The World According to Leslie

The Princess is working on her Silver Award project. She is calling it Love in the Chaos !!! She's going to be making LifeBooks for children who are in foster care in our county. Once she has completed her Silver Award, she will begin the work to start her Gold Award. (It's like the Boy Scout Eagle Award--only better.... ok, I may be a little biased!) That's when she's going to spread to surrounding counties with this project! Anyways, we have asked friends, family, and complete strangers for donations for the LifeBooks. She's hoping to make 150-200 of them for our local county. We have had several people donate to the project so far.... and we still need A LOT of donations (monetary or supplies). But, of those donations only two have been from people we know!  It's amazing how strangers will help you do something when you are working toward a goal, like LifeBooks for Foster Children. If you would like to donate, please contact me. I'll set up a...

This weekend was pretty good. Actually, I was so exhausted from the weekend that I took a TWO HOUR nap on Sunday!  (I haven't done that in a long time!) Friday, I went to watch my nephew play in a high school baseball game. He is a sophomore, but he's pitching for the Varsity team this year!  YEP!  He's that good!  He even made the local paper for his work at the end of the game on Friday. You can check out the article here . On Saturday, I taught the Sign Language badge at the Girl Scout Badge Bonanza. It's an event where the girls choose what badges they want to earn, and they can earn up to 4 in the day! It was fun!  I haven't done that in a couple of years! Sunday, we had the VBS meeting at church. It went well. We had a good turn out for the first meeting. I'm still going to need more volunteers, but I think I will be able to get them. After church, we met up with an old friend. She gave us some scrapbooking supplies for The Princess's Silve...