Daisy Girl Scouts

Last fall after school started Viva's Daisy Girl Scout troop resumed meetings. We like the troop because it is very conveniently located at the grade school two blocks from our home, but the troop only meets every other week and the meetings are only one hour. Viva liked doing activities with the troop, but she never made any friends at the meetings. She was okay with going to meetings, but not enthused about it. Then Kara learned that the first grade class at the school (all the Daisies in this troop are first graders) had a major ongoing problem with lice. (Our school district changed its lice policy from you cannot attend school if you have lice to you can attend school with lice.) Kara decided to check out other nearby troops.

She found one that was taking new members. The first week we planned to attend the leader's daughter was sick and the meeting was canceled. The next week Anchorage had a major snow storm and the schools were closed, so the meeting was again canceled. We finally met with the new troop in the middle of December. 

The first meeting with the new troop was interesting. The leader was very enthusiastic, but also very unorganized. She showed up fifteen minutes late. She had recently attended cookie training so she brought all the cookie info and spent the entire meeting (over an hour) discussing cookie sales. She entertained me with her over-the-top commitment to cookie sales, but there were no activities for the girls. We learned the troop plans to use their cookie sale funds to go charter fishing in Valdez. When I asked Viva on the way home what she thought of that idea she surprised me and said she liked it. Really?

When Viva and I left we agreed we'd come to one more meeting before we made a decision about the new troop. Our second meeting started on time, but was still disorganized. Viva enjoyed the meeting because there were two craft activities. First the girls (with lots of help from the adults) made duct tape headbands to wear at the cookie sale booth and then they made a foam snowflake ornament. A major problem with this new troop was its size. There were only two other Daisy Scouts at the two meetings we attended plus another one or two Juniors.

We have decided to put Girl Scouts on the back burner for now. We will look in the fall for a troop.