Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Juliette Gordon Low

 

GIRL SCOUT DANCE

Tonight was our Annual Girl Scout Dance.

This year Bringing Back the 80's

It was a great time the girls

really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed seeing all the girls dressed up. it is funny how 80% of them all dressed like my girls below.

 

 

One of the ladies made a photo booth with the neatest props ever. My girls had a lot of fun in the booth.

 

Of course we would choose the crude line :)

 

My girl is the one in the middle with the unibrow!

 



 Very clever centerpieces

 

 

Even celebrities showed up!

JK this is one of the Dad's dressed up like Slash

Our dances used to be Father/Daughter but that has changed to include all.

 

The boom box was one of the photo booth props. My Coco really wanted to bring it home but it was promised to the makers daughter. Funny how they want something that looks so old.

I actually had one that looked like this.

 

Glad it was a fun night.

I am working on some "fun" things to keep the girls interest. We may have to move things around with our meeting times etc to accommodate the girls personal lives.

 

 

 

 



Meeting #4

Our 4th meeting was a continuation of the our 3rd meeting where my cookie mom started the Cadette Budgeting badge. I work for a large bank and pulled some material from there on earning money, savings accounts and how they work. I was very surprised at how little these 12 year olds know about money and banking. Maybe I expected to much as one of the moms commented that she didn't learn this until high school. I tried talking to them about ways to earn money and how to save it. I had sample savings deposit slips and withdrawal slips. This was very difficult for them, even with the basic instructions on the slips. Hopefully when they see it again they will have learned something.

I am having a really hard time with the troop this year. I had one quit last week. My daughter is ready to quit. There is way to much drama at our meetings. I could go on and on. When I talked to the mom of the girl that quit, the reason she quit is that it is no longer fun and seems like it is work work work. I had to agree it has not been fun for me either. They are in school all day learning and studying. I don't want them to come to a meeting to sit there and listen to a lecture again.  I have to blame some of that on the journeys and the new badges. I am not a fan of the journeys. My goal for the future is to give them opportunities to experience things they would otherwise not be able to. This will include some "studying and listening" but more hands on experiences. They also requested more crafts and cooking. We may just have to go the old fashioned way of GS. Do things like home keeping, sewing, hospitality, outdoors events, etc.

 

I hope we don't lose anymore but they are at the age that GS is not so cool. I have to find a way to make it cool and make them proud to be a GS in today's society.



Service Project

 

I have chosen Operation Christmas Child supported by Samaritans Purse as our October Service Project. You can go here for more information. There are collection sites all over the country.

 

My family has done this every year for several years now. I love choosing items and thinking about the little girls or boys that will receive them. I have tried to promote it in our troop but usually just 2 or 3 participate. This year I will be giving each girl one item and she will have to get 8 of that item. We will fill 8 boxes, one for each girl in the troop. The troop will purchase the fillers.

Here is a list of items that we will put in our boxes.

Bar soap

toothbrush and toothpaste

washcloth

shampoo

crayons, coloring book, pencils, notepad

hard candy

doll, ball, jumprope

hair brush, hair tyes

 

I will add little things I can pick up at the dollar spot or dollar store. We will use the plastic shoe boxes from Walmart that are .97 cents each. That way they have a sturdy box to keep. We will also include a letter and photo in each box.

 

It will be a fun meeting filling boxes and discussing how we are doing a good turn!!