Suze Orman lessons are kicking in

Starshine has gotten the same allowance since she was 5. She has asked me a few times when she will get more, and I have told her she can get more if she would like to tell me what additional responsibilities she would like to take on. At which point, she normally rolls her eyes and moves on. She's a good little saver, and hardly spends any money as is, so I'm sure she's not too concerned.

Well, today she left me the cutest note on my bed...

Dear Mom and Dad,

May I please get more allowance!!! I will do a job to get more. The
job I am thinking of is taking out the garbage, which means get all of the trash from the wastebaskets, and on garbage pickup day I will put the garbage out on the
curb.

Wow - what a well thought out proposal. If she throws in recycling we have a deal.

Girl Scout International Festival

After 2 month of hard work, and much cursing over Asian fabric that frayed if you looked at it, I finally finished all 10 costumes for Starshine's Girl Scout Troop's Chinese dance for the International Festival.

Here they are doing their ribbon dance...

They did an awesome job!

Oh, and something miraculous happened after a crabby morning because she had to be up early, and I had to do her hair in a bun, where she complained ENDLESSLY that I wasn't doing it right...At the end Starshine told me they had THE BEST costumes, and she, for sure, had THE BEST bun of the whole troop. It' the little things that make Moms smile...

5K Fun

We went to the annual 5K and Kids race at m work a few weeks ago. Last year Jr. Princess won the 4 and under race, and was super upset that she had to run with the 5-8 year olds this year and probably wouldn't win. It took a while to explain to her that this event wasn't about winning. If running was about winning, than Mom would never run :). So, we set her goal at trying to beat some older looking kids.

If you look closely, here they are lined up at the start line. The tall girl (bent over) between them kept trying to budge in front of them.

But here's Jr. Princess streaking past the (much older) budger...


And Starshine finished as the 2nd fastest girl. Who knew we had such fast genes in the family. They certainly aren't coming from me!

Here we are relaxing after all the hard work.

After all the super jumping, free snacks, healthy races, and good times, Jr. Princess found her true favorite part of the event. As we were leaving, a colleague of mine was cleaning up the food table. "Hey Pink Mom, do you guys want a case of Gogurt?" Yes we do! She carried this whole case to the car with an enormous smile on her face. Ah, the simple joys in life :)