Just like we are told on an airplane before a flight, before reaching out to help another we must have our own oxygen masks on. It is not taking anything away from anyone else when we take some time each day to catch our breath, recharge, restore and remember...(read more)
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.}
This month is INSANELY busy and we want to keep you updated on what is going on so you don’t miss out on anything, and so that we don’t miss out on YOU!! That is the purpose for this little note...:) And, we always love the chance to connect with all of you. We are working on MANY big things right now for all of you...some of them we can’t tell you about yet...but here are some that we can!
So here goes.....just 10 quick things...
1. We absolutely LOVE each and every one of you and we can not believe the growth of Brave Girls Club over the last few months...it is because of all of you and we are so happy that you see the vision of this wonderful community that we all get to be a part of...thank you for allowing us to be a part of it! We feel incredibly fortunate EVERY DAY!
2. Kathy and I just got back from Minneapolis and had a BLAST meeting everyone at The Creative Connection event, where I spoke on 3 panels and we taught 2 classes...and hugged SO MANY OF YOU and were overall inspired, wowed and delighted. We LOVE meeting you face to face and I loved the opportunities that I had to speak about Brave Girls Club and making your dreams come true! Here's the embarrassing part...we hardly took ANY photos...I had really good intentions and even took photos on the plane (yes, I am reading a spy novel...my favorite)...took photos of the limo driver they sent to fetch us....took a few pictures from the hotel....I got a few photos on my phone of the 70 beauties who came to our classes....they made such beautiful things!!! I got a few photos with a few of my old friends who gave AMAZING keynote speeches, Stacy Julian and Becky Higgins....you gotta see Becky's recap movie of the event HERE (you'll see tons of people you love and admire I bet and you will totally see why I love Beck yso much!).....anyway....once I have some more photos from the event photographer I will tell you more for sure because there is SO MUCH MORE TO TELL and so many more people to tell you about....we were just running and running and running....can't wait to see what the event photographer captured!!!!
3. October Brave Girl Camp is in 2 weeks and we are SO EXCITED and getting everything ready for the beauties who will be arriving in Idaho to be with us...we can’t wait and we wish you all could be here with us! We spend lots of time in the weeks before camp sewing, cooking, putting gifts together, wrapping, tying and packing....so that’s where we’ve been and where we will be for the next few weeks! Our October camps are our anniversary camps....we had our very first Brave Girl Camp in October of 2009! Click HERE to read what I wrote 2 years ago about our first camp. In some ways I can't believe it's already been 2 years...in others, it feels like we have been doing this all of our lives...in ALL WAYS it feels like this is EXACTLY where we are supposed to be.
4. Soul Restoration 2 is about to start up again....I am writing a blog post about how it changed my life, and continues to change my life. I BEG you to at least look into it...watch the videos...read the testimonials...we would sure LOVE to have you!!! I promise you that it will be one of the BEST THINGS you have ever done for yourself. Don’t forget we are doing a big tuition giveaway to 11 lucky ladies HERE!
5. We are working hard to get Life Art A La Carte up and going and...We have a huge surprise we are working on, something you have begged for over and over again that will be ready in time for Christmas gift giving...and we are sure you will want to give it to every woman you love. It will be beautiful, meaningful and collectable...can’t wait to tell you SOON! Save up some of your pennies, you will want to buy a bundle of them!
6. We are in shock and awe that THIS POST on our blog from a while back has been read over 100,000 times in the last month, and spread all over the world, so we hope you will take time to read it and pass it on if you would like to!!!
7. In the middle of all of this craziness, I am in the middle of a new & brave little undertaking, that comes as a result of keeping a promise to my husband, I have gotten so many letters about this after I posted it on my personal blog....you might want to read about it HERE...I can’t wait to tell you all about it when it is over.
8. Kathy rocks!!!!!!! (I am writing this post so I get to say that....) There is so much that goes on behind the scenes that you might not ever see...that gets done with such tremendous love and care. (and hours and hours of time) We have both been so busy this month and she just takes the reins and goes. She is the glue that holds this place together...her calm, organized, confident and brave soul is a gift. She is a tremendous leader. I could never do any of this without her as my partner. We can't wait to share a WHOLE LOT OF FUN AND HAPPINESS AND GIFTS with you in October for our big 2 year anniversary party online!
9. I will be writing the rest of the FACEBOOK ADDICTION posts very soon. You can catch up on them HERE I have so much more to tell you about it and with the hundreds of letters I have gotten, I promise I will tell you everything I learned and give you lots of tips to overcome some of the stuff I have overcome because of my Facebook Detox.
10. I just want to share something I am SO HAPPY ABOUT...a dream come true. Our family moved last month to a temporary home to wait for the home to be ready that we were wishing for...WE ARE MOVING INTO IT right after BGC.....so that’s where I have been...moving, moving, moving....moving forward!......we are settling down and can’t wait to tell you all about the beautiful, magical secret forest that we are moving to just in time for my 40th birthday that is going to be a HUGE part of the future of Brave Girls Club. AMAZING THINGS COMING UP.....
will be back soon!!
Sending you all SO MUCH LOVE!
xoxo
melody
Look around at what exists in your life right now, beautiful friend. Look at the events that had to be orchestrated to get you to exactly where you are, doing exactly what you are doing, with exactly who you are with, learning exactly what you are learning and experiencing exactly what you are experiencing.
Look at all of this and know that it was meant just for you. If it feels like you are in a place that you would rather not be at this time, just know that you are in the middle....on the way from here to there.....and that you will get through it...that it will last exactly as long as it's supposed to last and teach you exactly what you are meant to learn. And later, you will see how this time was one of your very greatest teachers...(read more)
xoxo
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.}
Please don't get caught up in thinking, beautiful girl, that your dreams, hopes and ambitions don't matter, that your ideas are dumb or unattainable. Please remember that pretty much everything you put to use on a daily basis came about because someone had an idea and followed through on it. What if they hadn't have followed through on it? What if they had been too afraid? THINK OF ALL OF THE THINGS that we would all be missing out on right now if the ideas of others never had a chance to be born....(read more)
Let your ideas be born, friend.
If it feels like it's time, it probably is.
xoxo
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.}
The only way to get to the truth is to listen to your heart, to pay very close attention to your gut. It is YOUR truth. And that does not mean it is the same truth for someone else's life. We all have a different journey. When something is right and true, it feels peaceful. Things that are right and true are not always the answers that we are hoping for. They are not always the easiest answers. But they always always always bring us to a place of peace.
Please go where the peace is, beautiful friend -- always always always...(more)
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.
Please don't steal away the beauty of this time in your life by wishing you still looked like a kid, phenomenal you. We all get to take turns being kids, being teenagers, being young adults. And then we get a turn at every stage of beautiful, wise, phenomenal womanhood. When we embrace the beauty of every stage in life, we can be the most beautiful creature that ever walked the earth. This is what we were created to be....
Who you are today is exactly right. (more)
xoxo
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.
Here's the super cute skirt my husband made me, and the rest of my uniform that I obediently wore. By the end of the weekend...I very very very proudly wore it.
Never, ever ever ever ever, in ten trillion years did I think this would happen to me. Scouting is my husband's humongous passion in the world, and he spends countless hours every week volunteering to teach boys the values that scouting is based on. Now he teaches and trains the leaders who teach the scouts.
My husband LOVES his country. He loves the flag, he loves the constitution, he loves everything that America stands for...I always thought he should have been in the military...but I am telling you he spends most of his days serving the people of his country and community in other ways...the biggest is through his service to The Boy Scouts of America.
After he attended 7 Brave Girl Camps without complaint......I finally agreed to something that he's been begging me to do for nearly 2 years......go to one of his huge leadership retreats in the mountains....it's an elaborate 14-hour a day training called WOODBADGE. My husband is one of the incredible trainers who teaches Boy Scout leaders how to teach life skills and character traits and patriotism and duty to God and country. Here's a picture that I snapped of him giving one of his presentations...
So....even though I have forever thought these guys were AWESOME, GOOD, TRUE, and incredible pure hearted and service minded......I have never understood why the heck they are all so passionate about volunteering for the Boy Scouts of America.
Well....this was the year that I had to keep my promise. So I just got back from my first week. I went and I decided that I would go check it out......and do all of the assignments and exercises and be supportive and really try to understand what he does and why.....so I did.
What I didn't know was how it would impact me. I will tell your more about this week, and all that we did later (because I still have to go back for another whole weekend!).....
BUT.....I wanted to tell you right now that I have women asking me EVERY time they come to camp, and meet my husband and my son and my dad, ... how it is that my son and my husband are such wonderful men.
What I know for sure is that the things that my husband (and my dad!, and my son...) has learned in his involvement with BSA from the time he was 7 years old have truly made a TREMENDOUS impact on the incredible, skilled, prepared, service oriented, brave man that he is...and now he's going on to teach those things to our 3 incredible sons......and he's tried and tried to get me involved and to understand it all..and I have been supportive........but now I'M ALL IN, BABY.
I will tell you so much more later. :)
But if you have a boy and you want him to learn all that is good and true in the world, and learn every life skill imaginable...I would encourage you to look up a Boy Scout troop in your area. This is an absolutely phenomenal and incredible program and I will be a very dedicated Scout Mom forever more......and I still have 3 more days of Woodbadge training! I can't wait :)
Just in case anyone knows Woodbadge lingo...I am a Bobwhite (a little bird!!!!!!) and I LOVE MY PATROL!!! You can see me holding my patrol flag in the first picture.
I can't believe I am talking this weird language that my husband talks all the time. I can't believe I am so excited about doing this with him...but I am! It will be super fun to do this with my 10&11 year old boys....a whole new phase in my life and something wonderful to do with my extra time each week now that I am not "eating cool-whip"
Anyway...more to come...just wanted to show you my uniform...because I promised I would. :)
This week I'm headed to Minneapolis for The Creative Connection...which I am SO EXCITED ABOUT!!!!
.....and I will be writing much more about my Facebook Addiction 90 day detox soon too!!!
I LOVE YA ALL!!
melody
It is not bad to preserve all that is good and true and productive about yourself for things that matter most. You are not selfish or mean or cowardly. There is only one of you and there are only 24 hours in a day. If we don't set boundaries, the best of us gets taken up quickly...(more)
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.
When we listen to every single voice around us, life can get incredibly confusing. Sometimes we spend years and years ONLY listening to the voices around us and never get quiet enough to hear our own truth. Sometimes we want to get quiet, but the other voices are SO LOUD that the only thing left to do is walk to a quiet place for a while....(more)
xoxo
{This is an excerpt from The Brave Girls Club “a little birdie told me – daily truth”. Click to read this entire truth or to subscribe to receive Daily Truths in your email inbox.
There will be no Facebook Friday for me this week...because I am currently here..........
and tomorow morning I will be in a remote place, doing something that I absolutely, positively never, ever would have thought I would be doing.........but, it's all for love.....and believe me, I will tell you all about it when I get back.
My husband has supported me in EVERYTHING I have ever wanted to do.....many times being THE PERSON to make it happen for me. This weekend......I am doing it for him.
And...for the occassion, he actually crafted a perfectly tailored to my measurements skirt for me to wear...because where I am going you have to wear a uniform.....and I wanted to wear something cuter than the uniform.....so he found the EXACT fabric, and spent an entire day with his mom sewing a skirt for me...many pictures to come with me wearing my full uniform...next to him wearing his. :) Uniforms are SO NOT MY THING....in fact, I will go to the ends of the earth to find NONUNIFORM, UNUNIFORM....etc....but this means the world to my husband so here I go......6am tomorrow...wish me luck...
I have to admit...the photos below make me get all teary-eyed...I can't wait to tell you what this is all about when I get back. :)
Ok...here's the before picture.....what I was wearing this morning at the hotel....JUST WAIT til you see the after picture!!!!
Sorry I won't be able to join y'all for Facebook Friday....maybe I will make up for it on Monday or something......
sending so much love, and hoping you are out really LIVING YOUR LIFE!!!
xoxo
melody
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