Longaberger Bee 2015: My Top 10 Favorite Things

Here are my ten favorite things about Longaberger's 2015 Basket Bee, the annual convention held in Ohio.  Having attended over 20 Bees myself, I always enjoy getting together and especially this year loved these things, all equally wonderful:

• being in Dresden, Ohio at the high school with hundreds of Longaberger friends
• seeing familiar, reassuring Longaberger Company faces such as Tina Smythe, Brenton Baker, Lynn Longaberger, and Michael Kennedy
• traveling with fun friends, from visiting to shopping (have you been to the Warm Glow Candle Outlet in Indiana on I-70?).  We even now keep a notebook of our experiences and enjoy adding to it each year
• getting to go in the Union Schoolhouse and visit with Jerry Longaberger; being in the fifth-grade (my favorite grade as a student and as a teacher) classroom where Dave Longaberger spent 3 years
• finding Longaberger family and company leaders to be so present and accessible--I enjoyed visiting with Bob Little (Wendy Longaberger's husband) at the Homestead

• recognition in the evening at the Homestead (open only to us!) with John Rochon and his cute young family--a new Homestead memory (that's us hugging above as I got to walk across the stage)
• picking up treats in the Dresden shops for my Longaberger friends at home
• receiving a huge, beautiful $500 Consistency Basket
• being in the Big Basket again
• getting excited about new and holiday products and then getting to visit with the weavers about them as we walked around in Manufacturing

I'll be posting more about my Bee experiences in the weeks to come.  It was overwhelmingly fun!

I'm sure that you have a group of friends, whether through church, family, or another organization, with whom you occasionally travel and enjoy a shared interest.  If not, you need to make some Longaberger friends!  We have a great time together every time we gather, and we would welcome you into our Longaberger family.

I'd love for you to comment and share your favorite Bee memory, recent or far past.  We all welcome a good Bee story, and so many great friends and memories have been made there.