I have to admit I am already sick of cookies
luckily i have an amazing cookie mom so i don't have
to do much of anything except with my girl
the problem may be
that my spouse and i have over indulged in the cookies
as cadettes my girls seem to be having more trouble
getting in those pre sales and even cookie booths are
not as easy as when we were brownies or even juniors
people seem to have a misconception that girl scouts are
just little cute girls 8 and under
our first cookie booth was this past weekend and we sold
over 100 boxes but just in my 2 hour shift there were more
people that past on by than stopped to purchase.
1 more booth sale and we will be done for this year.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
JAMAICA
Saturday we held our World Thinking Day Event.
Our troop represented Jamaica
our booth
2 of our girls did the flag ceremony and said hello in
native Jamaican
Jamaica SWAP beach in a bag, sand drink umbrella
sea shells and a label
Besties
Haiti- really cute booth, the leader had spent
a while there studying and had lots of authentic items
France was such a cute booth with little Brownie girls
saying Bonjour
England with their very own Queen.
The leader had made a red telephone booth
from duct tape that was brilliant!!!
Mexico- the table cloth, sombrero's, and little dolls were
actually mine and the leader had borrowed sometime
ago. She got more use out of them than i have.
I bought them on our honey moon to use as
table decor for special mealtimes. I think I did that once in 13 years.
Hmong dancers came and performed for us.
they did a harvest garden dance
I loved this photo of this Daisy handing out
drinks for Nicaragua. Precious
It was a fun but tiring day traveling to so many countries.
I did ask one of our service unit leaders to allow us
to pick our country earlier in the year
so that we have more time to plan and prepare.
We picked in January for a February event.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
FOOD DRIVE
Our troop held a food drive on Saturday to collect food for Girl Scout Families in need.
I was so proud of my girls, they stood for 4 hours in front of our local market asking for donations. Our community is AWESOME! We had probably 10 carts full of stuff in just 4 hours. Awesome!!
A local church allowed us to set up and Sunday Girl Scout families will come fill their cupboards with groceries.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
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.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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.
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