Changing the world, one girl at a time
I haven’t written in several weeks because I’ve been so busy with Girl Scout Camp! I volunteered to be a unit leader at 2 different camps, and aside from the sheer exhaustion following the experience, I learned some definite lessons. During the overnight, you need more food than you think you need. I found that the meals provided by organizers fell way short of myself and the capability of my little plague of locusts,
There is a mysterious bag full of random recyclables, lids, and plastic straws, hidden somewhere in your kitchen. You have stashes of to-be-reused plastic zip bags on your desk. Next to your purse, and also in your Girl Scout bin. If you had a penny for each time a parent told you they were “too busy” to do a thing (ANYthing… including respond with a YES or NO to a text), you’d be rich. Not
The first time I took my girls camping, I was in for so many surprises. Of course! At the time my troop consisted of several girls who really spent so much time with me and my daughter, at my house, that I didn’t give a second thought to taking them on an overnight. I did have one girl who was relatively new; but she seemed so enthusiastic I didn’t think it would be an issue.