permission slips

have handed out cookie slips/first box badge/collected permission slips from Mackenzie, Morgan, Kayla, & Cortney.

cookie order sheets

Lindsay, Moriah, Breanna, Jazmine, Dominique, Morrisa, & Katie have all picked up their cookie order sheets & have signed parent permission slips. All but Moriah have their first box patch (I forgot). Cookie Sales run November 1-30.

Flat Emily & Flat Niamh Are Here!

they arrived today from West Roxbury, MA!

Niamh's journal
"Hi I am six. I am homeschooled. I like art. I like French. My name is Irish, it sounds like Neeve."

Nikolia's journal
"My name is Nikolia. I am 7 years old. We live in Boston. I have 3 brothers and sisters. We home-school like everyone else in our Brownies group. We had a lot of fun last year in Brownies. My sisters & I sold 1000 boxes. My favorite food is Pastitsio. My favorite thing to do is play with my baby brother. I like to swim, run, and play piano. Have fun with my Emily!"

Katie's Flat Stacie is home

she was visiting a Troop in West Roxbury, MA.
She stayed with Alexa who is 6 years old. She loves to read. She likes mysteries. Boston is where she lives.
There is a picture of Flat Karly & Alexa in a bikeathon of some type. They were number 101.
She also stayed with Sasa who is 7. She took Flat Karly to Davis Mega Maze and President Kennedy's birthplace which is in her neighborhood in "Brookiine, Massachusetts".
They had lots of fun!!! She sent a picture of her & Flat Karly at JFK's birthplace, & a postcard from the maze.

cookie meeting

Katie & I picked up our cookie stuff at Princeton, sending out letters tomorrow telling everyone I have the stuff, I'll be home all nite Wednesday, & if that doesn't work, they can call to arrange something else. We sell Nov. 1-30, orders have to be to Sara by Dec. 4th.
Got returned checks from bank, KC did cash our membership check, so they must've "found" our "lost" registration forms.

journeys cont.

I screwed up & am one Brownie book short, so will order that along with a lot of cool new patches I just know Katie will want on her Girl Scout quilt that I promise to start as soon as I get a new sewing machine, can't get mine to work right & it was a cheap one on sale, so will buy another cheap one on sale...got a lot of sewing out of the last one!

Journeys

I had bought one each of the Brownie, Junior, & Cadette Journey books with troop money, thinking I could make copies for the various activities since the books are $7 each. Then the Council bought each troop the book/guide set, so we got another Junior & Brownie Journey book. Last nite Katie & I were looking at the books to see how we wanted to start with it, she had so much fun reading the Junior book, & there are lots of cool fill in areas & scrapbook type stuff, so I ordered a book for each girl. (had to order 7 more books).
Thinking we'll split into 2 groups, Brownies for an hour, Juniors/Cadette for an hour. The leader book says you can do seven 1 hr. sessions, but they don't have to do everything to get the badge set. Will wait till the new books arrive, then set up a meeting. We usually have 1 meeting a month, with the exceptions of dance practices when they decide to dance somewhere. That would make the "journey" take the rest of the year. We usually have a party meeting with games & crafts for Xmas & Easter, so that gets rid of 2 hours...& will have to vote & see if they want to do the Mom & Me Tea again...several of the moms thought it was a lot of fun (It wasn't just me!)
I need to finish reading the leader guides.

Mom t-shirts

Jill, Marcy, Deb, & Deb all have their spiffy red Mercer Girl Scout mom t-shirts, artfully made by Melanie at M&M Apparel in Princeton. All are paid for. Thanks, moms!

Girl Scout Ghostly Gala

Morgan was a punk rock star, Kelsie was "Ghostly Bones", Breanna an evil evil little witch, Mackenzie a punk star, Dominique a black cat, Morrisa Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Cortney a Rose Maiden, Jazmine Hannah Montana, Rayne a scary evil ghost, Kayla a Red Hot Devil Glamour Girl, Katie a punk goth angel, & Nicole a young lady with a scary face all recieved costume trophies.
we did experiments: That Balloon Won't Pop (it actually did pop!); Marvel at the Magic Money Clip; The Potato Plummet; Shorten a Stack; and we made our own bouncy balls.
Games: costume parade; "dunk" for apples; Monster Mash dancing; ghost story; horrible haunted house; Cat Eyes Hike; Gross Food Guesses, & we made halloween swaps.
We posed for pictures with Brownie the Dog & Flat Alice. We read about Carly's adventures in Maryland, she went home with Breanna & Jazmine for a visit. They will bring her back next meeting for someone else to host.
Snack was "Make Your Own Popcorn"...we had optional toppings: chocolate chips, gummy worms, grated cheese, sugar & cinnamon.
Katie did a super job on her Horrible Haunted House. Even though Moriah couldn't attend because she had a family trip, she was in the ghostly pictures. Poor Lindsay had the flu so couldn't come.

Carly is Home!

she returned from Maryland today. They made her a bed, sent tons of souveniors & pictures of her adventures...she stayed with Ms Tabi, Chyanne & Ty. Ty wanted to take Carly to school on his first day, but she flew up on a shelf!
Carly went to a Longaberger basket party, The Centre at Salisbury (mall), Salisbury Zoo, a Troop 1108 meeeting where they worked on the Girl Scouting in the USA badge, Ocean City where they played in the sand on the beach & walked in the water, went to a college football game, it rained for the Girl Scout campout, so they camped in the house, did a library tour with the Girl Scout Troop, & now Carly is home!

a visiting Stacie!

Alice arrived today from 1st Shenley Rainbows. She has very good manners and always follows the Girl Guide Law so shouldn't be any trouble. She likes to go to Girl Guiding Events & loves to be in photos with other Girl Guides.
Their troop has 20 girls aged 5-7. There are 2 leaders, Rainbow Owl and Snowy Owl, 1Unit Helper called Sunbeam, 1 Young Leader called Lunar and a Rainbow Helper called Lightening (from the Guide section.)
They are an active unit & meet every week. They work towards different badges and have lots of fun.
She lives in Milton Keynes, it is a large town in South East England, about 45 miles north-west of London. Milton Keynes is in the borough of Buckinghamshire. there are around 184,506 people that live in Milton Keynes. there are a lot of shops and a dry ski slope here. There is also The National Badminton Centre where their Olympic team train and MK Dons Milton Keynes Football team.
They have a lot of rain in the United Kingdom and snow in January and February.

1st Shenley Rainbows
37 Avington
Great Holm
Milton Keynes
buckinghamshire
MK8 9DG
UK

leaders meeting

I mailed in the 10 membership forms with checks...they are lost in KC. I have to make copies & get them to Linda, & call the bank to see if my check has went thru yet...horrors!
cookie meeting Oct. 26 2 p.m.

School Variety Show

traditionally, the Mercer Girl Scouts dance at Mercer Homecoming & the School Variety Show. We only had 2 girls dance this year, our sisters Breanna & Jazmine, & they were *G*O*O*D*. There was a one act rule this year, & the other girls decided to do other things...Kelsie & Kayla had solos, the 2nd grade girls (Morgan, Cortney, Morrisa) made up their own dance, Katie & Moriah danced with MJK, Dominique & Lindsay watched the show, & Mackenzie goes to school at Lineville, so couldn't dance.
Kevin picked up the Girl Scout Mom shirts @ M&M Apparel.

more SWAPS

I signed up for IOWA for the All-States Swap Database II--used the themes of National Balloon Classic in Indianola, The Butter Cow at the Iowa State Fair, & Adventureland @ Altoona.
there were still 7 open states the last time I checked, if they don't get selected, someone will have to do them.
I am kind of addicted to making swaps. And the more we send in, the more the girls will have to split up...I've figured that with 3 batches sent in, we'll get 153 swaps divided by 12 girls, 11 swaps each.

It's in the mail....

today I mailed :

1.)the penpal letters & swaps to our newest batch of pen pals, Troop 67 in Rochester, NY. {we haven't heard from the 2 troops we had sent letters to).

2.) the registration forms I had. Will mail in Moriah & Morgan's when I get them.

3.)a letter to all the girls about the Variety Show @ School & the Girl Scout Ghostly Gala October 17th.

Girl Scout Meeting

Jazmine, Breanna, Morrisa, Dominique, Lindsay, Moriah, & Katie met on a brisk autumn evening at Mercer City Park, where they did the Girl Scout Law with motions; the Girl Scout Promise; voted that Breanna, Morrisa, Jazmine, & Dominique would like to dance in the School Variety Show next Friday; passed around Morrisa's Flat Stacie that (finally) came home; passed around Brownie the Dog & all her things that she is visiting from Texas with; wrote pen pal letters to Troop 67 in Rochester, New York; made basketball swaps for us & her our penpals, & took a walk around the walking trail. Breanna & Jazmine will be out of town the weekend I planned on having the Girl Scout Ghostly Gala, so will plan on Friday, Oct. 17th.