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Kodak Gallery with many recent Brownie photos.

cookie booth sales - take ONE.

Thank god for Cookie MOMS! This is a serious, strenuous, time consuming and confusing job! Tiffany has some help along the way from cookie elves on the phone... aka Carol Fronk and other past cookie moms, but Tiffany makes it look pretty effortless. So - another first for our troop! COOKIE BOOTHS! They told us o prepare to sell 200 boxes of cookies in a 3 hour shift. We made some fancy signs, we hung some signs on cars around the parking lot and we set up shop. We had 3 girls per shirt (the 3 hour shift was split into 2 shifts) We also have 5 helping parents for each shift and everyone was needed! We were so busy there were numerous times there was a line - and numerous times we couldn't keep the thin mints on the table. 3 hours later and we knew we had done well but we didn't know HOW well. Tiffanny had a starting number of how many boxes she brought - so now she just needed to count the remaining. (a tally sheet was too hard to keep up with) Tiffany called a few hours later to say we sold 433 boxes! That is a cookie credit of 72 boxes per girl. John also figured that was an average of 2.1 boxes of cookies sold - each minute of the sale. We have 2 more booths coming up this weekend and I hope we have equal success! Walmart may be tough. To stand outside in the elements (it is suppose to be 35 degrees) and also there are 2 doors for traffic and many other variables. THANKS GIRLS for all your help selling!!! You all did a great job, and I heard many people ask the questions we had practiced and i was very impressed! Good Luck to the rounds of girls going this weekend. I hope to get photos to post of each booth!

One of my many signs (i have them for the Lowes and Walmart location next weekend)

Mia's grandma Hooie came to help SELL!

We had many lines that included guys and flowers.


arent they CUTE!

The day WAS a blur!

many carts of empty boxes to finish the shift/the day

Afternoon Tea & Etiquette

What a wonderful day! Our troop has voted over and over again to prioritize taking an Etiquette class and finally things just fell into place. I found a listing for The House of Commons Tea House downtown who offered a manners/etiquette lesson with afternoon tea. We also had a random early release day right in the middle of our busy cookie month. A perfect time to take a break and enjoy the girls, the troop, the parents and an afternoon out. We had all thirteen girls together in two tables. A few girls went up and helped demonstrate some etiquette of meeting people. Then we got some brief table manners and some tea manners (which i didn't know either) It was a very memorable afternoon! Thank you moms for carpooling and helping and thank you Jessica Avery at The House of Commons.

Cookie Time !

cookies cookies cookies. Our troop started on JAN 8th selling girl scout cookies. This is our second year as a troop selling. we are VETERANS! this year we had a big goal but with 13 girls and booth sales we are going to make and exceed our goal. Each of our girls did an amazing job! Here are some photos of where cookies come from. Its a big production and it runs so smoothly. (thank you Tiffany for your hard work as COOKIE MOM!)