Adventures in Girl Scouting

A Tale of Two Spiders

Warning!  Post contains spiders! I took my girls for our fall camping kickoff last week, a day after our first meeting of the year!  They were so, so excited, and so was I;  I managed to reserve a campsite that we all love at our local Girl Scout camp, the weather was supposed to be beautiful, and most of my girls have some camping experience now. However, once we arrived you would have thought we

Things I learned at Girl Scout Camp

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,