The popularity  of Girl Scouts Cookies is due entirely to the fact that Girl Scouts are marketing geniuses. They don’t flood the market with their cookies. By only offering them once a year they leave everyone wanting and waiting for Cookie Season. And they are probably the only products in the world that you cannot purchase online, so you must actually seek out a Girl Scout to purchase the cookie your craving. Therefore many people look forward to this special season all year. Who doesn’t love a Thin Mint? Those are my favorite. I find most people are fans of the Samoas. My family’s personal favorite is the Tagalong. Unfortunately, I do not like peanut butter and chocolate mixed. I realize this puts me in a category by myself since chocolate and peanut butter together seems to be a national pastime. I wonder if that is why my kids like them so much?  They know I will never eat them.

     Now that the official selling season has begun I will need to assist my two scouts with their cookie sales. My generous sister usually sells some at her office as well. Of course I will need to make sure they each sell the same amount. Heaven forbid one sister sell one box more than the other sister. I shudder at the thought.  Of course I need to buy several as well. Those boxes usually sit in the house for months because I will put them in a remote location to get them out of my way, and forget that I bought them. It also is a certainty that I will wait until the last minute to get the order form together and deliver it to that brave mom who has volunteered to be the cookie mom. I will whisk in a the last second with my order forms and  a very big personal check to cover the cost of the Girl Scout Cookies.

     Last year I ran into a little glitch. The order forms were such a mess I decided to make new order forms on Excel. I made an order form for each of my two scouts. I even color-coded the columns to coordinate with the cookie box color. I was so proud of myself. How organized!  Fast forward a couple of weeks I pick up our orders from the cookie mom’s house. Then head on home to sort. My daughter Grace is a big helper and sorting cookies is right up her alley. I went in to the kitchen and began getting dinner ready  and she began her sorting. A few minutes of sorting goes by and she comes into the kitchen and complains that there aren’t enough cookies. As any good mother would do, I told her she must be mistaken and to check the lists again. Obviously she did something wrong. This scenario played out several times and resulted in me stopping what I was doing and going to check it out for myself. Which was when I discovered I had sent in the same order form twice. In my haste I must have printed two copies of the same form. I  couldn’t believe it, what a major blunder! At the end of the day those people who I was too embarrassed to tell about my screw up recieved the cookies they ordered. Close friends and family got whatever was left. Thankfully they were good sports about it.