Memories, Opinions, Alien Biscuits, Strongly Worded Letters, OFFICIAL Scarves, and Some Other Stuff
Enough of this living in the past! I received a welcome surprise this morning when I opened up the August issue of our local city’s newspaper. The Simpsonville Sentinel featured an article about our service unit’s City Slickers summer camp…
Here’s another favorite newspaper clipping from Troop 20. I don’t have a date for this one, but I’m guessing it’s from 1984 or 1985 since Barbara is in it. And how she got to be the one dressed up, I…
August 10th is National S’mores Day. Yay! Here’s an excerpt from a GSUSA article that also features some more s’mores (see what I did there) recipes: National S’Mores Day is August 10, and as we all know, s’mores hold a…
I went through some of our family pictures and pulled a few pictures of our World’s Fair trip. I must have really made a big deal about the van not being in the newspaper’s photo, because here’s one that somebody…
We’re nearing the end of summer, but with the start of troop meetings, you may still be getting outside to do some activities. Poison ivy is still out there waiting to getcha! It’s always kind of funny to me how…
I believe of all of my Girl Scout memories, this has to be my favorite one. I hope you find it as entertaining as I do. I tell it much better in person than I do in writing, so just…
One of my favorite parts of being a leader is eavesdropping on girls’ conversations while I’m driving them somewhere. They may think I’m just passively keeping my eyes on the road and tuning them out, but au contraire girls! I’m…
During our City Slickers camp, the Cadettes created a promo video for Girl Scouts. They did an awesome job! Additional edit: Here’s the radio spot they created:
We just finished our service unit camp called City Slickers – and it went really well. While I had volunteered before for various gopher duties and car pools, this was my first year being a leader and planning out the…
This will be the last post for a while – I’ve got City Slickers camp the rest of this week, and then I’ll be in and out for the rest of the summer until school starts! Maybe I’ll fit one…