Darling Daisy

Holly (The Chief Brownie) helps Eden & Delaney carry the Daisy Flag

Was I ever this little?  Carrying a big giant overgrown Girl Scout flag during an Investiture Ceremony?  Swallowed up by the fabric, yet so excited, it didn't matter?

Eden gets her Daisy pin, welcoming her (officially) to the world of Girl Scouting

Well, technically, yes and no.  I was that little, but Daisy's didn't exist when I was six.  I had to wait until first grade when I could become a Brownie.  And my mom was one of the chief Brownies, and that was so cool. And we sang the most fun songs.  Make new friends, but keep the old...remember that one? 

We got all messy with arts and crafts and we earned badges, doing good works for others along the way and leaving a place better than we found it when we came.  Which meant making a long line of little people walking, picking up every bit of trash that had been there for at least a year, crusted into the dirt. 

And don't forget the cookie sales.  Who in the world out there wouldn't kill for a Thin Mint when the mood strikes? 

Proud as a ... Daisy?

For Eden, she is a Kindergarten Daisy.  And they have more than cookie sales now, they sell nuts and candy before they sell cookies.  (I think it's practice for the BIG one.)  And in her little blue smock with her two little Daisy friends, she looks so little, and so grown up, all at the same time.  And she sings the silly songs and the sweet ones, too, and comes home with crafts and talks about her new friends.  And her old friends.  And even though her mom isn't the chief brownie, she includes me in every little way when we walk home together.

Delaney & Eden sing about life as a "Darling Darling Daisy"

And I love her for it.  

My little Daisy.