Girl Scout Cookie Time

Once again it is that time of the year, Girl Scout Cookie Time.

This year, the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting, the sale started on January 7th, and since I live in Indiana and the Super Bowl will be held here, there are some extra things going on with the sales. But then again, the Super Bowl is an hour drive north of us, and I have NO plans to take seven 10 year olds up there to set up a cookie booth in the middle of tailgating! I'll leave that to the older Girl Scouts.

The other thing that Cookie Time means is that it pretty much takes over my life.  I spent a couple hours last night entering the Troop information into the Cookie Ordering computer system, then I had to turn around and enter all the girl's information into the Cookie Club computer system. The Cookie Club allows the girls to send emails to family and friends, and they can respond with promises to order cookies. It also send specialized links that those friends and family can share with other people, but it has no identifing information about the Girl Scout, keeping them as safe as possible.

Now I will update the Troop Facebook page with information on the cookies, and work to promote the sale. The reason that we really need to have a good sale is that the proceeds of the cookie sales is the only money that we get to do things. Girl Scouts runs on donations. We get a small amount from each girl's parents as dues, but not enough to go camping or anything, so the proceeds that we get from cookies is what pays for us to go camping. The girls want to go to Holiday World and camp there. That will take some money, so we are working hard to sell enough cookies for that.

I have to admit that for all the work that Cookie Time involves and takes for me, I love Girl Scouts. It is such a great program, and it help girls learn to live and be proud of themselves in this day and age, and I am proud to be part of that, and to be shaping and molding young girls to be leaders and role models of the future.

If you know a Girl Scout, please buy some cookies. The money goes directly to that troop and helps that girl, and it is important!

Missing In Action

WOW! Has it really been 8 months since I have been on this blog?! How can that be?

I have to say that life has been hectic! I am getting into a daily routine, but then Maeve auditioned for Narnia: The Musical and got cast, so we had practices in November and december, with opening night December 31st, and it ran through January 9th. It was a wonderful show, but the week before opening night, I did nothing but sew costumes, find props and work on the show, from 10am to 10pm, everyday, and then on show days, I was there early fixing costumes, or props or whatever else, and it felt like I had no life but that theater. Oh the things we do for our children! I loved it, in the respect that I was there with her, this is something she loves and I got to see her in her element.

Things have slowed down a little, but Maeve is still looking for summer theater to audition for, she has Dear Edwina coming up April 30th and May 1st, two shows both days at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in Bloomington, and then competition dance season starts next month! WOW! That leaves little time for anything else.

Add to that, Maeve and Molly are both in Girl Scouts, Maeve in the troop that I am leading, and Molly in a Dasiy Troop, and there are outings and events coming up with those, along with cookies. The orders are placed, in fact I am picking up 110 cases of cookies this afternoon, but cookie booths are still to be had, so alot of time involved there.

And for me....i just want to write! I feel more alive, more me when I write and when I take that little bit of time for myself. So I am figuring out how to schedule the time, between laundry, dishes, dance, girl scouts, church, homework and everything else, to have a little time to write. I had to face the fact that when I don't write, I get depressed and my moods get unbalanced. It's just a fact of life, I am a writer at heart, and I need to write, even if it is just a imple daily journal, I need to write each day or I am not as good of a wife, mother, or woman as I could be, or am when I am writing.