As a 20+ year homeschool veteran, I'm excited to be collaborating with @Anna Murrietta talking about homeschooling, how grandparents can support this effort, and most importantly, how to build connections while making learning fun. Bringing my experience as a single mom, working full-time, homeschooling two competitive junior athletes, plus a dad who was super supportive in the granddad role, I bring a unique perspective to the table. What questions do you have about homeschooling? Join us 10 June 2026 11 a.m. EST - New York Inside Granparent's Corner

After yesterdays wheel coming off completely I need to do a huge shout out to another Heather for coming to my rescue. At @Heather Di Rocco of Ai in Wonderland has worked some incredible magic to get things working for the Weekly Bulletin this week. So a big round of applause goes to her. I have no idea how she has done what she has done but she is a amazing at this sort of thing, whereas Im not. So a big round of applause to you Heather.

I wanted to highlight this event a little bit more for @Isabelle Lesschaeve because Im certain we have some wine lovers out there who would love to know a bit more about how to know whats what within that glass of wine. So if this is for you, read on......... Not all are green 🟢 - Live Class June 10, 3:00 PM EDT Here's what happens when you stop being sensory curious. And it almost cost me the chance to attend an amazing tasting experience.🍷 I hadn't signed up for this tasting because I have little affinity for this varietal. However, when I was offered a free ticket, I hesitated and accepted "to be polite." Here I was, in the Sensory Theatre of the Robert Mondavi Institute, seated in front of 12 glasses, filled with a different Cabernet Sauvignon sample. For me, Cabernet Sauvignon is both 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵: two descriptors that make me usually say "no, thanks." If you have tasted different varietal wines for some time, chances are that you have also built representations of certain varietal wines. Maybe: • Banana candy for Beaujolais nouveau • Oaky and buttery for Chardonnay • Grapefruit and peach for Sauvignon blanc But this tasting changed my mind. These 12 wines tasted all different. Yes, there were two, which I described as "green and astringent." But the other samples had different flavour profiles. • Some were floral and spicy • Some were dark berries with sweet aromatics • Some were very complex, with floral, spicy, chocolate, and fruity flavours . That's why I'm excited to host 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 next Wednesday. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝟯:𝟬𝟬 𝗽.𝗺. 𝗘𝗗𝗧 (𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲). You can get your ticket to attend by signing up here. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗰𝗸-𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. Each month, we expand our wine palate through sensory practice.

Natasha from The Family Yoga Club is going to be sharing some playful yoga in the Connected Through Play community for children and their grown up - it's all about practicing together! There will be fun yoga games, movement, connection and co-regulation. Come join the fun! 17 June 2026 11 a.m. EST New York Connected Through Play Zoom link

Warning a rant is coming up but I am sharing this so I can be quite honest with you. I spent just about all my week end nutting out the next stage of my improvements to getting everyones events into the weekly bulletin to make it a much easier journey for us all. I polished up the template, created the google form and sheet, yes I know that gets automatically created from the form but I still had to do some extra formatting in there to make it work for canva bulk. Thinking I had nailed it, no I hadnt, I had issues with images, I had issues with the time showing correctly and some. But I was determined to get this launched for this week. I did no end of testing, with the form, the sheet and canva bulk create. At last everything was working, yippee I thought. So as you know I launched it. I got my first events registrations coming through and still had a glitch re the images but I sorted that. So I thought now I have a few registration forms in I would do the first bulk create. No.... canva decided not to. I spent ages last night trouble shooting, I have done so many things and it still didnt work. So I thought I would go to bed and perhaps the glitch will be gone in the morning. Well the glitch is still there and now Canva has stuffed up my template, everytime I go to recreate it the glitch is still causing problems with the template. Im now in tears as its Wednesday and I know a lot of events will be coming through . All that time and effort disappearing down the drain. Then to top it all a member asks me what the process was , so I give an explanation of post in the feed and if you want the event in the weekly bulletin , calendar and event classroom then she would need to join premium which is still back at $5. Well she churned stating she didnt believe in this method. Seriously the amount of time it takes me and my daughter plus Mary to get the events into the weekly bulletin, the calendar, the classroom and the flip book warrants far more than $5 per month, just being honest, but as we are still in our early phase $5 is where it is at whilst we are still developing and growing.