I've been writing in this blog sporadically for over 3 years now. My sister, Lynne, is moving to Montreal next month so I'm going to start writing at least weekly to share our times with her.
This week:
I attended a Girl Scout Service Unit meeting (organization of the 40 troop leaders from the nearby schools). I am on the Service Unit team as the Event Coordinator. We're planning a big "World Thinking Day" event in February and a Cookie Rally before that. I'm trying to get a troop to plan a father/daughter event in the spring.
At work, I've been going to lots of meetings, as usual. The development process we've started using, called Scrum, dictates daily 15 minute meetings but I can't seem to keep them below 30 min. with my 8 members. Today I'm taking my recertification for First Aid/CPR. I am part of the Emergency Response Team at work. I figured I'd volunteer since I have to be certified already to be able to take Girl Scouts anyplace. They're bringing in a trainer and it'll be from 12:30-6.
I've been working with other Girl Scout leaders this week to find places for my troop to volunteer and help other troops. They're going to earn the Bronze Award (think Eagle Project for this age/sex) and as part of that need to help with younger girls at three meetings. Since I have 15 girls I've been scrambling to find 45 places for them to help out. It's been interesting working with the other leaders. Some are ultra-organized and some fly by the seat of their pants.
Tacie has had a lot of projects this week at school. It is interesting that all her grades are posted online by the teachers very regularly. Sometimes I know what a certain test or project grade is before she does. Bruce took her to the doctor on Wednesday to check her arm. The cast had come off 3 weeks ago and she's wearing a removeable brace. The pins will stay in until spring break or next summer as it'll require surgery to remove them. Tacie and her Girl Scout friends are all excited that next week is the Premiere of the movie, "Twilight". We're all going to see it Friday night before we go out of town.
Talia is so active this term. I've been taking her early to school because she's an alternate on the News Team that does the morning announcements on the closed circuit TV every day. She's enjoyed that. She's also in chorus which practices every Monday and Art club which meets alternate Thursdays. She also just made the Recorder Ensemble and will be performing with that group. She's started her own book club with several special friends. They started reading "Series Unfortuante Events" but they decided the books were just too sad. Now she's reading the Unicorn Chronicles and is totally in love with unicorns. This is the biggest book she's ever read with over 400 pages. In addition to all of that, she got straight A's in the first term for the first time so I bought her another American Girl doll to celebrate.
