The snowball is rolling!

A snowball in August? Well, that seemed fitting, because the Better Homes and Gardens story is rolling along! Laurie emailed the Girlfriends today to tell us that BH&G wants to send a photographer to spend half a day with us for photos to go with the story. That's wild!
So we'll have a Christmas gathering in August, it would seem. I'm anxious to hear details of what kind of photos they want.
It's really ironic, because they seem, according to Laurie, to be focusing on the benevolent portion of our gatherings. Sounds selfish, but that's secondary to the sheer pleasure of getting together each year. We don't have a "project" every year; those come about when one of us feels strongly enough about a cause to bring it to the group. The winter that Lisa was in Iraq at an Air Force hospital, it was easy. I'd already been asking other people, like my co-workers, to help out with sweats to send whenever they could. Asking the Girlfriends was only natural. I knew they'd help out, because that's just the way they are. They're good, generous women. Now, though, the pressure's on! What will we do this year? We'll have to do something! I've no doubt that finding a project will be easy. I've got a few in mind myself. I'm guessing we'll talk about it at our pseudo-holiday gathering for the BH&G photographer, when we pile on the sled to head down the hill for the magazine story!