{"id":59906,"date":"2017-01-02T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=59906"},"modified":"2017-01-02T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T08:09:53","slug":"young-cultivators-merit-badge-little-scrappers-beginner-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59906","title":{"rendered":"Young Cultivators Merit Badge: Little Scrappers, Beginner Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/span><\/span><\/a>, now with\u00a07,200 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u201410,226 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! ~MaryJane\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my <\/span>former life<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For this week\u2019s Stitching and Crafting\/Little Scrappers Beginner Level Young Cultivator Merit Badge<\/u><\/a>, I snagged the opportunity to do one of my favorite things (scrapbooking), and one thing I\u2019d always wanted to do (ice skating).<\/p>\n

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Henri Giacomotto, ‘La patineuse’<\/p><\/div>\n

Piper\u2019s family invited me along on their family outing to the rink, and I was pleased as punch to lace up my new skates and try my skillz at waltzing\/turning\/spinning\/arabesquing<\/span> falling\/crashing\/bruising\/face-planting. I\u2019ve never been one to shy away from a challenge, so I borrowed some shin guards from Andy and placed my bike helmet safely atop my curls (better safe than brain damaged, I always say).<\/p>\n

Piper was new at this, too, so I was not alone. Not skating, unfortunately, but scrapbooking; so I tried to convince myself we were on a level playing field. We were soooo not. Turns out, skating is much harder to master than cutting and gluing. Or at least, so I thought. (The little whippersnapper really cannot cut in a straight line. I tried to ignore it and patted her on the head reassuringly. Or at least I would have had I not been gliding by like elegant ballerina <\/span>gimpy penguin.)<\/p>\n

Piper took lots of pictures to commemorate my big day and to paste lovingly into her first scrapbook. She can really multitask; she was decorating borders at the same time she was sashaying \u2018round the rink. I can relate though; I was multitasking too. I was outlining a rough draft of my Last Will and Testament as I crashed unceremoniously into a Hot Cocoa Booth (that thing came outta nowhere).<\/p>\n

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photo, Alanna George via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

I was very much patting myself on my (thrown-out) back over the use of the helmet. It saved my noggin from crackin\u2019 in four or five places at least, and it also came in handy as our day came to a (blessed) close and I used it to hold all of Piper\u2019s photos on the way back to the car. She skipped along merrily, and I limped like a one-legged pirate who\u2019d had too much rum.<\/p>\n

I had mistakenly assumed Piper would use a digital camera, or even her mommy\u2019s cell phone, but she had an adorable Polaroid Snap<\/a>, so the photos were ready for pasting asap. Photographic evidence suggests I am a professional photo bomber, but in my defense, they were nearly all unintentional \u2026 you try staying out of a family\u2019s nice picture when you\u2019re standing on ice in shoes with tiny strips of metal on them. Yeah. Harder than it looks. Photo after photo, I am a blur of panic, leaving not-quite-death and destruction in my wake, as I skated by, knocking out elderly senior citizens and small children alike. Hey, don\u2019t feel too bad; those grannies really know how to move out of the way when they\u2019re motivated. I figure I saved them from having to go to Jazzercise this week.<\/p>\n

I would have helped Piper more when we got home with her scrapbooking, but I needed to put a heat pack on my back and a bag of frozen peas on my tushy. She assured me she could figure out the intricacies of album arranging without me and would bring the finished product by for a looksee after my long winter\u2019s nap and after my toes recovered from frostbite.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking the skates will make nice flower planters. Is there a badge for that?<\/p>\n

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ice skate planters, Macys.com<\/p><\/div>\n

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