Something that has been taking up a lot of time lately is Girl Scouts/Brownies. Last year Gretchen started and long story short, they leaders from last year stepped down and I along with my good friend Jen, stepped up to be co-leaders. We have went from 4 girls, 2 being our daughters to 13 girls and more interested for next year. We must be doing something right, right? We have collected food for food pantries, made blankets to donate to Children's Medical Center, caroled at an assisted living facility, made Build A Bears, had pizza parties, and earned a lot of badges, Try Its from our book and Fun badges. Some of us have enjoyed Cowgirl night at the Fairgrounds, slept (or tried to )at the Miami Valley Centre Mall and we are looking forward to our dance party, delivering our cookies that we got donated to Ronald McDonald House, marching in the parade, attending an local concert event, having our end of the year b-bque complete with getting presented with more earned badges. But before all that fun we have to finish our cookie sales including sitting at Walmart 2 more afternoons to hawk our cookies, at least it is supposed to be warmer than our last Walmart outside booth - FREEZING! But I have to say the girls make it all worth it and they are a lot of fun and it gives me an opportunity to connect with Gretchen even more and some of her friends. And when we give them the end of the year trip, thinking Jumpy's (an indoor inflatables), again they will have totally deserved it! There is only one problem, I think Jen and me will be running 2 troops before we know it, since Delaney and her daughter Emma love to take part in the big girls troop and can't wait to get their own group together, at least we have another full year before they start Kindergarten.
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