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@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright all I know this is alot of announcements but gotta get them in while the forum is up. The time has FLOWN by but you can officially read the last few chapters of the book! Now I know some folks are behind and such so I usually give two weeks at the end for yall to finish so you have until the 27th. Be on the lookout for the last few sets of questions and also an interest pole for NNCs next read. I know its been hard with the tech difficulties but if you have fun please join us for the next one. A questionaire will be going up in the next few weeks, it is important you answer it if yall want that shiny handmade badge I award for finishing bo0ks here. Thanks again yall its been fun!

A summer baby here through and though! I swear I don’t reduce my own body heat and my extremities are always cold…so give me sunshine, a good book and a rock to lay out on like a lizard and I’m in bliss. (Oh and sunscreen so my ghost like skin doesn’t turn tomato red 🤣)

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let y'all know, due to the site being worked on, difficulties getting in, etc... I'm extending all badges to the end of the month. So, if working on the monthly badge, Princess week, Day badges, etc... you have until April 30th. After that, we'll play it by ear come May. I hope this helps everyone not stress about getting stuff done on time etc... Also, the monthly badge is the only one you would really have to try and do. But if you can't for whatever reason, no worries! I promise, no one is going to get kicked out, a bad grade or anything like that. lol We're here to have fun! Not added stress and anxiety. Have fun! Juju💚🐛

👋Hey everyone, I wanted to make a thread where we post regularly about things we are greatful for. All of us are apart of this club because we are going through something. I have learned in the midst of heal and working through tough stuff, it's easy to overly fixate on our pain to the extent that it consumes us. This thread is ment to be a reminder that even in your dark moments and pain there is always something to appreciate. In terms of posts you can post about anything that you are greatful for, something good that happen to you, or an accomplishment that you are proud of really anything that made you smile or was a win.🏆 A note on depression: For those that struggle with depression, like myself, if you did a good thing or a good thing happened to you, you don't have to feel good to acknowledge that you did good or experienced good. The gratitude might not always take the pain away but it's a helpful practice to intercept a drespression spiral. The goal of this thread is to be a resource to help anyone going through a hard time to feel better even if it's for one moment. Feel free to post as often as you want and if you find it helpful visit this thread when you feel down. I'll check at least twice a week to react and comment. Please be encouraged. You are strong, capable, and good things will happen to you. 😊 ~ 💛 Pichu My gratitudes and accomplishments: 🩷I am greatful that I got to talk to my best friend today, it was special bc I got to hear some encouraging words from her. It made me feel hope that I can change my life's course for the better. 🏆I am so proud of myself that I told my husband good things about my day instead of complaining like I use to do.

Many of us struggle a lot in life. In fact all of us struggle with something. It's something we all have in common! We all have struggles, frustrations, pain, suffering and it is hard for everyone to face. There are so many cliché things people say to others when they want to help them feel better, but sometimes it's our own words that mean the most. Affirmations! I use affirmations daily, well most days, to help me stay focused on my growth and to stop comparing myself with others. There are several ways affirmations can be done. I'll list a few. - Goggle a list and write the ones you need. Read them daily to yourself in a mirror while looking at yourself. (The Cleveland Clinic is a great resource!) - Write your own list of 3 - 5 affirmations. Read them daily to yourself in a mirror while looking at yourself. - Write a new list daily of 3 - 5 and read them aloud to a partner, friend, or in the mirror. - (I do this one) Write a new list of 3 - 5 daily. Write each affirmation 5 - 10 times each. Send proof to a friend on days you are struggling. - (I do this one) when feeling overwhelmed, anxious, uncomfortable, write preplanned affirmation 10 - 20 times to refocus attention. (I use "I am safe" "I am accepted" "I am likable" "I belong here" "I am lovable") I write one, then take a deep breath. - I taped a postive job review to my bathroom mirror and read the comments outloud as affirmations, too. This is a practice that has helped me get out of some dark places recently. I thought maybe we could share an affirmation that helped us below. Or maybe how you use affirmations to help you grow. Here's my favorite affirmations. "My past does NOT define me, it makes me stronger." "Being little is safe." "I am likable" "I am capable of...." (changes often) "Rest is healing. I am taking care of me."

Hi @clamchowder, I'm happy to see you here! I hope this thread is helpful to you, and brings some joy into your life. I am greatful for the energy I have had today to get so much house work done. I am greatful for the amazing BFF I have and that we have been blessed with so much time to spend together. I am greatful for my Daddy/husband, for being patient with me as I figure out who I am and for accepting all of me.

I love this idea. - Today I found new succulents and I bought an Orange Tree - It rained today. We always need the rain - My Kermit the dog has been super snuggly today and he is calm enough to pet. His anxiety has made that hard lately. - I ate two meals today, both healthy. Life has been hard so its good to remember to be grateful for the little things.

Today, I have a lot to be thankful for: - Being one year older - Grown kids who love to help out and take care of me as much as I try to help them - AC as its like 90 today - the ability to see doctors when I need to.

you can also find some really great affirmations on pinterest! i put lots in my journal too :3 it's a great place to look when i'm feeling sad and struggling to say the words myself.

That looks really good glad you had fun doing it

Today I am greatful for modern medicine. I am also grateful for my puppies. They are super sweet and keep me company.

@SquirtleSquad @SarBear55 @Fox H @DaddysCosmicBunny @Baby.M @RoseyLittle @innerchildtml Hello all! Thanks for those that continue to check in as it is important in fairness for earning the badge at the end (which I am starting to work on!!!) For this final check in please tell me your favorite season of the year. Also we have several new posts up for final assignment and questions so go check that out.

i am grateful for the friends i still have and will make in the future

I'm so thankful for so much today! Today I went grocery shopping, and ran errands, made an appointment by calling the office, and scheduled a meeting for work (via email) to discuss my job for the fall. I rested and ate lunch, worked on laundry, have supper in the crockpot, responded to a dr message, and showered! I'm so grateful I'm starting to feel better after all the med changes the past few weeks. It was good to stay outta bed all day!

@lillizzie24 I've never done one of these before. Here are the items for my Zoo Badge.

@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella You know what time it is!!! The book is zipping right along. Thabk you to all who have checked in, I will be reaching put to those who havnt to make sure they are still with us. So without further delay feel free to read chapters 17-19. Enjoy!

Today I am grateful for the ability to garden. I was able to put a bunch of new plants into pots. Also for new friends. I have had the chance to chat with so many people and it helps keep me moving.

Love this! Mine may sound simple, but they are really big for me! I am grateful I talked with both my kids today! I am grateful I rode my recumbent bike today for 5 minutes! I am grateful I stayed out of bed all day! I am grateful I was able to cook and eat 2 healthy meals today. I am grateful the forum was working and I was able to send a few friends gifs to encourage them today!

Here is my cloud project

Yeah the suncatchers were sooo much fun! I want to do that one again for sure and make all kinds of shadows.

I am so greatful for my Daddy! This afternoon was rough, but I was able to make it through bc of him. He cuddled with me and played music to help me calm down. He doesn't judge me or make me feel ashamed. He is always there for me. I'm greatful that I got time to spend with my god-sister. She so funny and fun. Her bright personality made me feel happy. I am so blessed to be connected to her. I am greatful that I am getting better with my mental health. I'm not as depressed as use to be. I can honestly say that things are getting better and I believe that my future is full of laughter and joy. Thank you all for your sharing your gratitudes it made me happy to know that good things are happening not only to me but to people within the community I care about. 💛

That is so awesome I love seeing everything you did!! Snickers slice is another fav Aussie slice so not worries having to swap it. you did so good with the activity book to and your snake is awesome!! the bunyip is one of my FAVOURITE Aussie legends! The koala kickers would be a formidable team and be feared across the league I’m sure!

@BabyPoppyThank you for sharing such a genuine and heartfelt message. Life Struggles It’s comforting to be reminded that none of us are alone in what we carry, even when life feels heavy. Your words encourage honesty, compassion, and strength, and that can mean so much to someone who’s struggling. In addition to reaching out to someone supportive, a simple affirmation that may help someone keep going is: "I am stronger than this moment, and I will get through one baby step at a time." Thank you again for posting something so real, thoughtful, and encouraging. Keep up the good work!

What a lovely idea and a great reminder for us all that, even when we are in a moment of weakness or a darker place, we can still acknowledge those sometimes simple pleasures that help to keep us afloat and see us through to the next day of sunshine. I'm grateful for my sweet babygirl who has changed my life forever and gives me such love and devotion each and every day. She's continues to be a light in the darkness❤️ I'm grateful, too, for finding a warm and friendly place such as this, where we are made to feel so welcome and at least a little bit understood, and all of the great people on here, especially all of you littles who may not feel that you are so great at times, but are stronger and better individuals because of how you face the world and face the pain that life sometimes gives us all. 🤗 Finally, today I am grateful for the food and shelter I can enjoy, and being able to look out of my window to see the sky, trees, birds and flowers. 🌳🐦🥀

Today i am grateful for time with my kiddo to make a fun arctic diorama! 🤭 I don't sharr my glue gun... so I did more work than i should have, but it was fun... 🤷‍♀️ plus she had to teach me about the topic so I could glue it together...

Here are my activities for this month’s badge. It was so much fun crafting with my girls 💕 @Daddy Bear 77 * Make a sun-catcher, and display it in your windows: We made butterfly wing suncatchers and played with them outside! I saw a dinosaur one and wanna make it this summer. Rawwwr 🦖 * Create a cloud out of materials you have at home, e.g. - cotton balls, beads, yarn, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, etc.. use your imagination: We decided to make a rainy cloud science experiment and learn about precipitation! It was such messy fun! * Plant A Fairy Garden: The weather isn’t quite ready to plant everything yet but we got our fairy gardens ready!

Fall and spring tie for me. I love watching everything bloom and how colorful spring is and fall is just as colorful and sweaters.

My favorite season is fall! Absolutely love all the colors and of course Halloween! 🎃

My favorite season is winter, although I hate the cold😃

Thank you @babypichu5 that's very kind of you! I am grateful for this space, too! I am grateful for being brave today I made several important phone calls, emails, and a trip to Walmart...

Your very welcome. 🤗 As for my favorite food, spaghetti squash and meat sauce or meat balls. I usually pair it with some veggies, today I did peas. Thank you for asking!🩷

@babypichu5for giving us this space. Im so happy we have it to support each other. Can I ask what your favorite food is? Grateful for quiet time The ocean as it seems to wash my spirit clean. Puppy loves to make the sun shine.

Hi @BabyPoppy, it sounds like you had a productive day. I'm happy to hear you're feeling better and are able to do more things bc of that. Also thank you and @innerchildtml for consistently sharing your gratitudes and wins. I hope it sheds some light in your lives as much as it has mine. I'm thankful that I got to eat my favorite meal for lunch today. I take alot of comfort in have my favorite foods on repeat so that brought me joy. 😁 I'm so greatful for my boss. He's very understanding with me and let me take on a more accessible task when I was feeling worn out today. 😁 I'm really greatful my mental health has been improving. The obsessive/ intrusive thoughts have reduced and I am better at identifying my triggers. 😊

-Today I am greatful that I could get a bunch of house work done. Laundry, dishes, cooking and more. -I'm greatful that my new med has not given me any side effects. -I'm greatful that Daddy and I are starting to find a balance between being Daddy and baby girl and our adult selves.

@innerchildtml, I happy to hear you have people around you to support you. Please keep taking care of yourself. 💛

Here is hoping everything goes we first

The last few days have been hard. I am so grateful for my circle. They took calls or text let me cry and then helped build me back. I also am grateful for the opportunity to spend time with loved ones. Its amazing to learn from my elders.

Wow @Sicarie all that sounds amazing! Yeah, I got some marigold seeds to plant. They really help with deterring pests.

we have a live hyperbeam room, just have to make an account, join the link i drop and then we watch and chat on it live.

Hello, @MasterPhotog, thank you for your thoughtful reply. It brought me joy to read your kind words. I would really love for this thread to be a place that people can expirence encouragement and positivity as part of their journy. Thank you for considering me for one of the leadership roles. I am interested, though I would need more time to get settled in the club be for becoming one of the leaders. I'll reach out to you at the start of next month, I think by then I should be settled. Thank you for setting up this club and giving all of us a place to have support as we heal and flourish. 😁

Accessories count! 100% what's a school uniform without a tie, belt and socks? it's just a shirt and skirt!

Reading your gratitudes brought a smile to my face. It sounds like you accomplished alot. I'm happy for you Poppy. 💛

Hi Glowworms! Juju here! I hope y'all are doing well and all of you are coming along on your projects easily and it's enjoyable. So, just a few things I need to touch base on and a few new things to announce. First, If you are a Leader but you are also a Daddy/ Mommy and have a little in the Guild, you cannot sign off on their projects and badges. Specifically to make this fair for those that do not have a CG type. Hence the need of leaders in our Group. You can help with their projects to earn their badges but they have to have another leader sign off. If anyone is not in agreement with this, no matter the reason, I can put up a poll and we can vote on it. No problem!☺️ Secondly, Extentions are mostly given for health issues (physical or mental), technical difficulties, emergencies in your rl, that sort of things. I understand that the way i had it set up, has been difficult for some because of work, family, etc... so as of May, this will be the new norm. At least for now: 1. Monthly badges will remain the same as far as duration. It starts the 1st and ends the last day of the month. If the month has 31 days, then it would be the 31st. Or the 30th and/or the 28th for February. 2. One day badges: will be given at least a week ahead. And due before midnight on the day it is for. For example, St. Patrick's Day is the 17th, so i would post the day badge on the 10th. So you would have the 7 Days before to finish. If the badge happens to be, let's say for the 4th of July, that day badge would start the 28th of June and due on the 4th by midnight. 3. Special Badges: "Special Badges" are for those badges earned for things in everyday life that gives us issues or difficulties. Such as the cleaning room one or the Going out one me. These really don't have a due date and it can be done at your own pace. If any one has something they would like to try earning a badge for, more or less on your own, please let me know! I can set it up for you. 4. If you ever have an idea for the group, please let me know and I can see if it would be a thing we can do. 5. New rules will be posted soon. 6. There will be 2 meetings a month starting in May. The fun Virtual meeting toward the end of the month with @lillizzie24 and one towards the beginning of the month for those that can't make the virtual meeting for whatever reason. It would be just texting (like a chat room) . I've not decided where this group chat will be yet, but not Discord. Simply because I'm not allowed to be on discord. I'm sorry if this seems longer then some but i just wanted to make sure you were all informed of changes and such. Juju💚🐛

go a physical zoo or virtual zoo via the cam links I share or any other u find, write what your favorite animal was and why. Research zoos animals and how zoos use enrichments with the animals. finally a zoo craft. In June I plan on going over facts about different zoo animals and enrichment along with a craft. I had a few more cams to do this month that we didn't get to because we were having so much fun with it and I wanted to share all the other fun zoos I was a little over prepared lol

Little one you and your littlerens did such inventive and fun looking crafts for this badge! Sun catcher butterfly wings (my next band's name) look so cute and fun to make*hugs you* and they created such cool colors and shapes on the ground. The cloud looks like a mix between a fancy drink and a fancier milkshake. It looks like you learned about dissolution too love watching colors mix together that way. It reminds me of an experiment where due is dropped in a tube that can be rotated and upon rotating it in the reverse it reverts back to it unmixed state. What a lovely fairy village you have there complete with a department of transportation and water utility. It looks like a tight knit community where everyone is welcome as they are and all the days activities include dancing and merrymaking. Daddy is so proud of you for completing your badge despite all the hardships and pain this month. Excellent job little one. I hereby certify that @RoseyLittle has met the requirements for the April Showers Bring May Flower Badge. Congratulations 🎉 you deserve it.

@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Thanks for being patient guys, the site has been a mess so questions have been tricky but here are questions from chapters 7-9. Those were some gooooood chapters but I kinda hate Abby right now and feel like its gonna get worse in chapter 10. Per usual post in the topic linked below and remember to spoil. Questions: Post here: https://www.ddlgforum.com/topic/65741-beautiful-disaster-question-answers-spoilers/#comment-376550

great job!! love your sun catchers that was such a neat idea!! I was looking at the rain cloud in a jar but haven't had a chance to get more food coloring

Daddy took out to the dumpster(we live in an apartment), a bunch of cardboard boxes that we had for packing, when we thought we were going to move. We still are at some point, but not soon. Anyway... He took those out for me today and just having those taken out makes a big difference! One of my quirks is I'm a note taker.i mean, a continuous, on going note writer. It's one of my autistic quirks apparently. But, I have to have pen and paper with me at all times! It is what it is! I said allllll that just to say I've been writing and drawing plans for what I want to do to my room for organizational and decorating ideas. It makes me feel like I'm getting some where. Now to just get them implemented! lol

I was pretty sick today, so I listened to my audiobook instead of watching movies. I'll try to catch up on the movies tomorrow! My Jasmin costume is waiting for me! Here are some more Princess pictures I colored today!

I donated some more stuff... this was actually the 2nd car load... I'm deep cleaning the house... I also filled and had a dumpster emptied in the past week... I already started refilling it again...