEDIA RELEASE__Mornings with Mommy is a fun and easy way for you to enjoy activities with your infant through kindergarten age children (ages 0-6 years) and meet other moms. Dads, Grandmas, Grandpas, and Nannies are welcome, too!
These educational play-dates will begin on September 15 and 16 and continue on the first and third Monday and Tuesday of each month from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera. A second session on Monday is from 11:00-12:00 a.m.
Advance registration is required online at www.tlcjenera.org or by calling 262-391-7994. The cost is $5 per family (not per child) per session. Payment may be by cash or check. If a session is full, please choose another session or sign up on the waiting list.
There will be age-appropriate activities for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. Moms can mingle with each other and enjoy activities with their children.
Each session will have its own theme, but the basic structure will be consistent. It will begin with a devotion, language and literacy activities (stories, flannel board and songs). There will be arts and crafts, sensory activities, gross and fine motor skills and an infant area.
Moms and children may explore these activities at their own pace. At the end of the session, a snack will be served. You may enjoy it at Mornings with Mommy or take it to go for the ride home.
The schedule of themes and dates are:
September 15 or 16: At the Farm
October 6 or 7: Things that Go
October 20 or 21: Raccoons, S'mores, and Camping
November 3 or 4: Music and Instruments
November 17 or 18: Fall Harvest Time
December 1 or 2: Colors and Shapes
December 15 or 16: Happy Birthday Jesus Party
January 5 or 6: Winter Days: Snowflakes, Hats and Mittens
January 19 or 20: Moons, Stars and Night-Time
February 2 or 3: Red, Hearts and Valentine's Day
February 16 or 17: Frogs, Ducks and Pond Animals
March 2 or 3: Bugs, Worms and Little Things
March 16 or 17: Eggs and Easter-Jesus is Risen!
April 6 or 7: Dinosaurs
April 20 or 21: Fun with Food
May 4 or 5: Flowers, Birds, and Mother’s Day
May 18 or 19: Under the Sea
Stories Posted This Week
Friday, October 16, 2026
- Production offers a modern take on the story of St. Clare of Assisi
- Bluffton volleyball edged in 5 by Van Buren
- Pirate girls soccer tie O-G
- October 16 Bluffton Schools athletics lineup, streaming
- Bluffton Council recap: Officers honored for 25 years of service
- Bluffton Clean Up teams up with Troop 3256 Cub Scouts
- Ada FFA: Feeding the Farmers
- Nov. 7 Fall Community Day at Bluffton University
- Quarry Farm Nature Preserve news for Fall 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
- DeWine announces $200M Rural Health Transformation program award
- Herb program with Marge Lafollette, Oct. 15
- Prairie seeding activity at Bluffton University, October 24
- Food for thought: Choline for the brain
- Results for 5K on October 2, Bluffton University Homecoming event
- 15 minutes with Sherry Miller, senior center activities coordinator
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 14
- CANCELLED Main St. closure on October 15
- Frederick Clyde Warren founded True-2-Form Plastics
- Pirate boys soccer beats Wapak in regular season finale
- Pirate girls soccer defeats Liberty Center
- Mennonite pastor to explore ‘good news’ in creation
- Bluffton University earns recognition in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Obituary for Deborah "Debbie" Welch, 74
- Spirits and exorcism presentation during University Spiritual Life Week Forum
- Dodging bullets: Bluffton oral history 90+ years after Dillinger robbery
- Nora Matthews named BHS Student of the Month for September 2026
- ICAPP analysis on charter status and local autonomy
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 13
- Bluffton area Women in Business meeting October 15
- Leo club glasses collection
- Night at the (Swiss Historical) Museum, October 24
- Woodcarving ornament workshop at Swiss Heritage Center
- Barefoot nature walks at the Nature Preserve
- Pirate volleyball seeded 4th
- Beavers sports roundup, October 6-11
- Bluffton leaf pickup scheduled for last week of October
- Pirate boys soccer shuts out Bellefontaine
- Watch an after school movie at the Bluffton Public Library
- Dunlap awarded OSBA humanitarian award