Random Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else Kinda Like Me 1 Comment 
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Random Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else Kinda Like Me 2 Comments gsusa, OFFICIAL scarf, strongly worded letter
So tonight at 9:30pm, GSUSA announced on Facebook that BIG NEWS is coming tomorrow (Wednesday)! This set the GS Facebook world abuzz with everyone wondering what it could be? My cynical side says it’ll probably be some commercial partnership, but then my crazy side gets all excited like it’s Christmas Eve thinking of all of the possibilities! Oh GSUSA, you big tease! Continue reading
Traditional Stuff No Comments camp mary elizabeth, camp wabak, outdoors, patches, songs, summer camp, the 80s, traditions
This past weekend my youngest daughter and I attended the Girls Weekend Out/Me & My Gal session at Camp WaBak. It’s a one night/one day sampler type session to give the parents and girls a brief taste of camp life. I’ve gone two years with each daughter making this the 4th time I’ve gone (and the last time). I did it hoping that my girls would want to go to camp and as a way to ease them into it. I hope it will work with my youngest (we’ll find out next year!) but it didn’t really sink in with my oldest. I guess every kid is different. When I was growing up, I always dreamed about going to a resident camp and even being a counselor, but we couldn’t afford it, so I stuck with the summer day camps my council put on. They were fun, but it wasn’t the same as being able to get away from home for an extended period. There definitely would have been some wacky hijinks at Camp Northstar if I had been there. Instead, I lived vicariously through the 80s run of camp movies. Continue reading
Hikes & Outdoors No Comments backpacking, becky, big boy mountain, greenville sc, hiking, outdoors
It’s summer in the South, which means I don’t get to go hiking because it’s so frickin’ humid and hot. (But my husband and I are going to go on July 4th, so we’ll see how that goes!) So instead, I’m going to look back at the hike at Paris Mountain State Park that Becky and I went on in late March. Spring was just about to kick in so it was warm in the sun, but when the wind started blowing, it got pretty chilly. I must have taken my second layer on and off about four times. Continue reading
National Governance, National Operations, Opinions 8 Comments 2004 restructure, alumnae, core business strategy, councils, gsusa, kathy cloninger, serenity now, service unit, tough cookies, traditions
Let’s go on and get it out of the way because I know you sang it too:
Reminiscing 1 Comment athens ga, caroline, gold award, jenny, northeast georgia council, samona, troop 20
Of all of my Girl Scout related memorabilia, the following Proclamation from the Mayor of Athens, GA declaring Sunday, June 11th, 1989 as Girl Scout Gold Award Day is one of my favorites. Continue reading
Experiences as a Leader 7 Comments camp pisgah, cats, encampment, mountain magic, snoring
Note: This post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek and certainly shouldn’t be taken seriously. See the meme on the About Me page for more insight.
If you read the post from April about our service unit’s Encampment this past year, you’ll know that our troop was assigned the Treehouse units at Camp Pisgah during a cold snap. A very cold snap. It dropped down to 32° Friday night and forecasted to drop to 26º Saturday. I made the executive decision to move us to the Lodge where there was heat. Unfortunately, there were also snorers. LOUD ones. Continue reading
Random Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else Kinda Like Me 2 Comments cats
Back in September, I wrote about the passing of my big white cat named Orion, aka “Big Boy.” This past Friday, we said goodbye to our other cat Athena. She was 16. Since I wrote a post about Big Boy, I think it’s only fair that I write one about Athena as well.
Athena came along before Big Boy as a stray and just a few months after my husband and I had gotten married. I had stopped at the front of our neighborhood in the parking lot of a gas station trying to woo a kitten. Turns out the cat was feral, but while I was out there, the attendant came out for a smoke and noticed what I was doing. She asked if I wanted a kitten, and I said yes. Her boyfriend had found one in the parking lot of an auto parts store, and she already had six cats of her own and couldn’t afford another one. I met her at 11pm after she finished her shift, and she handed her over to me. Continue reading
Experiences as a Leader No Comments city slickers, delegate, leader issues, service unit, squirrel, time, time tally, troop stuff
Preface: I just read through this and I am such a nerd. Good Lord.
I’ve mentioned it before, but last year at the end of May, our council asked us to fill out a survey and estimate the number of hours we put toward Girl Scouting. I guessed 300. My husband thought it would be more, so out of curiosity, I used an online app called My Hours to count them. I started at the beginning of October (well, really mid-October and estimated the first half) and measured them through the end of May. Continue reading
Experiences as a Leader, National Operations 4 Comments badges we don't need no stinkin badges, dead horses, girls guides, leader issues, memes, pet peeves
I’ve already covered a pet peeve about the Girls Guide notebooks and how the three additional Skill Building Activity Sets packets barely fit in it. This next pet peeve concerning how the badges are set up in general has been discussed ad nauseam on various GS Facebook groups and town halls and service unit meetings I’m sure, but let’s beat the dead horse some more for posterity’s sake, shall we? I have to share this experience in order to demonstrate to everyone how absurd the current badge system is (in case you’re not already aware of it). Well, that’s not really the reason. I just wanted to vent and get it out of my system. It’s been a long year. Continue reading