Well I guess there's nothing else for it, but to go back in time and tell you what has been happening here.
Ahem....A long time ago, in a galaxy far, fa- Wait a minute, that's not quite right. I think I'm just too excited for watching Star Wars this weekend.
Lets try again.
So last week Monday was a good day for YAC. They had their Holiday Get-together, and seemed to have quite a bit of fun. The community service project they did involved putting together kits to make the Easy-Peasy Snowmen. You can find a copy of the instructions for that here. They ended up putting together forty-two kits and donated them to North Central Health Care for their residents.
They were very appreciative of them. YAC also did a white elephant gift exchange, some of the things that were given included a game called Ring Around the Nosey, and a High School Musical lamp. Ahhhh white elephant. Gotta love it. Since we didn't do much planning at the get-together, the January meeting will probably be just planning for February.
My Holiday Gift tree that I put together only collected four gifts, but that is definitely much better than nothing, and helped make the Christmases of four children better. I think what I will make sure gets set in motion before next year is partnering with Salvation Army or Neighbor's Place to adopt a family, or to just collect more gifts. It was a really short notice thing this year, so now I know for next year!
The Leadership Summit is coming along nicely. We're in the final planning stages. I admit I'm not doing much for it because I'm not on the Summit planning committee. I was on the Focus Group committee and those are done with now, so I'm just getting my own stuff ready for the Summit, which includes making a poster for 4-H and trying to recruit adult volunteers. That will be next week's project.
Since our 4-H Program Advisor is leaving, I've taken over some of her immediate roles until the position is filled. Things such as running Hand's On Day which is next Saturday. I've got alot to do for it, I have to organize all the rooms, make sure the instructors are ready for it and know how many they are expecting. I've got to make sure everyone has nametags and knows where they are going, and I also have to get myself and my own session ready. I'm teaching two sessions. The first one will be Basic Cake Decorating and the second one is Intermediate Cake Decorating. Since I'm the Cake Decorating Superintendent for the County, I thought this would be a fitting thing for me to teach. Since numbers have been down for the county in Cake Decorating, this is a good way to expose it to others who may not otherwise have an opportunity, and show them that it really is not difficult at all! This will be a hectic day, but worth it.
My weekends in January are filling up. On the 19th is the Financial Wellness Conference. I met with one of the active 4-H leaders and she now has a better idea of what she will teach for the session. I am hoping this will go as smoothly as I hope it will, but we still have a few weeks to prepare for it, so I am sure everything will go fine.
Other things I have to look forward to is starting the Camp Planning process, and Prefair Music, Drama, Dance, and Demonstrations. That will be exciting.
As part of our LEAN process in the office we are doing some rearranging. Part of this meant moving all the publications from the shelves by my desk to the filing cabinets near my desk. The Ag Agents took care of theirs and got about six shelves into three drawers. The CRD Agent took about four shelves and magically put it into two shelves. I was moving the 4-H publications and got about nine shelves into eight drawers. Not as magical as the others, but still quite an achievement.
On a more personal note, I received this in a Christmas card from one of our foreign exchange students that we have hosted in the past. All the way from Germany, and she still manages to find a way to skip me.
The next few weeks will be busy. Hopefully I'll remember to post!
Until Then!
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