You're welcome... I have been working to secure some amazing specialists to come in and do workshops with you all. We secured someone for January to do a workshop with you all about public speaking (which I am SO excited about) and I also got THE GOOSE DUNLAVEY to come in and do a workshop with you all about how to create an AMAZING community. SERIOUSLY, YES!!!! We are working out arrangements but looks like it may be as early as next Monday. So, if you'd like to attend and get GOOSE to look at your community (and give you feedback), make sure you're there. Because who wouldn't want the dude in these gifs to give you personalized feedback on your community? Ill let you all know an exact date and time as soon as we get it on the calendar. but they came back and suggested this upcoming Monday, so GET READY!!! @Cassandre Voltaire @Lucy Hutchings @Elizabeth Tappin @Mogene Christensen @Naomi Adek @Aike Vermeulen @Stephanie Noble

I had one of those moments this week where I was just standing in the kitchen staring at a packet of pasta like it was some sort of advanced maths equation, and the ridiculous part is nothing was actually wrong, it was just that my brain had tapped out long before my body realised it was supposed to stop too. People talk about burnout like it’s this big dramatic collapse but honestly, most of the time it’s the tiny shutdowns that give us away, the micro-freezes, the blank stares at random objects, the sudden “nope, I can’t” that slips out before you even know you’re saying it, and if you’re a mum of ND kids AND running a business, you’ll know exactly what I mean because capacity isn’t a weekly conversation or even a daily one, it’s every hour, every decision, every moment where you’re trying to hold everything together while your nervous system is whispering “absolutely not.” And I’m curious, genuinely, because we rarely talk about the early signs, the subtle ones before it becomes “too much,” before you hit the point where you’re crying over something stupid like the way the dishwasher was stacked or the fact someone breathed too loudly. What does burnout look like in you before it hits the red zone? The real stuff. The messy stuff. The micro-signals your body gives you that say: “I’m done but I’m still pretending I’m not.” I reckon whatever you share, someone is going to read it and think, “God, same.”

Normally we do advent calendars to help the kids with counting down to the Birth of Christ, but in reality, the only ones who were probably counting down to the birth was Mary and Joseph, as they travelled from one place to another. so this year we did a countdown chain!!! Remember cutting strips of paper to make a chain, why not do it for Christmas, and as each day goes by, you remove the tape - NO TOYS, NO SMALL PARTs and its REUSEABLE, and the kids can color, paint, decorate the chain!!!! The best part -ITS FREE and Creates memories!!! Credit goes to: The idea was taken from Highlights hello story!!