Life in community

A sleepy day on the West End of Glasgow.

This past week we were paid a visit by CRM's Staff Develpment and Care Team. This gave us (NieuCommunities) a well needed break from the normal pace, and time to unload as a team.
You might think that living in "community" sounds easy - but for many reasons it seems to have gotten complicated.
This is free: An important thing to keep in mind when living in community is "feedback". Let others on your team know what you think about team things. Not in some verbal explotion but instead with consistancy and constructiveness. This gift of feedback greatly benifts your team, your feedback my not always be right (unless you are Brian I.) but it is what you see as the best course of action and you need to share that.
What might be the side effects of not sharing ones feedback? Maybe growing frustration with your lack of influence/direction, gossip, team might get stuck, communication happens only between a few so the team fractures, etc.
I am learning a lot about leadership. The SDaCTeam has really shown me how I am not contributing to the feedback and movement of our team. I have not been good at communication, which is not good for someone in the leadership development business.
Anyway, just some thoughts
Mike

The scan

This is the little one who is nameless. Why is it that boy names are so hard to come up with, I guess we should hope for a girl then.

Nothing special

First, a quick reminder to check out our flickr link to view more photos. Go ahead, check it out now.

Well lately Jae and I have been reminded of the burdens of pregnancy. You may ask "Mike you are not the one with a being growing in side you, what possible burden could you have?" Mmm. At this point I should say, "good point, my bad!" but its not a good point, not at all.
Listen to this, and you tell me who suffered. Jae no longer likes to sleep on her right side, no, now it has to be the left side, which would not be a problem if I was not sleeping to that side of her. See, I have a tendancy to breath when I sleep, which "blows all over" Jaelyn and disturbs her greatly.
So we switch sides of the bed - I love my right side of the bed, I have a special connection to it. I love not being near the door and close to the coolness of the window. But I, out of love for my wife, switch over to the left side of the bed so that now when she lays on her now prefered left side on the right side of the bed she breathes fresh cool air, and not my disruptive, hot fumes. Not a problem, right? WRONG!
The second night sleeping in this new formation I do nothing more then a textbook "right spin and advancement to the center of the bed manuver". Except, now the usual center of the bed is replaced by nothingness, just hardwood floor and a nightstand that is located at about face level. Landing on the floor would have been nice, instead I smash my face on a dresser at about 4 in the morning. Anyone who knows me, knows that I like my sleep.
So you tell me who is suffering here?
Later,
Mike

I would expect a reply from Jaelyn soon.