Painting Pottery

 Yesterday after lunch the Girl Scout troop gathered at PYOP Studio for our first meeting of 2015. We leaders thought it would be a fun way to kick off the second half of the troop year. Everyone arrived excited to be back and even more excited to be spending an afternoon painting pottery. Mugs and seats were chosen and a hush fell over the group. 

The girls were so focused that you could hear a pin drop. The thirteen of them worked this way for 45 minutes straight. It was amazing! 

On our drive over Emma decided that she would paint our family on her mug. Above she is working on painting Grace. 

 Grace decided she would be painting a sweet spring tree scene. Since she had lots of room left after her tree was painted she decided to add a flower and a cloud. 

 Such focus. 

 Emma's finished mug. It will now get a clear glaze over it and then spend some time in the kiln. We pick the pieces up in a week. We cannot wait to see the finished products!

 Isn't Grace's tree just so sweet? The pink, though pale looking, should fire up to a lovely spring pink. This mug is just so Grace. I think we may have to head back and have her paint three more- one of this tree in each season. xo

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!