As many of you know I am the Girl Scout Troop Leader for Regan's troop. This was not intentional, even given the "organizing" role I play in many of the other aspects in my life. I really swore I wouldn't, but when they said there would be no troop without a leader I said, what the hell.....I can handle one more hat! lol
Anyways, I am finding the bonus to being the Troop Leader is that I am able to 1, set the schedule to suit our hectic life! Thankfully this has happened to also work for all the other parents - so it's definitely and win/win all around! Secondly, I am able to continue my whole charity/fundraising passion within the troop. Thus, fulfilling the purpose of Girl Scouts and helping our community!! :o) I LOVE it!!
So, for our first fun patch I decided the girls could do a canned food drive! We read a book to them about a Food Drive, then explained what they needed to do! I asked each parent to have their child request canned goods from family or friends or walk up and down and ask neighbors.
Well, I of course had no idea how this would turn out - but was happily surprised at the amount donated!
Our 10 little ladies donated a total of 210 pounds of food! It really is a lot!! I was so happy and proud of my girls!!
Regan did really well, as seen by the pictures below.
Here are my girls, well 4 of them couldn't attend the donation, but sent their goods!
Their food is in the basket behind them!!
This picture is them holding their earned patch!!
And after, we took a trip to Kart Ranch to celebrate, have some fun and eat some pizza!!!
I am so very proud of my girls!!
Next month we will be packaging up care packages for the 4 soldiers we adopted!!! Stay tuned!!
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