{"id":1020,"date":"2006-10-19T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2006-10-19T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T12:37:00","slug":"girl-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night was Emily’s first girl scout meeting. It was still mainly organizational – the girls made foam princess crowns with their names on them to help learn who each other were. As to the activity, the girl scout leader admits that she’s a girly girl, so when she asked what we were interested in learning, I stressed that I hoped we’d get a chance to do some rough and tumble things, since that seems to me to be the core of what girl scouts is. The other moms nodded.<\/p>\n

Some older girl scouts and one of the dads were with the girls, while the leader and other moms, including myself, had a meeting to discuss fees, uniforms, and volunteers. Turnout wasn’t as good as one might hope, with about six to eight girls there. However, that can be chalked up to the fact that e-mail addresses apparently got mangled somehow, so the leader had to call people individually and I don’t know that those folks got as much notice of the meeting. I personally got an e-mail to “lill” at my address instead of “hill.” Fortunately, everything that comes to booboomonkey.com that’s not specifically addressed to my husband comes to me. You can imagine the spam I get from mass mailers trying “accounts” “billing” “admin” etc. at booboomonkey. It’s brutal.
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\nBut I digress! Apparently each troop must have a cookie mom as a matter of life and death. Because no other moron put their hand up, this moron did. So I’m now cookie mom. This means I’ll be opening up a joint checking account with the girl scout troop and handling money. If I recall correctly, it may also mean I’ll be storing boxes of cookies in my house for the girls to pick up and distribute. Now, maybe I’m not the best choice to have a crate of Thin Mints just hanging around the dining room, but I think I can master my willpower for those few days. I’ve also signed up to be an assistant leader, because again, we had to have one. I agreed on the condition that it will be a rotating position. I do know at least one other mom volunteered, and at the original meeting, there was also some interest. Besides, it’ll give me a chance to be sure we get in some non frou-frou pink glittery activities.<\/p>\n

The meeting was from 5:30-7pm, a half hour longer than I thought it would be. Emily’s usually ready to go to bed by 7:30 at the latest. This means that her bedtime on Wednesdays will have to push back. It also means that my Wednesday night knitting group excursions will be cut short and my sanity may suffer. I’ll have to work something out. Last night, Steve could see I was frazzled and encouraged me to go anyway. He put her to bed without me, which is always a little rough on everyone. At about 9:15pm, she popped out of her room and had me sit with her for a minute in bed while she told me a short story about her dolls. This morning she actually got up late and we had to hustle to school. Bedtime’ll be another thing to work out.<\/p>\n

When the kids came back in the room from making their crowns, we all sat and had snacks. The leader made brownies. Apparently she really likes to bake. We volunteered to take turns bringing healthy snacks. We never had snacks when I was a girl scout, but if the meeting’s an hour and a half at dinnertime, it might not be a bad idea.<\/p>\n

As they sat, Emily pointed at the girl next to her and said, “what’s her name?” The other girls looked at her and the noise level dropped for a minute. This made me think that probably, as is her wont, she had been asking this same question of the other girls about a bazillion times while they were meeting. It worries me. However, it’s just the first meeting, there’s going to be some adjusting. Nonetheless, I share my husband’s concern as in this conversation:<\/p>\n

Him:<\/b> “They’re not going to be mean to her, are they?”<\/i>
\nMe:<\/b> “I don’t know. I don’t think so. It’s just the first meeting, everybody’s still getting to know each other.”
\nHim:<\/b> “They’d better not be mean to my little girl. She doesn’t deserve that.”<\/i>
\nMe:<\/b> “I agree. I wouldn’t let that happen. Let’s give it time and see how it goes.”
\nHim:<\/b> “Because if they’re going to be mean to her, I’m going in there and kick some Brownie ASS!”<\/i>
\nMe:<\/b> “Good to know.”<\/p>\n

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Her friend Danielle wasn’t there tonight, but she still had fun. It’s going to take a few meetings for her to get into the routine and calm down so she can focus better. They’re going to start right in earning “Try-It”s, which is the Brownie Lite version of badges, next week. I think they’re starting with “Healthy Habits”<\/a>. I’m going to schedule a time for my mother and me to bring Emily out to the Girl Scout store so we can get a vest. I think she’ll be excited about getting a uniform.
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\nI’m cautious but hopeful. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}