Bridging Ceremony

It's been an incredibly long day today.  Alarm rings at 6 a.m. and I push the snooze a couple times and roll out of bed by 6:30.  Wakey-wakey for the young ones and get Ben started on his morning meds, get lunches packed, get everyone dressed and get homework packed back into bags, and chase them all into the car by 7:45.  Driving back and forth to the school and after a cuppa tea, fold laundry until lunch.  Eat some leftovers from yesterday and run to the store.  Three times.

The Girl Scout meeting today was all about bridging the 4th graders to Juniors.  I arrived there at 2:00, only to have to leave and return with the balloons that I had forgotten.  The girls made paper flowers, decorated the room, and rehearsed the ceremony before the guests arrived.

We had the older girls do the flag ceremony while the younger girls watched.



They received flowers, cookies, badges, and pins as they crossed the bridge.



Afterwards, they all posed on the bridge together.



And then ate a lot of "snacks".  Several girls had two pieces of cake.



The lovely cake and the antique Junior book that I borrowed to make the Retro Girl Scout Handbook.



Kelly was nice enough to make dinner so it was ready when we arrived home, and after snarfing down a few mouthfuls, I was supposed to leave immediately to get to a 7:00 meeting for Girl Scout leaders, but I just couldn't do it.  I needed to make cupcakes for Cammie's birthday tomorrow.

Now it's 8:45, more than a half-hour past the kids' bedtimes, and we're still struggling to get Ben through all his medicines, get Cammie to finish cleaning the hall before bed.  I asked her to do it last night...

There's not been much staying home for this stay-home mom.