My Last Eagle Project!

With six boys in our family, Scouting has been a pretty significant part of our lives. My five older boys got their Eagles starting in 2010. Talmage was our last boy and with all his merit badges completed, we started working on his Eagle project this summer.

He chose a project to benefit Kids on the Move--an organization that helps kids with delays and disabilities. We ourselves have had two children involved with KOTM. The project was making scooter boards for their movement classes. The scooter boards didn't take long to make--the part that was hard was raising the money to pay for them. The casters on the bottom were $5 each--we spent $225 just on the wheels
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We were the Little Red Hens making the bread: grinding the wheat, etc.

For the fundraiser, Talmage passed out fliers taking orders for homemade whole wheat bread to be delivered on two Saturdays in September. It actually went really well. We ended up making more than 50 loaves of bread and selling them for $5 each. Talmage did a lot of the baking himself with some supervision and help from me.

It was unseasonably warm and the garage worked well for assembling.

Scott and other adults used staple guns to staple the vinyl on to the boards.

Camille did quality control.

Then last Saturday, he had boys and leaders come over to our garage to assemble the scooter boards. It went quickly and I was glad the fundraiser had taken so many hours; otherwise, this project would have been too small.

Today we delivered them to KOTM with Talmage's friend, Jon. Hopefully he felt good about the effort he made.

Now all that's left is the Eagle application. I'm feeling relieved to be done with this chapter of my life. And glad that it worked out as well as it did.

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