Monkey Girl is a Girl Scout.
A Brownie, to be exact.
She loves being a Brownie. She loves everything about it.
In her old school, she had Brownies once a month. In her new school, they haven’t actually met yet, as it is run a little differently, but tomorrow is their first meeting to kick off the cookie sale.
She is just beside herself with excitement.
She has her Brownie vest, but all of the badges aren’t quite on.
See, the badges are iron-on.
Irons and I are not friends.
Irons and I don’t like each other very much.
I think you could go so far as to say that irons are my enemies.
I tried to iron-on some of her badges in the early years, but they never stuck, they fell off, and it was a huge pain in my patootie.
So, I started sewing them on.
I love to sew.
I do not love to sew Brownie badges, because they aren’t made to be sewn. They are thick material with some sort of plastic-y backing stuff that needles do not pass easily through.
So, over the last two years, the badges have just kind of…piled up.
Tomorrow’s meeting is not after school. It is in the evening at a local pizza place.
I figured we were home free with the whole vest-wearing thing.
Then the e-mail came.
“Let’s have the girls wear their vests and brown pants to school tomorrow!”
Well, we don’t have brown pants, and the vest isn’t quite up-to-date.
I’ve got a looooong night ahead of me.
It’ll be worth it when I see the smile on her face in the morning, but for now, I say again…
I’ve got a looooong night ahead of me.
