C is for Cookie!

Our first year of Daisies brought our first Girl Scout Cookie Sale! It was a fun experience overall, and we learned a lot of things for next year. I really liked the online sales tool. It helped us track orders, and had a nice visual of cookie boxes stacking up to illustrate how close each girl was to her goal. We had to quickly adjust A's goal, since we sold cookies much more quickly than we had anticipated. It was really fun working together to get the wagon or sled stocked, to monitor our cookie inventory, and to put together orders that we received via the website into bags or boxes to deliver to customers.

One of the first weekends of the cookie sale, our troop met at an assisted living high rise, to sell cookies to residents on their way out of church (we're not just cute, you know). When we pulled into the parking lot, I read a bumper sticker on a car next to us that read something along the lines of, 'don't tell the kids where we are' and then we got in to a discussion about people who lived in a senior apartment building, and that they were retired. Once Bennett heard about this great thing called Retirement, he wanted in. He said, "I want to retire right now!" Annalise, visibly riled, exclaimed, "but, BENNETT, you're not even in Kindergarten yet!"