Daisy Grace

Today Grace attended her first Girl Scout Meeting!  This has been a long time coming as we had attempted to register her here in town for Girl Scouts this past September only to learn that there was a good chance that there may not be a Kindergarten Daisy troop formed.  After hearing that we headed over to another town to see about registering her there only to have the people walk away from us upon hearing that we were a homeschool family.  We decided to give up on signing her up for Daisies and instead chose to go the 4-H route.  The club that she was a part of folded due to low enrollment, and after we went to Disney on Ice with our friends it reignited her interest in being a Daisy. 

Since the troop option was clearly not going to work out for her, and having learned that there was infact a group of homeschool Girl Scouts that gather a couple of times a month to do activities together, go on field trips and just give the girls the chance to come together as an unofficial troop we decided to give that a try.  She is registered as what is called a "Juliette", meaning that she is not part of an official troop and that she works on badges and things on her own while having all the other benefits of being a Girl Scout.  The other Juliettes in the troop are anywhere from Daisy level on up.  I love that this option is bringing girls of all ages together! 

From the moment that we arrived at the local Girl Scout store to buy her tunic, petals and handbook she has been so excited and anxiously waiting for her first meeting.  To pass the time to meeting day she asked if she could earn her petals. She loves to hear each story, complete the activities and see the flower on her tunic grow!  Finally, the much anticipated first meeting day had arrived!  She got ready and happily bopped out to the car.  We arrived at the meeting and she quickly and easily got settled.  Emma and I then headed over to the location where the parents and siblings were hanging out while the girls were in their meeting.  We had a great time, but couldn't help but wonder how Grace was doing.  Around 11:00am we had to get going (since today happened to be a Crickets day too) and Em and I went into the meeting room to get Grace who was sitting with her Girl Scout friends listening to a story.  I walked over to let her know we needed to leave and she reluctantly came.  She said good-bye to her leader (who was super sweet and said what a great addition Grace was to the group) and we went on our way.  As we walked (and Grace skipped) to the car she said to me: "Mama, I love being a Daisy and I can't wait to be a Brownie!  When do I get to go back?!"   Luckily, she won't have to wait long as they have a field trip to a veterinarian planned for next week!