It's Girl Scout Cookie time!
It comes around every year - Girl Scout Cookie time! Even as a brand new member of the troop, Caroline has the same enthusiasm she's shown in years past for selling cookies, and I'm also helping by volunteering to supervise booth sales and anything else the troop leader needs. Been there, done that - it's always easier when others volunteer to help!
Caroline has set an incredibly ambitious goal this year - she wants to sell 800 boxes to get to the reward level where she'd earn over $200 in cookie dough to use toward Girl Scout camp next summer. That's a LOT of boxes, so she set out this weekend to start knocking on doors and making some sales! Saturday, she and John went down the street, but I was disappointed when she came back after just a short time and only having sold six boxes. She said she was tired from skiing that morning. I did understand, but I also told her that when we have big goals, sometimes we have to work harder to achieve them. Despite my encouragement to go back out, that was it for Saturday selling. Sunday, though, she and I went out together after agreeing on a goal of trying to sell 100 boxes or sell for two hours, whichever came first.
When I asked her what she wanted her box goal to be today, and she said 100, I thought - wow, that's ambitious! In my mind I had expected her to maybe say 50, but one of the many terrific things girls learn with cookie sales is how to set and achieve goals, so 100 it was!
On an unusually warm and sunny day for January in Wisconsin, we headed outside and started at the next door neighbor's house where she made a sale of two boxes. So encouraging to get that first house! She's learned over the years that there will be disappointment with nobody home, nobody answering the door even if they are home, or simple "no thank you's" when doors are answered. Still, she moved on, door to door, covering every house down the next street over as she worked to make the full loop.
As we closed in on two hours, Caroline was still enthusiastic but we were both starting to get pretty cold, and three houses in a row had turned her down because they'd bought cookies the day before. The early bird definitely gets the worm when it comes to Girl Scout cookies, as she'd learned in years past. Still, it had been a successful outing - she'd sold 50 boxes in two hours, so we agreed that was a great start to the season! We headed home with cold hands and cold toes, but satisfied with a job well done. As we walked, she and I also talked about strategies for finding time to go to more homes in the neighborhood.
Whether she hits her goal of 800 boxes or not, I love the way she thinks like an entrepreneur, coming up with ideas and plans to achieve that big number. Girl Scouts has been wonderful for both of us, giving me a chance to spend time with my daughter that's relaxed and without tension, a gift as she enters the teenage years.
Caroline has set an incredibly ambitious goal this year - she wants to sell 800 boxes to get to the reward level where she'd earn over $200 in cookie dough to use toward Girl Scout camp next summer. That's a LOT of boxes, so she set out this weekend to start knocking on doors and making some sales! Saturday, she and John went down the street, but I was disappointed when she came back after just a short time and only having sold six boxes. She said she was tired from skiing that morning. I did understand, but I also told her that when we have big goals, sometimes we have to work harder to achieve them. Despite my encouragement to go back out, that was it for Saturday selling. Sunday, though, she and I went out together after agreeing on a goal of trying to sell 100 boxes or sell for two hours, whichever came first.
When I asked her what she wanted her box goal to be today, and she said 100, I thought - wow, that's ambitious! In my mind I had expected her to maybe say 50, but one of the many terrific things girls learn with cookie sales is how to set and achieve goals, so 100 it was!On an unusually warm and sunny day for January in Wisconsin, we headed outside and started at the next door neighbor's house where she made a sale of two boxes. So encouraging to get that first house! She's learned over the years that there will be disappointment with nobody home, nobody answering the door even if they are home, or simple "no thank you's" when doors are answered. Still, she moved on, door to door, covering every house down the next street over as she worked to make the full loop.
As we closed in on two hours, Caroline was still enthusiastic but we were both starting to get pretty cold, and three houses in a row had turned her down because they'd bought cookies the day before. The early bird definitely gets the worm when it comes to Girl Scout cookies, as she'd learned in years past. Still, it had been a successful outing - she'd sold 50 boxes in two hours, so we agreed that was a great start to the season! We headed home with cold hands and cold toes, but satisfied with a job well done. As we walked, she and I also talked about strategies for finding time to go to more homes in the neighborhood.
Whether she hits her goal of 800 boxes or not, I love the way she thinks like an entrepreneur, coming up with ideas and plans to achieve that big number. Girl Scouts has been wonderful for both of us, giving me a chance to spend time with my daughter that's relaxed and without tension, a gift as she enters the teenage years.
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