Examples of the”swaps” my Brownie troop will be making today. The top campfire is triangles of felt glue-sticked to a barrette back. We may add logs in the form of twigs which the girls scavenge, weather permitting.
The bottom s’more is craft foam glue-sticked together, with a face drawn on the foam marshmallow. They’ll be attached to pin backs which already have adhesive on them. I found these craft ideas at the link from yesterday.
I find it’s a good idea to make one example ahead of time so they have a point of reference. They’ll naturally jump off and do their own thing, which is good, but it’s handy to see what you’re jumping off from.
So yesterday my mother…um… I’m going to go with “encouraged” me to get to bed at a reasonable hour. We made a deal wherein I promised to go to bed by 10 if she promised to not gallivant all over town but to REST that day. You may recall that she just had surgery. Nothing slows this woman down.
True story about my mom: After she gave birth to me, her doctor walked into her hospital room and found her standing up with her palms flat on the floor. “I just wanted to see if I could still do it,” she said. Her idea of recovery time is different than the rest of us mere mortals’.
However, she is nothing if not a woman of her word, and so she e-mailed me this morning to tell me she’d lived up to her part of the bargain, how’d I do?
I was in bed by 10, as promised. Then the cat, who is on a diet, started begging for food at 3am. And my daughter got up at 5:30. But I was in bed by 10!
Even though my sleep was broken up into little chunks, I really do feel better. Leave it to Mom to know what’s best for her girl.
At right: Emily and her grandparents at a school function, 2006.
