Cookies, 2 more weeks to go

Sometime in about 2 weeks I will breath easy again.  It's still cookie season.  And to add to that, this past week our office moved.  GAH!  I sure hope this is the busiest week of the year, and from here on our it's smooth sailing.

Started last weekend with our first Cookie Booth.  It went ok.  We were at a Safeway store, which everyone is finding is not the best grocery store to be at.  King Soopers is!  And I say everyone, I mean the FaceBook board I belong to.  The chatter on this board is very interesting.  WalMart is a good place to sell (lots of traffic), but not easy to deal with.  King Soopers treats Girl Scouts well and the girls tend to sell LOTS of cookies.  Funny how things work that way.

Courtney and I stayed for the whole 3 hours at our booth.  That was kind of long for poor Courtney, but we were no where near home, and I had all the stash in my car.  I did end up having to go out to my car about once an hour to get another case or two of cookies.  We sold almost every Thin Mint we had.

Sunday ended up being an interesting day.  Hubby's plan were to get up early and go pick up a cadet.  He got to the gate at the Academy about 8:20am and they informed him that his Driver's License was expired!  He didn't notice that it expired on his last birthday!  So, they turned him away.  He had to come home and I went to pick up the cadet.  Funny how nowadays that we don't write checks at stores, you do not pay as much attention to your expiration date!  I just happened to glance at mine about 2 weeks before my last birthday and notice it was expiring.  Someone was checking it against my credit card signature, and it was just luck I glanced at the expiration date.  Hubby has now ordered one on line and should have it in a week or two. 

Tuesday was the big office moving day.  We got almost all things moved!  And I have spent hours this week unpacking.  There is still a lot of unpacking to do.

Wednesday it started to snow.  Some meteorologists were saying "lots of snow coming!"  some said "not so much".  The ones who said "not so much" were wrong.  At our house, we got a solid 6 inches.  Fountain, the town to the south, who hardly ever gets snow, got 9-10 inches!  Every district in town was closed on Thursday!  But Thursday was Hubby's big computer move, so he had to leave about 7:30am to go to work.  We knew before we went to bed Wednesday night that the girls did not have school the next day, but Hubby had to get up at 6:30am the next morning to clear the snow!  And of course one of the blades on the snow blower stopped working.  But he was able to get my side of the driveway mostly clear and he took my car to work.  And because of all that, our household was up and moving at 6:30am, on a snow day, when we knew the night before... kind of a bummer (for me, the Mommy).

The girls were giddy due to all the snow.  We went outside once.  The sun was out, but the the wind was still kind of blowing, so we were only out there about 30 minutes.  Due to the move this week, I was WAY behind on housework, and the girl wanted constant attention.  I called my neighbor and she sent her 7 and 4 year old over about 10am.  That was the best decision.  The 4 kids played and played and played!  Finally about 4pm they went home.  I was able to get 5 loads of laundry done and clean the living and family room!  And that night, my youngest just crashed!  My oldest crashed faster than she normally does, that was a good thing.

Which reminds me, for Lent, I gave up clutter.  My friend told me about the 40 bag program.  Basically you attempt to get a bag of stuff out of your house everyday.  I was able to get 3 bags out of the living room on Thursday!  2 trash bags and 1 donate bag!  Ahh, it has felt so good!  I created a list of areas of the house I want to clean out.  I am slowly but surely working my way through it.

Kasey now has a slight cold.  This is the fist time in months she has been sick.  (Knock on wood).  And Courtney seems to have a very slight version as well.  Which again is amazing!  The kids at her school have been knocked out!  There have been several kids out for a week and/or more.  I have been trying really hard to keep them well.  I have been doing the whole "bright fruits", vitamins, humidifiers, and anything else I can think of.   Thankfully it is apparently working!!!  :) 

Today Courtney and I went up to Sky High Ranch for a Girl Scout event, World Thinking Day.  It has been a "few" years since I was last at Sky High.  Ok, like 30, but hey.  Somehow the lodge is exactly the same, but a bit smaller... how does that happen?!  Sky High Ranch is our local Girl Scout Camp, about an hour from our house, up in the mountains.  When I was a GS, I went to camp there and several Girl Scout events.  It was kind of odd feeling to be there as an adult.  And how on earth did I ever think "camp food" was good?

We are supposed to have another blizzard tomorrow.  And my troop is supposed to have our last cookie booth.  We really really need to have our booth.  We need to sell all the cookies we have, we can not turn them back in!  AHHHHHHHH!!!  I think it is a Cookie Managers Job to stress about this.  I was having nightmares last night!  Then we get to the event today and see the Cookie Manager for the older girl's troop at our school and she mentuions how cookie stuff had her up at 3AM!  Good to know I am not alone.

Would I do it again next year?  Yeah, probably... But this is my learning year, so it's going to be the toughest one. (Let's hope anyway).  I have to say, as much as I am stressing as we get to the end, I still love it....  Although I am finding that having all these cookies so readily available all the time is really not a good thing for my girlish figure.

We are working to apply for a Gifted and Talented Summer program for Courtney.  Colorado College here in town puts one on for GT Elementary school aged kids!  You have to apply and there is limited space, so we are hoping and praying she gets a spot.  She had her choice of 3 classes and she choose one about "Investigating.  She seems to be getting very into mystery books, so looks like this would be right up her alley!  

 Well, it's getting late and I have been doing a lot of Cookie Work.  So, here is to hoping we do not get a blizzard tomorrow as predicted.  And here is to hoping my girls stick with a slight cold.  And also to hoping I have no more nightmares about Cookie stuff!!!