🏆 I'd like to thank life, for once again reminding me of what happens when I try to 'make plans'...

✅️ AC down at camps this week during 30+ temps, adapting on the fly

✅️ No lunches coming back empty, trying to avoid the 'back in my day' chats, thought visuals and choices would help, open to suggestions

✅️ Youngest kiddo mainly want not share all things with me...the bed, the food, the close contact, trying to enjoy it but sometimes "be gentle, mommy had surgery" doesn't land the same

Thankfully I already show up messy, imperfectly and as a parent, with tech enabling me to still make progress, so no sharp adjustments to the routine there.

Grateful we have these 'problems' as I know they're opportunities in disguise but the nervous system keeps getting a forced refresh on the daily!

My 2025 humbled smug summer camps parent list also includes:

• dishwasher breaking this week

• 2/3 of the kids being sick in July

• work related unpredictable events

• many health admin/appt mix ups

• trying to parent/live/work/exist with a brain injury and other invisible disability

I know it's Mercury Retrograde, a Full Moon week and 8/8 Lion's Gate Portal and all but this is taking my surrender and go with the flow practices to a new level.

Sometimes we talk about our 'good 'auld farm kid days', my small pottery production plans and going rural. Not sure if it would make a difference.*

Here are some things I'm working on within this lifetime...maybe you are too?

1. Staying in one place long enough to let the feelings catch up (helloooo 4x country moves* and many, many impromptu trips)

2. Making space for rituals to feel grounded (helps with the above, extra important now we have 3x kids)

3. Not lighting myself on fire to keep others warm (learning a bit of Human Design had me in stitches...3/5 MG meant to learn through trial and error but don't always need to sacrifice my peace!)

4. Letting my body tell me what it needs next, even if it doesn't make sense to others (I lead from a place of intuition, am often early to the innovation party and can read people without realizing it straight away, but when my body speaks I listen)

5. Learning how to translate my inner nudges into advocacy, voice and embodiment (no one is coming to save us or intuiting our needs 24/7 and being self-led has been the solution to many of my problems)

6. Taking myself seriously but also keeping it light (my art deserves a business plan, my advocacy deserves an audience, my work deserves fair compensation, my parenting deserves to be well supported AND also, life is for living, love solves many things, we can't take money with us, compassion can create magic)

*Another future move perhaps.

Anything you're learning about yourself in this season of life, parenthood and work?

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Enjoy your week/end, happy 8/8 ✨

– Amy (+ Family)

Founder + Podcast Host, Mixing Babies And Business™

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