I meant to stop at Starbucks and pledge to perform 5 hours of volunteer work. However, I got too busy.

I am in the process of doing a great deal for the Girl Scouts right now. We are setting up an award nomination for a council wide award. A biggie. I am excited because this person deserves it. I am also investigating if two of our leaders who do paid work for the GS can actually get volunteer awards. Then I was working on getting the new forms since our council merged this past year.

Next, I am trying to contact a local hospital to see if my Brownie Scouts can decorate or make decorations for the kids in the hospital. I think it would be nice to do that. We’re trying to instill the idea of volunteer work in our kids. Not just community service via food drives, but getting the in trenches.

Then I was busy last night helping Soleil work on a proposal to adopt a Right Whale. She has read several books on whales lately, and she decided her class could adopt one. I suggested perhaps her school could. She mentioned this to her teacher and the principal. The principal said it was a great idea and that Soleil should write up a proposal. Last night, we collected our research and she dictated the letter to me. I guided the letter (what do you want to do, WHY do you want to do it, HOW much will it cost, Where does the money go to help the whales and HOW will you raise the money). Personally, I a very psyched that she came up with this idea on her own. Now her sister wants to adopt an animal at the zoo…. Sigh
 

Add to this work, and clean up, and bed time and homework and violin practice? Yeah, I had no time to pledge to volunteer yesterday.

How about you?