Ponderings...
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    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 me
    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 cookies 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    in 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
    an 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.

A Summer We'll Remember