I'm still here! It's been a busy month and our home has been taken over - by Girl Scouts! My 10-year-old is a Junior and she has been involved in Girl Scouts for four years now. She loves being a Girl Scout, as I did when I was a girl. So, now that my littlest girl is in kindergarten and old enough to join a Daisy Girl Scout troop, I decided to start a troop for her! My friend Kristin and my brother-in-law Mark are both teasing me mercilessly for doing this after listening to me say I'd never sign up for anything after doing the preschool family events for the past two years. Well, let's see -- Girl Scout leader, check. Troop Cookie Manager for this year's cookie sale, um, check... Went to a Service Unit meeting last night and actually felt my volunteering arm starting to twitch when they put up the list of open positions -- like, "100 Year Anniversary Chair" and a few others... Seriously, it may be time for an intervention... But, I truly have some wonderful memories of being a Girl Scout when I was growing up -- I learned a lot, I tried tons of new things, made lots of friends and gained confidence in myself. I would love for my daughters and the girls in my troop to have some of those same experiences. And, I get to do all of this with my girls -- my youngest who is in the troop, and my eldest who will be helping out and earning her Junior Aide badge in the process. Now that makes it all worthwhile!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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"100 Year Anniversary Chair" OH YES Intervention is needed like yesterday! Crazy woman, but I love your commitment to your girls so I'll let the Cookie Manger slide but the Chair for the 100 anniversary...not a chance!
But it's the 100th anniversary!! How amazing that my girls and I are in Girl Scouts for the 100th year!! Really, I was having to hold myself back!
Yes wonderful that they are part of the 100th anniversary but you don't have to volunteer for that job! i say this only because I love you.
I know - thank you! I'm sure I won't volunteer for that job (sniff, sniff) because I'm pretty booked as it is this year. But I'd love to if I could! Hey, how's that family events job going that I tried to counsel you out of signing up for? ;) (I guess I'm not that persuasive!)
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