Gull Scouts Christmas and a gift for me!

We just got home from Girl Scouts (or Gull Scouts, as Ian calls it), where they had a Christmas exchange, greed style. You know, where you pick a present and open it, then you can keep it or take someone else's present? First of all, major props to Annika's scout leader for being brave enough to attempt this with a bunch of 7 year olds. Annika unwrapped the coveted gift of the evening- a Bratz doll. That thing got stolen so many times. But Annika? Did not want. She traded it right away for the arsty set of dot pens (the gift that we brought.) Then she hid that gift behind her back so no one else would see it and want to steal it from her. Some of the kids were not so much understanding the concept of greed. One girl unwrapped a gift that contained about three items. She wanted to trade one of the items for someone else's gift (and keep the other two.) But they all had fun and surprisingly handled the gift stealing better than I thought they would. The best part of the night? Finding out that there are no more meetings until January 11th. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I am all for the kids being involved in activities, but a month-long break from schlepping four kids around in the freezing cold...with the coats, hats, mittens, carseats...well that is the best Christmas present ever.