Update for 'everything'

Well, here we are at the end of the first week in March and already we are halfway through the term!  And it has been a rough start - almost every week fairly vicious fights between students, girls mainly.  Our new teachers are not believing us anymore when we say that this ISN'T our normal!  

The Region camp for Tennant Creek in April has been cancelled .. or postponed is maybe a better way of putting it.  We are all good as we don't have to pay for travel (for once!) and we are pretty financial, thanks to an amazing community that supports us incredibly well ... but the other centres are not so lucky and have been unable to do much fundraising due to Covid - so everything is on hold till next year now.  And as we haven't been able to re-book at Juno for next year .. I'm not sure whether we will still be be able to use that venue.  That will be a whole new can of worms to deal with.  

I have been trying since the middle of February to get our craft ladies together for a meeting but it seems we are all busy.  Everyone probably NEEDS some crafting downtime, but life keeps getting in the way!    😕

However, we have officially renamed our group to 'The Desert Stampers', and are now a brand, with T-shirts with a thorny devil logo.  Crazy, I know, but hey!  

We are having a coffee get together tomorrow,  just 'cause, and to collect our shirts.  I'll post a picture once I have them.

I need to start posting more photos - but as I'm usually at work when doing this, it doesn't often happen. 

RAVE - Guide Leader Workshop

 You would think after nearly 40 years of doing it - that I wouldn't need training in how to run a Guide Unit/District, wouldn't you?  But there is always something new, and networking with others gives you new ideas to try out, so it's worth it. 

So the weekend just gone - we attended RAVE - Reconnect, Appreciate, Value & Enjoy.  Due to Covid, we haven't been able to have the usual trainings and meetings (because NSW can't, we can't!) so this was a good way to reconnect.

And, yes, plenty of good stuff came from it .. but I found myself bouncing between feeling inspired, and feeling like 'why the hell are we doing this?'  And I don't really know if it is me or if it is the girls and parents attitude we find today?

I am now asking myself if maybe it's finally time to just quietly walk away and be done with it?  If I am sporting a negative attitude, nothing is going to work out no matter how hard we try.  

And this also applies to school, I think. I'm finding it hard with so many of the people I resonated with having left, and watching some major changes happening.  I can't seem to find my feet or any type of solid ground at the moment. 

When I look back ...  2018 - Major heart Surgery/2019 - Wayne ill for most of the year and then 2020 was Covid and all the changes that brought.  

I think this is going to be a year of soul searching, and maybe some hard decisions to be made.  

Update for start of 2021

December has been and gone  - with our usual round of birthdays!  Katy on 8th December (21)/Isabel on 14th December (15)/Dale on 16th December (44) and Wayne on 26th (67).  As well, there are a few friends who also are December babies.  We are also through January and almost through February - this year is just going to fly by. 

Then there were the Christmas cards that were meant to be made, plus other fiddly bits such as calendars and notebooks.  There never seems to be enough hours in the day, or days in the week. A few things got done .. but time just got away. 

I 'wasted' some time at work, trying out making a paper swirl star ornament - I say 'wasted' only because I should have been doing work related stuff - but I reckon I could find a way of justifying it if I had to.  Fortunately, I have an awesome boss, who lets me get away with things like that every so often.  It didn't turn out too badly either and a lot easier than I thought.

Guides finished for the year - well, the weekly meetings anyway.  But we still had a week of Christmas Gift Wrapping once school has finished as a fundraiser.  And we were absolutely flat out wrapping - people were asking Leading Edge about us doing it BEFORE school even finished.  We made almost $1,000!  But we worked for it, that's for sure.  The community supports Guides extremely well here. 

Wayne went across to WA to spend time with Candy & Issy and had a ball.  The dog and I spent lots of time walking at the Telegraph Station - and discussing all his fur everywhere!  Not that I think he particularly cared about fur everywhere.... 

Plans were to do LOTS of craft - but again, it didn't really happen.  I did get lots of cleaning and decluttering done so I guess it evened out.  It wasn't nearly as much fun though.