Wednesday, November 9, 2016

4-H Kickoff

I just spent an amazing evening at the Trumbull County 4-H Kickoff! There were information and tables representing various project areas:
variety (photography, genealogy, bicycles, scrapbooking, robotics, and so on)
sewing
cooking
shooting sports
animals
CarTeens
etc.

Normally my club would be all up in this, but when I saw that it was scheduled the day after the election, I knew I'd be too busy to actually plan anything, so  I just showed up.  I actually had an hour to go through some of my 4-H stuff and was able to gather some things to bring.  I took my sewing machine and some fabric and started offering a little sewing project to the kids.  Wow, did it get busy!  Before long, I was helping kids make sweat bands and scrunchies non-stop! I didn't have much time to think but I did ask this one mom to take a picture for me:


They were thrilled to push the pedal themselves to make the machine go and I gave little tips and explained what to do as we went along.  Everything had to move at the speed of light because there was a big line!  Nothing made tonight would come close to a blue ribbon, but they got to do some of it themselves, and take it home.


I'm exhausted--especially after working the polls yesterday--but my soul is satisfied.

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