G-man with the PTA President.
Our table.
I don't know if you can hear them but the angel's are singing. Ok, I'm exaggerating but I am doing the happy dance.
G-man finished his Eagle Scout project last night!!!!!! WhooHoo!!!
I can't tell you how happy this makes me. He started working on an idea over a year ago. He wanted to paint a giant map of the United States and label all the states and capitals on the playground of an elementary school but for some reason the school district wouldn't approve it. Why they wouldn't want a map on their playground, for FREE, is beyond me but whatever.
So now he has to come up with a new project and I told him it had to be done before school started again. When he got back from Lake Powell we started looking for some ideas when I happened to be talking to my friend GC, and she told me what her son had done like 8 years before. He had made Child Identification kits for the kids at a local elementary school. What a great idea! She said she still even had the kits that they had gotten from her husbands insurance company. Great! So we hit the ground running. Filled out paperwork, got the signatures we needed. We had the perfect opportunity coming up at our kids school. Every year our elementary school has what they call the Bobcat Bash. A fundraiser for the school, where they sell food and have carnival-type games. G-man got approval from the principal to set up a table at the Bash to do these kits. So know we have 2 weeks to make this happen! Then my friend GC calls and says that just a couple weeks before the kits got thrown out! Oh no! She felt so bad and then I felt bad cause she felt bad. ahh, panic. But that's ok we'll go to plan B, we just need to think about what plan B is. Next day she calls and tells me that she was able to order some more from her husband's insurance company and they put a rush order on it. Well, needless to say the kits didn't come in on time so now we're at plan C , which is make our own. So make our own identification cards we did. Again GC is helping by letting us use her husband's work printer to copy our information cards. G-man contacted our local Police Station and they allowed him to use their finger printing equipment and we borrowed a camera and printer and set ourselves up at the Bash. It was a great success and I can't tell you what a burden has been lifted from my shoulders. I know that there is still some paperwork to do but at least the project is done. I'm going to have to give my Mother's pin to my friend GC because she was instrumental in making this happen. I'm so grateful to her!
So now he has to come up with a new project and I told him it had to be done before school started again. When he got back from Lake Powell we started looking for some ideas when I happened to be talking to my friend GC, and she told me what her son had done like 8 years before. He had made Child Identification kits for the kids at a local elementary school. What a great idea! She said she still even had the kits that they had gotten from her husbands insurance company. Great! So we hit the ground running. Filled out paperwork, got the signatures we needed. We had the perfect opportunity coming up at our kids school. Every year our elementary school has what they call the Bobcat Bash. A fundraiser for the school, where they sell food and have carnival-type games. G-man got approval from the principal to set up a table at the Bash to do these kits. So know we have 2 weeks to make this happen! Then my friend GC calls and says that just a couple weeks before the kits got thrown out! Oh no! She felt so bad and then I felt bad cause she felt bad. ahh, panic. But that's ok we'll go to plan B, we just need to think about what plan B is. Next day she calls and tells me that she was able to order some more from her husband's insurance company and they put a rush order on it. Well, needless to say the kits didn't come in on time so now we're at plan C , which is make our own. So make our own identification cards we did. Again GC is helping by letting us use her husband's work printer to copy our information cards. G-man contacted our local Police Station and they allowed him to use their finger printing equipment and we borrowed a camera and printer and set ourselves up at the Bash. It was a great success and I can't tell you what a burden has been lifted from my shoulders. I know that there is still some paperwork to do but at least the project is done. I'm going to have to give my Mother's pin to my friend GC because she was instrumental in making this happen. I'm so grateful to her!
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