Message from the Executive Director:

Well as I read my last post about my goals for the group through this past year, I realize I will need help from my dear Smiles families out there to help me focus on the group's goals.  I always have the best intentions, but when the school year starts, life is so busy I get tunnel vision with my job and find it difficult to balance family, career and then the group on top of it all!  So, please forgive me if I appear to be repeating the same thing every year!  So, I'm calling on all my Spokane Smiles families to hook me up with ideas and connections for fun events, educational opportunities and fund raising resources. 

There will be a meeting on July 28 to decide some future plans for the group with some of the founding members.  If you would like to attend, please CALL me and I will give you the details.  Remember if you want to get a hold of me, calling is the best way because I don't check the email on this site frequent enough to get back to you in an adequate time!

My personal goal for our group is to start having regular meet up times.  I'm thinking quarterly meetings would probably work best for busy families.  The months of the meetings would be July, October, January and April. These would be at a family friendly location where the kids could have some fun and we adults could talk about the direction/goals for Spokane Smiles.  I'll keep you posted.  A few of the members who have been around since the group's beginnings are meeting Thursday, July 28 to discuss picnic ideas.  I think I will claim this as our first official meeting.  The next meeting will be in October.  I'll send out an official invite for that as well as post it on the website.

We're gearing up for our summer picnic.  The summer picnic is the FIRST SUNDAY IN AUGUST every year.   It's so much fun to see how much the kids have grown and meet new families!  The weather has been cooperative in the past, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that our summer weather is finally here to stay! 

I have created a FaceBook page, but have not taken the time to learn how to do that compared to an individual page.  If you were to search for our page you'd find it, but I'm still in the process of figuring out how it all works.  I hope to know more by the time our picnic rolls around so I can let everyone know we've got an official page and we can actually communicate through it!  I think it will be a fantastic way to share news and give each other encouragement!

-Kari

My darling daughter~The reason I don't update the site as frequently as I should!