Yesterday was Maggie’s last Brownie meeting of the year. She was very sad to have it over, and is already looking forward to next year’s activities. They’ve been finishing up activities for the Try-Its they’ve been working on. Maggie loves both the activities themselves and the badges she gets to wear on her vest. In a couple weeks, we’ll have her Court of Awards and she will get more patches to add to her collection.
Brownies lasts for 3 years, so the vest she has is currently large enough for her and Katie to wear at the same time. On the back, she gets patches from some of the other Girl Scout activities she’s participated in during the year. We’ve had Father-Daughter camping, where she and Stagg spent the weekend in a pop up camper in North Georgia and Mother-Daughter camping, where Maggie and I camped in a cabin in South Georgia. She has a patch from the Girl Scout Day Camp she attended last year, and one for the Camporee where I helped her troop leader manage 6 first grade girls for a weekend of camping. Her back is becoming a map of Girl Scouting fun times, and she is happy to see the memories.
This was her first year selling Girl Scout Cookies, and although she made the minimum to get that badge, she wasn’t overly interested in selling more to earn more of the prizes. Initially, she had a goal of 500 boxes so she could earn the iPod Shuffle she has been pining for, but her interest in going door to door was simply not great enough to get the boxes sold.
Next year will be a new Girl Scout year, and I think we are both looking forward to it. Rumor has it that the girls will be taking a little more initiative in choosing which Try-Its the troop earns. I’m not sure, but I have a feeling the one Maggie chooses will have something to do with animals.
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I guess I need to buy more boxes next year then. Oh darn…