{"id":994,"date":"2006-09-21T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2006-09-21T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T02:42:00","slug":"on-my-honor-i-will-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"“On my honor, I will try…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went to the Girl Scouts organizational meeting tonight with my daughter. I had mentioned to her several times over the course of the last few months that girl scouts would be fun, but I had of course totally blanked on it until mentioned it today, and thank God she did, because the meeting went GREAT.
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\nThe girls went off to a different part of the media center (the meeting was in a school library) with several Senior girl scouts (high school aged) who led them in songs and made bracelets with them. They had a good time running around and singing and such while the grownups talked.<\/p>\n

It looks like we’d have 17 Brownies (my kid’s age classification) in her troop, which is a big troop. Troops usually max out at about 12. As we parents were all sitting and chatting and eyeing each other to figure out which of us was going to be the poor sucker who wound up leading the troop, the meeting organizer mentioned that we had a woman here who didn’t have kids, but came specifically to be a leader. 17 Brownie parents’ hands shot up into the air and started waving wildly as we shouted for her to come over to us. Forget the Daisies and the Juniors, she was ours! Mwahahahahaaaa! So we’ve got a bundle of energy who recently graduated from college, plus about five of us who volunteered to be co-leaders or help out in the troop. Yay!<\/p>\n

But the best part was when a little girl who came in late ran up to me and said, “Hi, Emily’s Mommy!” Yep, one of her school friends is a Brownie in the same troop. She ran over and played with Emily, mainly by chasing her around the room. So right away, there’s a familiar face.<\/p>\n

And for me, the best part of that best part was near the end of the meeting, when I told the new leader that my daughter is mildly autistic, and that it shouldn’t be any kind of problem because she’s in a regular class and is a sweet kid, but that I was planning on being in the troop for at least the first few meetings just to be sure everybody was comfortable with everyone else. Emily’s friend’s mom chimed in with, “That’s true, Emily’s a sweet girl, she fits in great. She’s not any kind of problem.” She continued to affirm that yes, my daughter did well with the class last year (they’re in different classrooms this year).<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t know what kind of contact this mom may have had with the classroom, but at least this means that her daughter wasn’t coming home saying, “You won’t believe what Emily did today!” It was really great to hear from an independent source who was backing me up and saying that Emily’s capable of handling this stuff. The leader, for the record, seemed to take it in stride.<\/p>\n

Emily is totally psyched about being a girl scout. And her eyes were as big as saucers when my husband mentioned that there was a uniform. She loves that stuff.<\/p>\n

Bi-weekly meetings will start in mid-October. Neither I nor my girl can wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Went to the Girl Scouts organizational meeting tonight with my daughter. I had mentioned to her several times over the course of the last few months that girl scouts would be fun, but I had of course totally blanked on it until mentioned it today, and thank God she did, because the meeting went GREAT.<\/p>\n","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\/994"}],"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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}