Girl Scout Cookies

G.S. cookie sales are to begin on 1-21-09 and will continue through 3-1-09. This will be our troop's first year to sale cookies. Sounds fairly simple, doesn't it? Not so.

The leader and I were informed early on that we should select one of our "moms" to be the "cookie coordinator" and not undertake the task ourselves because it was very time consuming, so we got one of our moms to "volunteer" for the job. This past month the G.S. organization has been busy preparing for the upcoming sales, but when we inquired of our "cookie coordinator" as to whether certain things were on her schedule of things that needed to be done she had no clue as to what were talking about. Big red flag. When we started asking more questions about scheduling, etc, our "cookie coordinator" admitted that it was a bit overwhelming for her and her schedule and she resigned. Not good. So now the leader and I are going to try to navigate our way through our first year of cookie sales, and still keep our meetings well planned and organized.

Our first order of business was to attend the "cookie booth" selection process today. (I really didn't have anything else planned for a Sunday afternoon, so why not?) We had no clue what we were doing and it was very stressful. I'm still not sure what the exact outcome of our selections today will mean, but I do know that pretty much every Saturday and Sunday from January 25th through February 21st my butt will be parked outside some store with Linsday selling cookies. JOY.

So when this cookie bonanza begins and you see those smiling G.S.'s sitting outside your favorite store asking if you'd like to purchase a box of cookies, think about me sitting somewhere with Lindsay, and then say yes and hand over your money, and then you can have a good laugh and some really good cookies.