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@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Hello all! Its the time you all have been waiting for!!! Our first assignment! The chapters are a bit longer so we are starting with just chapters 1-3. Make sure and stop once to get to the end of chapter 3. Assignments are every Wednesday. I should have questions out within a few days for those who plan on doing those. They are optional but alot of fun. So enjoy all!!!

shadowrider has placed all badges in your profiles that you've earned so far. If you've not earned one yet, you still have a GLOWWORM GUILD badge. When I'm sure everyone is finished with the SPRING INTO SPRING badge, I'll send him the list and he'll add those to those who have finished. You still have to midnight to finish it. I think the April badges should be up but if not, they will be tomorrow! Lots to do for next month! Y'all did great jobs! Juju💚🐛

Here's my nature drawing. I started with some Tulips. My community is very Dutch by ancestry and celebrates an annual Tulip Festival, so Tulips are planted everywhere, we are taught about them in grade school, and there's a huge fine if you pick the ones in the park or on public property. 🫣🙄... We also learned to Dutch dance in wooden clogs and have 6 parades in 3 days in mid May! 🤭🥰 Daisy's used to be my favorite. The simple, pure, white elegance of the flowers always drew me to them. I had someone who made them an unhappy experience, so I try my best to not hold it against the flowers... I also drew some trees, coz trees are the bestest creatures in the world! They live forever and are so wise!

This is my stuffie picnic. My Care Bear, named, Care Bear and my blue Alien, named Zarina are 2 of my favorites this week, so they joined me for a picnic, snack... I gave them each a Girl Scout Cookie and I got some sweet potato puffs! (Kinda pushing the line on too much sugar with the puffs, but one or two should be ok...🥰). The stuffie had pretend drinks coz I let them sit on my favoritest Hello Kitty blanky... I had water... coz it's all I can have...

@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Hello all! Thank you again for being patient with our tech difficulties. I have help off on an official check in this week because of it but feel free to pop into general chat and tell me you are still participating. Questions are coming I just dont want to get cut off mid post. That being said feel free to read chapters 10-12!!!

Our 2nd badge! Yaaay! For those of you that wish to participate, here are the requirements to earn the "April Showers Brings May Flowers" : ( Activity suggestions are at the bottom of page.) BADGE: ~April Showers Brings May Flowers DATES: 4/1 - 4/30 REQUIREMENTS: 1. Pick a leader and ask them if they are available 2. Decide on 3 Activities below. Let your leader know, but you can change your mind if you decide you prefer not to do one you've picked. Just let your leader know which you've switched to. 3. When you are finished, take photos of everything you did and write a small explanation. If you're a little. Just take the photo. Activities: ( Choose 3-4) * Make a sun-catcher, and display it in your windows * Write a paragraph about the types of clouds there are, and what, if anything they do. * Create a cloud out of materials you have at home, e.g. - cotton balls, beads, yarn, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, etc.. use your imagination! * Create a Spring Bird Feeder * Plant A Container Fairy Garden * Cardboard cloud *Paper plate rainbow craft * Learn about April's Birth Fower- Daisy * Fly a Kite * Start to plan a Summer Bucket List * Make a flower, ladybug or butterfly, out of air dry clay. (Can purchase at Walmart, Craft stores, Amazon, etc) (Pinterest has lots of ideas and I've started a Glow Worm Guide Board, if you have a Pinterest account, you are more then welcome to follow it) ** If you do go to Pinterest or any other site, that's fine, but let me or your leader know what you're doing if it's NOT on the list above. Any questions fill free to ask. Leaders and their GWG member: 🐛 @beanbean: 🐛 @Daddy Bear 77: 🐛 @InspireDaddy 🐛 @shadowrider (substitute) 🐛 @Very Proud and Happy Daddy(substitute) These are thee leaders this month. You can ask here in thee comments. That way i can put who goes to who.

So I shared my answers before reading everyone else’s and I gotta say… Everyone’s answer for #2 is so meaningful/thoughtful. 😭 While mine is just like “idk, maybe he likes them? 🤷🏽‍♀️🐦” 🤣🤣🤣

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let y'all know there are going to be a few changes, such as how we do the badges, links to the badges for physical purchases if you want (No, I'm not affiliated with any of them in anyway), some organizational stuff going on hopefully to make our stuff run smoother and a few other things. Outside of our monthly virtual meeting, (which you do not have to use the video part by the way), I think we should have a monthly meeting at the beginning of the month also, here. Just a thought. I was able to get my computer so hopefully this will be allot easier to do lol. Have a happy Easter. Juju💚🐛

It’s still very much snow central up here in Canada (although the geese have come back today, meaning Spring is finally just around the corner). So I took my tiny humans for a hike to go explore and find/learn about any greenery that is still green even in snow. And find somethings to craft with. We found different kind of evergreen trees and lots of bunny tracks! We decided to craft a whole bunch of pinecone bird feeders and string them up in our trees. And eat a little peanut butter for ourselves. Yum yum! 🌲🌲🌲 Thank you for all your help @Daddy Bear 77

I mad little leaf bug friends using leaves I found outside! I picked ones that looked like wings and bodies and turned them into tiny buggies and a big butterfly!

This is my Fairy Terrarium. I planted Chia seeds in it. They should grow in a few days. I only planted a few, so I can do this over and over!

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💚🐛

@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright yall thanks for being patient!!! Here are your questions from chapters 4-6. Per usual remember to spoil and post in the topic linked below. Questions for chapters 7-9 will be up shortly. Questions: Post here: https://www.ddlgforum.com/topic/65741-beautiful-disaster-question-answers-spoilers/#comment-376550

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright yall I know the site has been down but just keep doing your reading and as soon as its stable I will post questions. I have been amazed and impressed with participation so far so thank you guys! Now go enjoy chapters 7-9 friends!!!!

I've been thinking about how I wanted to label stuff and make it easier for us all to find, post, etc... I've about got that figured out so look for that to be up and posted by this weekend. Also, there will be differently things with the badge requirements, length of badges, etc... for example, * Day Badges will be up a week before they're actually due. So that you have that week before to work on them, and then the actual due date will be the day of the badge. * There will be different requirements given for little's and middles. But, not set in stone. If you are a little bit want to do middle you can. It'll mostly just be giving activity ideas for both. Anyway, this is just a few things coming up. ☺️ I hope y'all had a great Easter. I don't remember if i even told y'all that! Lol Juju💚🐛

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright all I know you have been chomping at the bit for new chapters so feel free to now read chapters 4-6! Questions will be up in a few days. If you haven't checked in please do so!!! Once a week check ins are mandatory. Thanks all!

Here is my Autism Awareness Day submission. 1. Wear Blue/Puzzle Pieces- Work gave us bracelets and a pin for our lanyard to wear today. 2. Colored a drawing for the day 🙂 3. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition which affects the way a person perceives the world, communicates and interacts with others. There are varying degrees of the condition, which is why it is a spectrum, with high functioning on one end and low functioning on the other. Every individual is different, with differing needs and supports, but masking is a common theme among people with ASD. Masking is often a tool used by people with ASD to interact with others socially. It often looks like mirroring or the mimicry of one’s peers when one is unsure of how to act in a social situation. It can be driven by fear or a perceived lack of acceptance for being how one naturally is. Females mask more than males due to the perceived judgment for being “weird” and wanting to fit in. Females also face a societal expectation to be more mature and often internalize difficulties, which leads to masking how they are truly feeling. As a neurodivergent myself, which a brother who has Asperger Syndrome, I am glad there has been a shift towards understanding and acceptance for all on the spectrum. 💜 @beanbean or @Daddy Bear 77, could one of you sign off on this for me? 🙂

My Spring into Spring Badge I had a Teddy Bear Picnic with my super warm electric blanket as it was a cold day, my pink bear was the first one of them I ever got, his name is Gerald.... Therefore, to my daddy, they're all called Gerald. I have a very large and growing collection of them, our picnic only included 6 bears because they are the oldest which means they can leave the warm bed to eat snackies with me. We had to crowd in a bit to all get in the photo but everyone made it 😃 P.s. the duct tape covers a little hole it the wall, I'm so scared that a spiders gonna be living in it, so we covered it up for our picnic. I appear to have confused bird feeder and bird house 😅 please let me know if this doesn't count, we have 2 tiny little birdies that keep hanging around outside our door, so when i saw a paint your own birdhouse i thought it'd be perfect. It has to be pink of course! I'm sure the birdies also like pink, maybe that's why they hang around. My house still looks a bit rough, It needs a final coat of paint I also chose to draw and write about a flower, narcissus is the flower designated to birthdays in December, which makes it my birthday flower, so I thought it'd be fun to learn more about it! I hope this is enough to sign off on my spring badge, @Daddy Bear 77, please let me know, and thank you again for being my leader!!

Everyone that earned last month's badge has received it. You can check your profile and it should show in the badge section. Make sense, huh?🫣🤭 Thanks to our handy dandy @shadowrider. Thank you!!

@Daddy Bear 77 Here’s my tasks for the spring badge! Thank you so much for reviewing them! I chose to learn about azaleas because they’re so bright and pretty in the spring! I found out that they bloom in warm months and come in really beautiful colors! There were so many in my garden. I had a picnic with some of my stuffie friends! We had lots of yummy snackies and sat together watching Peter Rabbit.

I have completed my activities for the spring badge! Photos attached. The paragraph for the Wisteria is below the photos. @Daddy Bear 77 1: Planted all my vegetables! Cilantro, chives, basil, parsley, cucumber, squash, tomatoes, carrots, kale, lettuce etc 2: Spring Bird Feeders! 4 different ones for the cardinals and woodpeckers. 3: Pick a flower and write a paragraph about it! ^^ This is wisteria. It only blooms for about a month in the early springtime. It is native to both the US and Asia. There is Japanese Wisteria, which twists clockwise as it grows and Chinese Wisteria which twists counterclockwise as it grows. It can bloom in both purple and white, and is highly fragrant. It can reach up to 70 feet long and is highly aggressive, which can lead to it strangling mature plants and trees if not pruned properly. Both its flowers and seed pods are toxic to pets and humans but they sure are pretty to look at.

I finish my recycled cloth project. I have painted my rocks and I colored a picture of earth running out of time. @InspireDaddy did I do enough to get my Earth day badge?

This month we are going to take a outing the zoo!!! Please let me know all of your favorite zoo animals so I make sure we visit those animals and pack for adventure!!! This will start our Zoo badge. I will even throw in a petting zoo animals so that can go towards our petting zoo part of the season challenge for everyone working on the spring challenges. We cant really touch them but I'm sure there are others like me unable to actually go to a petting zoo right now. Im planning a fun snack to tie into it just haven't figured out what I want to do yet once I do Ill post it so everyone who wants a snack can enjoy it. If you cant attend u still can earn the badge by going to the zoo in person or virtually to fulfil this part of the badge. Im so excited see everyone there!!!!

I had grand plans for this week, but it did not happen. My life got the better of me. I hope what I did is still enough to get the badge. If not its okay, I enjoyed all the movies, singing, and other stuff I did. @InspireDaddy will you review this one too.

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Hello all! Here is where the bulk of chat happens! So here is where yall can talk about the book (make sure to use spoilers!), where I will post check in messages, where I will post little reminders, ect. Yall are also welcome to just interact in general. Its a very low key section.

Here are my things for our Easter badge. I hope everyone had a lovely holiday! 💕🐣 @Daddy Bear 77 can you sign off on my badge please? I think I did all the pieces for the holiday weekend. 1. In our family we celebrate both Ostara and Easter at this time of year. We have certain traditions we do each year: we always paint eggs and bury them in our garden, I make Easter baking together with my girls, and we have a big Easter dinner with all of my siblings and their kiddos. It’s also a tradition to go to the experimental farm and agricultural museum up here. We get to see all the spring baby animals, make crafts, learn all about cocoa and eggs, and just generally have a hoot! 2. Here are the eggs my girls and I coloured: 3. As part of Easter Day the girls woke up to baskets from the Easter bunny and an egg hunt around the house. I played with them and their new toys and then made Easter cookies. Unfortunately my two year old threw her toy unicorn while we were playing and it landed on my foot and dislocated a toe - darn ehlers joints! But that couldn’t stop the day! (Just meant I had to wear slippers to dinner lol) After nap we went to the big family dinner with my family. It was both a wonderful day because of all the fun with my girls, and a hard one as the first Easter since separation but still going together as family. One of the best parts of my day was my Easter surprise Daddy made for me so I could have a little holiday magic too, something I haven’t had in a long time. So at the end of my day I got to do a virtual egg hunt with Daddy. 4. I coloured a picture for the season: 5. For the free activity I made sugar cookies and bird nest cookies with the girls:

OMG! Bit late to the reading, just finished chapter 1, but fun fact I'm currently studying the same thing as Travis! What are the chances😆

Daisy research! I found the best background for the info! It was so pretty!

Hi everyone!!! Can I just start a special music playlist for folks who are looking for healing? It can be whatever song helps you feel/express all kinds of feelings about the effects of trauma and what it means to heal. You Will be Found - Dear Evan Hansen Soundtrack What was I Made For- Barbie soundtrack My House - Matilda movie soundtrack Fix You- Coldplay Ex Factor - Lauryn Hill Hold Us Together- Matt Maher When I Look to the Sky- Train Little Wonders - Rob Thomas Shine your Way - Owl City At All Costs - Wish movie soundtrack I am Moana (ancestors song)- Moana movie soundtrack What it Sounds Like - Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack The Story - Brand Carlile Here's the YouTube music link https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpa_dd22kI4d879jy4GG6U5BJJuJUDu4d&si=rx2xcuzd5t4ak2gM What playlist would you make for yourself or a friend? Feel free to add to this or make your own. What matters to you most when you listen to music, what do some of your favorite songs do for you??

Yay! Another great badge to work on. Thank you @Juju for the wonderful ideas. @Daddy Bear 77 Daddy will you please be my leader too? I’m gonna do a suncatcher, cloud making and fairy garden. 💕

GUUUUUUUUUUYSSSSSS THE BADGE JUST GOT LOADED ONTO MY PROFILE!!!!!

I posted mine Monday in the ‘pictures go here’ section. It’s titled Alise’s spring badge. ^-^

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright friends, all the important topics are up and functional and ready for pur first assignment tomorrow! Go ahead and poke around to familiarize ypurself with them. Can't wait for this adventure!!!

@SweetLittleDreamer

Name: Alise Little age: 2-5 Birthday: June 10th Favorite color: PINK!! … and sparkles if you count sparkles as a color… Interests: Coloring, animal crossing, stickers, cute baby animals, candy, calico critters, bird watching, sparkly things (I love my shiny lil trinkets), my little pony, littlest pet shops, reading, unicorns, and kitties!

Just a poll to see what would be the preferred "official" outfit for the group. Although we don't have physical meetings, it would be something we could wear for meetings, when we go out for adventures to earn badges, just for wherever or whatever we want to make us feel more like a connected Troop. Vote for your choices and if you have any questions please ask! Juju💚🐛

Jujus Spring into Spring,@MissAnna Here is my first requirement, I write a little paragraph about my favorite flower, with a picture of it. The picture is from the internet. But I wanted everyone to see incase they didn't know what it looked like.

I've been eyeing this! It looks bigger then I thought! You did such a great job!

Our first meeting was so much fun!!!! I really enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to know them! some things we discussed for future meetings are having a sleepover where we do things throughout the day/night that everyone can join as they can and we have fun doing crafts, games and general fun!!! board game meetings, virtual outings, service badges to help at animal shelters and other places, bowling night can be done via a game or home if needed I personally have no bowling allies near me, snacks we can all make during meetings and enjoy together. please let me know if there are any allergies I need to be aware of so I don't include them in a snack, mental health/ self care badge which will include making a calming bottle, homemade stress balls, bath bombs, lip gloss and so much more!!! camping night which includes crafts and pit tin campfire so we can have yummy s'mores!! and so much more fun stuff!!! I'm so excited for our future meetings. meetings also can be tied into our monthly badges so we can work on them together too. also we will keep track of who attends and badges can be earned for attendence. I am so excited for all of this Please let me know if u have any other ideas that may not have been brought up or I missed I kept notes but might of missed something

Hi everyone! Here are my pictures for the Sping into Spring badge! I had an indoor picnic with my little friend! It was the perfect occasion to catch up I asked him what he likes doing during the day when I leave home. His answer was pretty evasive...I think he might be up to something! Also, my best friend invited me on a walk in the forest and I found much material to make this wood fairy! Her hair is made of spruce needles, her top is made of moss, her pant is made of birch bark, her arms are tiny tree branches and her shoes are small tree cones My last picture for the month will be in the next post!

Here's my last picture! I drew many flowers and a tree As much as I like winter, I'll be very happy when spring arrives for real in my area 🌻 Thank you so much @Daddy Bear 77 for overseeing my badge this month! I had much fun doing these activites and I'm looking forward to doing my next badge Thank you all for your hard work and your time! Thanks @Juju 💛 (If anyone is curious, I had to make an album in the gallery to upload the pictures, but I changed the settings so that I'm the only one who can see the album itself. I think it worked.)

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Okay, so I love both! 😅 But, I do feel like Abby’s hiding a difficult past that I can’t wait to uncover!

OMG, I’m loving this book! Fighting myself to not read ahead! 🤣😜

great job! your craft is so cute!!! what video game did u play? I love video games

@Daddy Bear 77 here is my autism badge I did research on being on the spectrum, wore blue and made a sensory bottle ok 2 of them lol 1. Being on the spectrum means having low functioning in one area of your life for example communication and really high functioning in another like intelligence. Someone that is on the spectrum usually has one area they are super skilled at like an amazing talent for math or memory like remembering every single persons role in movies and knowing all about the movies they watch. They usually have at least one sense very sensitive then another. That sensory being overloaded can really bother that person. If its hearing they can hear things that most people don't even notice for example the buzzing of the lights in a store. On the same aspect some of their senses relax them for example touch. They can be overly sensitive to the feeling of things for example a tag on a piece of clothing can be very overstimulating or just gently touching certain objects calm them right down. Every person on the spectrum is unique in their own way. 2. Masking is copying everyone else and acting like a non spectrum person just to fit in. They observe the movements, speech, facial expressions to mirror people. They force eye contact and mimic how people talk by using non direct sentences or quieter voices. They hide their stimming which is a way of comfort or to show how happy they are. some people rock, flap their hands and or arms, or even make special noises while they stim. 3. females mask more then males because they are more pressured into being social and comforming into what their peers want them to act look and be like. The pictures show my sensory bottles. I ended up making 2 because the first one I decided to add a pink glitter food gel because I wanted it blue but I couldn't find my regular food dye and it ended up a little cloudy and cant see my seashells well. So I made a 2nd one. I also am wearing blue which is the 3rd requirement. I tried explaining my research the best I could I'm not good at fully explaining things at times, but if more information or have questions please ask and I will add to it

@Daddy Bear 77 will u be my leader for this month?

For this month the 3 activities I did were: Teddy bear Picnic (inside): I had a picnic with my carebears Frankie & Fran. We had one biscuit each, some Nashi pear slices, popcorn & some apple and black current juice to drink. Frankie & Fran recently got married so they were telling me all about their wedding (it was a stuffies only wedding) and how they plan to go on their honeymoon to the Hotel Transylvania. Fran told me she borrowed the wedding dress from her friend Emily & how they wrote their own vows. It was a nice picnic.. even if I’m still not completely over not being invited to my own stuffies wedding! Write about a plant or flower: I chose the Rose to write about, I won’t spoil anything here as I made a digital poster. I will get someone to upload the pictures for me as I have a really weird anxiety around uploading photos to the internet myself. Birdfeeder…(ish): Ok sooo the …(ish) is because the bird feeder was technically made towards the end of last year at my dads.. where I live we are not allowed to feed the birds because they become a nuisance… so I didn’t want to make something I couldn’t use… however my dad lives in an area it’s totally fine to feed them & last year we made a bird feeder out of some things we found laying around. I’ll also get photos of birds using them uploaded. Note: I spoke to @Juju and she said it was fine to do this. @MissAnna was going to sign off on my badge, but incase she isn’t able to @beanbean @Daddy Bear 77 or @Daddy dom 82 would one of you mind signing off?

Very nice! You did a great job!

If there aren't some you can do, then we'll figure out a way to adjust them for you if we need to. No worries.