Happy Birthday Juilette Gordon Low

Some of the older Girl Scouts in our town planned a birthday party event for Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts. Most of the girls in our troop signed up because we thought it would be a fun activity for them to attend.

A few days before the event, I was explaining to Claire that she was going to go to the middle school with some of her friends and some of the older Girl Scouts were going to do lots of fun activities with them to celebrate Juliette Gordon Low's birthday. Claire asked if we were all going to sing Happy Birthday to her at the party. I explained how she had died a long time ago and this "party" was just a way to celebrate what a special person she was because she "invented" Girl Scouts.

A few hours later, out of nowhere, Claire asked, "Mommy, is that lady who started Girl Scouts going to be in a box?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Claire: "Because she died."

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Claire has been to a lot of funerals. In her little 5 1/2 year old mind she thought the "party" might be a wake since I mentioned that Juliette Gordon Low died. Of course, I explained that it wasn't a wake and she died a long time ago. This event was just a little celebration because she was such an amazing woman for starting Girl Scouts.

It was a really fun night full of lots of great activities for the girls. At the end of the evening the girls decorated cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday.