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[the_rck]

I suspect that the Girl Scout leaders are going to be disappointed by the troop's cookie sales. I was at the school this morning so that the girls could hand in their order forms (which are due today), and not one single girl gave me a form. I attend all the meetings, so they should recognize me. I doubt it's that. I did tell the parents that they could drop off the forms here any time today, including in the evening. Maybe parents didn't want to trust their girls carrying the forms.

Because I was there, I helped out a little bit with bagel Friday. Cordelia wanted to work it, so she was pleased to be there. With me, there were three adults and about half a dozen kids working. There's a split among the fifth graders-- There are those who want to work every bagel Friday (Cordelia and two of her friends), those who show up when they're signed up and work, and those who show up but never do any work. This morning, there was a boy who didn't work. His father and younger brother did work, but he just kind of wandered off.

I've got a pork roast in the crock pot with some cream of onion soup. Hopefully, Cordelia won't object to that. She's been refusing to eat the soup we made with the last of the turkey from New Year's Eve, and I'd like to give her something that isn't a hot dog.

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[cereta]

I've already sold about three dozen boxes just by posting on Facebook. I suppose I should start making Frog do more selling (she does always help me sort the boxes for delivery), but door-to-door is not an option here.

(I always laugh - last year, I sold a box IN THE PARKING LOT at work when I was loading some boxes from my trunk. People loooove those cookies.)

[the_rck]

Cordelia could have gone door to door in our neighborhood. It's a friendly neighborhood, and we know our neighbors. She was too scared to do it, however, and I didn't push. We sold all of our cookies by Facebook, too (Scott's on there. I'm not), twenty-two boxes.

Our troop has thirteen members. Maybe half of them will have sold any cookies at, and I doubt any of them have sold more than thirty boxes. It doesn't help that our cookie sale planning meeting got snowed out. The girls got their forms with no explanation of what they were supposed to do and no goal setting or real support. For the longest time, I couldn't find the price anywhere in the packet. I *think* I've found it now, but I'm not positive. We don't actually have a cookie parent. It's being done by committee with the troop leader as the official parent in charge but her not doing any of the work.

[zhelana]

oh dear. Did you get any order forms this evening? That' can't be good!

[the_rck]

I got two more order forms this evening. That makes a total of four. The troop leader's daughter may have sold some, too, so that would make five out of thirteen. (The assistant troop leader's daughter probably didn't sell anything. She objects to being asked to sell. That form, if she did sell anything, also wouldn't come to me.)

[zhelana]

yikes! That's gotta be the least interested troop in history!

[the_rck]

To be fair to the girls, they had no preparation for the sale. The meeting where it was all supposed to be discussed got snowed out, so they had no idea what they were supposed to do. We were supposed to get them excited about the sale and to give them ideas about what to do. Instead, they got forms dumped on them with no particular explanation.

I couldn't find the price for a box of cookies anywhere for the longest time. I finally found it buried in the text of a bit talking about how the money from each box gets divided up.