Glenda Gibbs, Integrative Coaching & Counseling, Transformational Teacher, Facilitator of "The Secret"

Ponderings...

Hello, How are you? Is your summer all that you'd hope for? Or like me

have you

had some unexpected events

occur?

Most of you know that I've been baking cookies weekly for the past 5

years

for

Bryce and his classmates.

This past year Miss Chan, my

granddaughter said,

"Well Grandma Sweetheart, will you bake cookies

for

too?" Of course I

agreed. As the school year ended I was thinking

how

I'd enjoy having a summer

free of

baking cookies at midnight or

o'dark

thirty and dashing them to each

school between sessions. Yes, I

was

telling

myself how I was going to take the

summer off from baking

and

have some fun.

The last day of school Bryce received notice from the Congressional

Junior

National Young Leaders

Conference saying that Bryce had been

nominated by

his teacher for outstanding academics, leadership,

and

community service

contributions; they accepted the nomination and invited

Bryce to attend the 6-day

conference in Washington D. C. this fall. (I later

learned nation wide there are

hundreds of thousands of kids

nominated

and less than 1% are invited and

Bryce is one of those!!)

I viewed this as a right of passage for Bryce so won't you know I jumped

with

both feet to help him. We

started brainstorming how we could

generate the funds

for him to attend. I felt it is a necessity for Bryce to be

intricate part of

generating the funds as he's learned a lot about short

cuts

and handouts.

I'll bet you'll never guess our main source of fund-raising - yes it's true - we

decided to bake cookies and sell

them.

This child will never forget the summer when he was 12 and neither will I.

...

.AA Summer We'll Remember


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Glenda Gibbs, Integrative Coach