DDA Chapter 6

[Tammi67]

Janet - the furniture you've chosen is lovely.

Deb - great pictures.

Vicki - glad you made it home safely.

Elin - what a wonderful daughter you have.

 

[Tammi67]

Jennifer, I took the liberty of making a stick family shirt for you.

That's cute!

 

[UP Disney]

We are going to Shopko. Becky says that they have the "lowest prices" of the year. She also gets a discount because she works there.

 

[Tammi67]

More prayers & needed for my family. Remember the cousin I said had cancer. Well, we got more details. She had a biopsy and we are waiting to here if it is cancer. My uncle got the message garbled. So prayers & that it is NOT cancer.

However, the reason for more prayers & is said Uncle from above is having some serious health issues and is currently in intensive care. So prayers & that they find out what is causing his problems.

You got it!

 

[Tammi67]

Good morning.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Janet, I love it!

Janet - the furniture looks great! We need new furniture. But WDW is better than new furniture. Besides, I would need something claw-proof.

I made it home safe and sound. It was raining (sprinkling) most of the way in the Lower Peninsula. The roads were wet but not slippery. Within 10 minutes of crossing into the U.P., the skies cleared and the roads were dry all the way home. Just wanted to stop in and let you all know I'm here.

Glad you made it home safely!

Deb - thanks for posting all the pictures. I love Nick's bedroom. I know he will too. And Colby looks so grown up! Wow!

Looks good, Deb!

How sweet! glad you were able to enjoy the evening with your daughter.

Elin, it sounds like you had a nice evening!

Vicki- Sending to your uncle and cousin.

Ditto!

Our annual Girl Scout Council meeting is scheduled for next Saturday. I got an invitation stating that I'm getting an award. I've already received most of the awards so I'm not sure what this one is. I'm still not sure if I can make the meeting.

Congrats on your award! I hope you feel better today!

 

[tink2020]

Elin, I think the biggest difference is that each day we're drawing a bit closer to "the end", which means stopping work, then meeting these girls, then feeling better again!

Vicki, what is Shopko?

 

[Blueeyes101817]

More prayers & needed for my family. Remember the cousin I said had cancer. Well, we got more details. She had a biopsy and we are waiting to here if it is cancer. My uncle got the message garbled. So prayers & that it is NOT cancer.

However, the reason for more prayers & is said Uncle from above is having some serious health issues and is currently in intensive care. So prayers & that they find out what is causing his problems.

Absolutely!

Vicki, what is Shopko?

I was going to ask the same thing!


Good morning all! Im headed camera shopping
Have a great day!

 

[PNO4TE]

More prayers & needed for my family. Remember the cousin I said had cancer. Well, we got more details. She had a biopsy and we are waiting to here if it is cancer. My uncle got the message garbled. So prayers & that it is NOT cancer.

However, the reason for more prayers & is said Uncle from above is having some serious health issues and is currently in intensive care. So prayers & that they find out what is causing his problems.

you have them

 

[PNO4TE]

Our annual Girl Scout Council meeting is scheduled for next Saturday. I got an invitation stating that I'm getting an award. I've already received most of the awards so I'm not sure what this one is. I'm still not sure if I can make the meeting.

could someone in the "know" let you know how big a deal this is??

 

[PNO4TE]

Elin - what a wonderful daughter you have.

thank you, Tammi. She certainly made my week.

 

[PNO4TE]

Janet - the furniture looks great! We need new furniture. But WDW is better than new furniture. Besides, I would need something claw-proof.

I hear you on this, Elizabeth. Our couch needs to be replaced desperately. It looks horrible, and I have it covered with sheets. But as long as Button spends 90% of her time on it it will remain where it is in its decrepit condition.

 

[ReAnSt]

Our annual Girl Scout Council meeting is scheduled for next Saturday. I got an invitation stating that I'm getting an award. I've already received most of the awards so I'm not sure what this one is. I'm still not sure if I can make the meeting.

Unfortunately for the delegate meeting only 30 people had RSVPed but about 60 people showed up, so we should have left all the walls in the room open. Also the church still had the heat on and we had no way to turn it off, it was 76 degrees yesterday. Me in a business suit with a possible fever,

Congrats on whatever award you are getting.

Our annual meeting is not until May 21st. We have two Gold Award ceremonies yet, one in April and one in May, Our awards and Service unit team recognition is in June. The awards are not even being approved until the next board meeting, which is the annual meeting which is cutting it close in my opinion.

We also have one more Take the Lead Honoring Women of Distinction event in April. We honor outstanding women in the community, the older girls spend time with them and then present them at the event, younger girls are involved in other aspects of the night, like singing, flag ceremony, greeting people. It is a fund raising gala event. This will be the 3rd one, as they are scattered geographically around the council.

These events in addition to United Way and my service unit end of year events and I will be galaed out. Plus my waistline can not expand at all, it needs to shrink or my clothing will not fit.

My taxes are in the envelopes to mail. I had to redo some sections several times, because they kept being incorrect.

Several out of town firetrucks, just flew by. Not sure where they were headed. My parents also called to say a road was shut down. Hope its nothing serious.

I am not going to the baseball game nobody wanted to go with me. I feel fine but not 100%.

Hope you all have great Sunday's or Sundaes.

 

[lovesdumbo]

Tia-congrats on booking your trip!!!!!

Janet-love your funiture!

Deb-love Nicks room!

Debbie-love your new design!

and to everyone!

Lizzie & I had great time at the International Night mother/daughter girl scout thing on Friday night. Each troop had a country. They did a dispaly board on their country and had food. It was bit like the Food & Wine Fest at Epcot without the wine. Then we went into the gym for folk dancing. My shoulder was killing me when I woke up Saturday-must have the rowing song. I had surgery on my left shoulder years ago and my right one had been bad. It got better when I was pregnant with Lizzy and was good for years but bothers me every now and then lately. Thankfully it responded to drugs pretty good yesterday.

I made the kids all sleep pants yesterday. I think Lizzy's comment was the biggest compliment: "Mommy, how did you make them look so real?" I had purchased the wrong size elastic so Lizzy & I went to JoAnn's last night to buy elastic and 7 different patriotic fabrics to make her a patchwork twirl skirt.

DH just took the kids to his Mom's. I'm off to go make Lizzy's non Disney shirt and once I've practiced on that to make Emma's Cars shirt and shorts. I want to pack my stuff for my Owner's Locker too.

The kids all wore their new PJ's last night. I'll do laundry and post a photo later. Hopefully photos of two cute A Line tops too.

 

[ReAnSt]

could someone in the "know" let you know how big a deal this is??

Every year a Girl Scout council has an annual meeting. The council is a larger geographic grouping of Girl Scouting, typically a few counties combined together. Although with the merger some are entire states.

The annual meeting is for the entire board of directors, all the delegates, which is one or more representative from every service unit or neighborhood.

The service unit/neighborhood is the division that a council is broken into. It can be a school district, a few school districts, or some other break down by geographics or some other break down. The service units are a group of troops of multiple age levels. So some Daisy troops, some Brownie, Junior, Cadette, Senior. The troop volunteers get together and have service unit meetings to get information from council but also to plan events for the girls. Girl Scouts of Eastern PA has 124 service units, that range in size from about 100 girls to 500 girls, with a total girl membership of around 46,000 girls and 14,000 adult vollunteers. The larger service units have more delegate representation then the smaller units.

At the annual meeting the Board of directors, delegates, staff, and any other Girl Scouts who want to visit can attend. This is the largest formal gathering that most Girl Scout councils hold. At the annual meeting, everyone is given a report of all the successes for the year, information about the strategic plan for the future of the council is given. Also information from National Girl Scout organization is presented, such as changes and things coming in the pipeline. Some key business pieces will probably be presented and the delegates get to approve or deny the legislature on the floor.

At last years meeting the largest piece of business on the floor was the merger of the three councils.

It also appears that at Vicki's Girl Scout council the annual awards are presented at the same event as the Annual meeting. The awards range from Outstanding Leader and Volunteer which are lower level awards to higher level awards like the Honor Pin/ Honor Pin 2 and Appreciation pin. At the lower level awards it can just be service to a troop, or service unit at the higher levels it involves service to multiple service units, or volunteer work toward furthering the council or multiple councils goals. The larger awards are from multiple years of continued service to service units or council or councils..

There are also numeral guards for the number of years as a member. Or years of service pins for the number of years someone was a volunteer as an adult. The larger numbers such as 40 years of membership numeral guard or 30 years or more of service pins are presented at our Annual Awards dinner. It is quite amazing to see someone receive a numeral guard for 75 years or more. Especially when they are still actively volunteering with the girls.

Also some Girl Scout Councils have their own awards in which the award is in honor of someone who did outstanding work for the council and volunteers who provide similar outstanding service can receive this award. Our council has an award for a young volunteer under 29 who does outstanding service. We also have an award for a volunteer that has provided outstanding volunteerism for 40 years or more to multiple service units or toward furthering the goal of the council.

The annual meeting and awards are the largest uniform events a council has with volunteer attendance.

Sorry for the lenghty explanation, hope it makes sense.

 

[PNO4TE]

Hope you all have great Sunday's or Sundaes.

or both! hope you get back to 100%, Becky.

 

[PNO4TE]

I made the kids all sleep pants yesterday. I think Lizzy's comment was the biggest compliment: "Mommy, how did you make them look so real?"

myBob and I chuckled at this!! We love the perception of kids.

 

[PNO4TE]

The annual meeting and awards are the largest uniform events a council has with volunteer attendance.

Sorry for the lenghty explanation, hope it makes sense.

It makes sense, Becky. And I should have known you would be "in the know"...

But I must not have made my question to Vicki clear... I wondered if someone who is responsible for her award could let her know if it is something big enough to warrant taking time from work to attend.

 

[KMH1]

Happy Birthday Molly!



We hope you had a wonderful birthday party!

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[PNO4TE]

(Thanks for the reminder, Amy!)

MOLLY!​