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After our delegate meeting a few weeks back, I spoke with a board member on the way out. Board members help bring in the money for Girl Scout councils to put it simply. I asked about that aspect, and she said that she has to get across to whatever company or organization about how much of an impact Girl Scouts has in this world by creating leaders, women of distinction, etc. (I’m paraphrasing a lot, but you get the picture). So after we finish speaking, I start thinking about this on the way home. How do you get across to people what kind of impact Girl Scouts has in girls’ and women’s lives? Continue reading
So hey, what’s on my reading list you ask? Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, 11th edition. Woo weee! Side note: I’m also reading Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut, but that’s a different topic and has nothing to do with Girl Scouts. I guess. I’m serving as a service unit delegate in my council, and while reading through our by-laws and the Girl Scout constitution, I realized that I really had no idea how an official meeting is run and what all of the terms truly mean. Sure, you kind of act like you do if you have a casual meeting with any organization, but who knows this stuff? And who trudges through 716 pages of parliamentary procedure? Apparently I do. At this point, I’m about halfway through, and the meeting is tomorrow. I shoulda gotten the condensed or the Parliamentary Rules for Dummies version. Oh well. But I did find some online basics that I can at least print out. I’ve read enough to hopefully have a better understanding than I did before. Plus, we are supposed to have training in the morning for us newbies, so maybe I’m just being an overachiever. 
For dinner on our camping trip, the girls picked Tacos in a Bag. It was a big hit, and it’s perfect for a young troop because there’s really not much cooking other than the ground beef. You could even cook the meat ahead of time and just warm it up over either a fire or a propane stove. 
So after finally gathering up the courage and waiting for my girls to get old enough, we took our 2nd year Brownies (and one junior) on a “dress rehearsal” camping trip this past weekend to Camp Mary Elizabeth. I call it a dress rehearsal, because not only was it most of the girls’ first time camping, it was also my first time planning one. I’ve been on many a camping trip in my life, but I never planned one before. I took Sleep Out training three years ago and a refresher course at last year’s Mountain Magic, so I was pretty excited and nervous at the same time. But if things just absolutely fall apart, we have CME’s lodge as a backup.