Beautiful Friends

I have the greatest friends and I have so many of them. I am truelly blessed in my life. I have a friend for every occasion of life. When I need someone to call to rant to about a school and school issues I call Emily or Stacey; when I'm needing help with church I call Tammie, Jamie, Stacey, or Christine; when I have family issues I call Dianna or Tammie; when I have issues with Girl Scouts I call Kristi, Cheri, Cris or Roni; when I want to talk about college I call Connie, Dyana and Wendy; when I need emotional support I call Emily, Stacey, Christine, Tammie, Jamie, Kristi, Cris; and when I need to go out and have a really good time well I call all of them because they are all cool. I even have friends who are boys: Allan, John, Dennis, Chip, Brad, Don. Friends are a true blessing.

Emily talks about her best friend Mei all the time. I asked her if she has other friends and she says yeah but Mei is her "Bestest" best friend, then she has about 5 other she classifies as "Best "friends which are really close friends but don't get top billing like Mei. Then she has "REALLY CLOSE" friends. She is a well rounded social butterfly.

Erin doesn't have a friend that she calls her "Best" friend. She tells me that she has too many friends for that.

I'm cool with that. I use to think that I had to have a "Best" girlfriend. That one person in the world that got me all the time and never not got me. I don't think that anymore. Each friend has a special gift to give and fills a special need within you. You should always remember to thank your friends.

That help keep you sane.

THANKS FRIENDS!!!!

Mistakes

I did a bad thing last night. I yelled at my girls. I hate to yell girls. We were at the end of our last brownie meeting for the year, nothing had gone right all night and then the girls starting playing in the daycare with things they know their not suppose to and I lost it. Erin's feelings were hurt, Emily was sullen and withdrawn and I felt horrible. I know I'm hard on my girls for a reason but I don't have to be mean or overbearing. I usually try to explain the reason they are in trouble and that cause and effect are just a part of life. If you do this, then you will get in trouble but if you do this you will be rewarded with praise and responsiblity. I can't stand it when I loose control like I did. Sometimes I blame myself because I'm the adult, yet others I blame the girls because they have been taught to mind and they know what is expected of them.

Last night was just one very big mistake.

I've got four girls that are considering not staying in scouts and I can't help but wonder if I've let the troop get too big and have let these girls fall through the cracks. They seemed to love scouts but just don't know if they want to continue. I know that I take a lot of things personally but I really love doing scouts and want each girl to love it as I do. I just saw my nephew receive his Eagle Scout award and was wondering if I would how many of the girls in my troop would make it to Gold. It is so very rare that a girl will make it to Gold. Not to dismiss the Eagle Scouts but there are a lot more Eagle Scouts then there are Gold Girl Scouts in the world.

Struggling

I am struggling with an issue concerning my youngest daughter. I don't believe my kids to be superior to anyones but I do believe both to be fairly bright and quite capable of doing very well in school. This last 3 months, Erin has be struggling with reading. She has been moving at a good pace all year but about 3 months ago she started having issues. We stepped up with helping her and did all the extra work that was asked and she is still struggling.

We just received her Iowa testing results and I can honestly say I'm in complete shock. These results, in my personal opinion, by no means resemble my daughter and her abilities. I am completely bewildered at how low they are and can't understand how she could have done this bad. She did excellant on them last year and was one of the top students in her class. This year, I haven't checked to see how she did compared to the others in her class, she is struggling with reading, spelling, writing and lanuage. Math was the only thing that she scored where I would have imagined she would have scored. Something is not right and I can't figure it out. She is excited about reading and trys reading books all the time. She can retell almost any story she reads and is very good at sounding out words, yet here we are......

We haven't said anything to her about how disappointing her scores are and we haven't had a chance to talk with her teacher. We are trying to get an appointment with her now, but haven't been able to get it set up. I can't describe the sick feeling I have over this issue. I feel like I have not been there for her or not provided something that she needed. I feel like I might be failing her.

First part of this weekend is complete

Yes I know I was suppose to be walking all night long for the Relay for Life but it closed down early due to rain. A huge thunderstorm blew up and we had to very quickly leave the field for the field house. We made due though. We started doing laps around the field house. We did get to do opening ceremonies before the rain started. I got a good picture of Kristi with her mom, Carol walking the care givers lap. Sandi, of course, could not make it but her kids came down with their grandmother and that was great. We had a wonder time and I got to do some where in the area of 50 or more laps. I stopped counting.

Well off to bed so I can get up and start working on the Memorial Garden for Breanna.

Sandi, may God take away your pain.

Breanna, we miss you with all our hearts.

Quick type something!!!!!

Yes I know it has been 2 weeks but I'm still recovering from getting sick at camp. GS Camp was great but it completely wore me out plus my allergies hated the cabin which I'm sure had mold and plenty of dust mites. But the important part is that the all the girls had a great time and it is over!!!! I will not, repeat WILL NOT, do that again.

I did not get the opportunity to take a lot pictures and I'm waiting on my moms that did to get me some. So here is the only picture that I have:


Course now that I'm doing physically better I have another marathon weekend. Tonight at 7:00pm is the Relay For Life all night walk at Cabot High School. It is from 7:00 pm until 6:00 am and then tomorrow my brownie troop is starting the construction of the Memorial Butterfly Garden in memory of Breanna Hammaker, our sister brownie we lost in October of 2005 to brain cancer. So it is going to be a very long weekend. No-dozs anyone????

I will try to take pictures. It should be a lot of fun, if I can stay awake. Oh and Marty and Erin will be there with me. Emily is going to a birthday slumber party and will probably get more sleep then us. Isn't that ironic.

Well got to get moving. I've got to get things really for tonight.