So many people have emailed asking my personal history with Girl Scouting. I must say, looking back, it's been a long and probably fairly dull history ... you're welcomed to read about it here if you like.

I wanted to join the first time I saw a girl in a Brownie Girl Scout uniform. I didn't know what Girl Scouting was, I just knew I wanted to join and wear one of those uniforms. Problem was, I was only in kindergarten and back then, you had to wait until you were in the second grade!

Finally, the day came and I got to wear the uniform. If ever there was a Green Angel it was Mrs. Dodge, my Brownie leader. She had over 30 girls and knew them all by name - even me! Meetings were held in her house and to this day I don't know how she did it. She took us on hikes and play days at the park. I was dedicated to Girl Scouting from the beginning. I read my handbook cover to cover, even the painfully long Brownie story. I probably would have worn my uniform to school every day, but as it was, I wore it every Tuesday without fail.

You would think that this positive beginning would lead to a wonderful career as a Girl Scout. Things fell apart when I reached Juniors.

     A mid-summer move to Lakeside, CA (San Diego-Imperial GSC) left me without my troop. I joined a local troop, but I did not transition well. The leader's daughter was the Patrol Leader and was a bit of a bully. The leader lost interest, as well as badge paperwork soon after our only campout. I never returned.

Once I became an mother of a bouncing baby girl I got in to volunteering with Girl Scouts. I was a Brownie (Hoosier Capital GSC) and Junior Leader (Bluebonnet GSC), a Cadette Co-Leader (Pacific Peaks GSC), as well as Service Unit Registrar, SU Cookie/Calendar Manager, Quartermaster of Supplies at our GS Hut, all the while moving every few years with the military. Once we settled at Pacific Peaks GSC I got serious with my volunteer work and became a Council Trainer (Master Level), SU delegate and began working as a Membership Specialist, Receptionist and Store Clerk at our local satellite office. An overseas move to NORAGS (North Atlantic GSC) found me volunteering as the Service Unit Treasurer - something they don't do stateside. Back into the Bluebonnet GSC I found a wonderful summer job as the Camp Nurse at the resident camp. I spent 3 years with the Nation's Capitol GSC as a SU Registrar and Council Trainer. Then I spent 2 years at the Pines of Carolina GSC, spending one glorious summer as the Camp Nurse at Camp Mary Atkinson. 

Being a military family, we moved again in 2004 back to Pacific Peaks GSC. I volunteered as the Council Historian and worked as the Camp Nurse at Camp St. Albans.