Daisys

What have I gotten myself into??? I am beginning to think that I am incapable of saying no. I wanted my daughter to be involved with girl scouts. All of her friends started a month or so ago with their troops through their schools but we had not received anything from her school. A few weeks ago I learned that there are troops that meet at our school but they are apparently full with children returning from last year. I was not really happy about that. It is our first year and I know there are several other new families as well and given the opportunity I believe we would probably have had enough children for a new group.... but I digress. When I didn't think there was a troop at her school I contacted the girl scout council and inquired about a troop closer to our home. When I heard back the woman asked if I would volunteer to help with the troop and I got the impression that without this help, there would not be a troop for my daughter to join so I said yes. So fast forward to tonight's meeting (which I almost missed because I thought it was being held tomorrow) and I am now the leader with a co-leader of a group of about 12 girls. Oh and by the way, I had to lead tonight's meeting with the moms. Hellooo... I don't know ANYTHING about this. There is a meeting about it all tomorrow night and I will be attending that as well. Maybe it would have been helpful to have that meeting tonight and tonight's meeting tomorrow - I'm just saying. On the upside, my daughter is sooo excited about being a daisy and she met some nice girls tonight. To tell the truth I am a wee-bit excited about the whole thing too. It sounds like it is going to be some definate work but I think it is also going to be a whole lot of fun. When I called my husband on the way home his question to me was, "Can't you ever just be a participant" - followed by a good, long laugh. I don't think I can just be the mom that drops off and I know there will be times when I am kicking myself for committing to so many (so, so many) things but for the most part I have a lot of fun with it all.