Today is the Cookie Booth Lottery. You draw numbers for the order of your turn, and then the troop leader and I during each of our turns get 4 minutes to sign up for 3 seperate booths. Except at the primo Wal-Mart/Cabela's booth; there you get 4 minutes to sign up at one OR the other. It's craziness but they have it set up where it's supposed to be fair for all troops to get a chance at a good booth.
Anyway, we get to start selling cookies door-to-door on January 20th. And then we'll start our booth sales on January 23rd. We sell until the end of February. Last year was Lindsay's (and my) first time to sell cookies and she (we) ended up selling 540 boxes. Her (our) goal this year is 675. The money the girls earn selling cookies goes into the Troop's account and then we use that throughout the year for camps and field trips, et cetera.
Over Christmas I had the chance to visit with Betty G. who was our troop leader way back a long time ago. We had a good time reliving some of the things we did in our troop and some of the fun and miserable camping trips we went on. She listened to me (and commisserated with me) over the number of hours a troop leader puts into the job and for the most part without a lot of help from the parents, so at the end of our conversation I told her, "I probably didn't say it at the time, but I thank you for being our troop leader."
So I hope your New Year's resolutions didn't include going on a diet because we're about to have some Girl Scout Cookies to sell!
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OMG. You just had to remind me about the cookies....I reside with the Cookie Monster. Never fear, we will help you (er, Lindsay) reach your (uhm, Linday's) goal this year!
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