Tonight was our very first Brownie Girl Scout meeting. I was so nervous, but my Service Unit Manager said she couldn't tell.
The parents decided they'd like to have snacks for the girls, and that they'd like to rotate who brings them. I have a "cookie mom" and about half the parents are willing to stay every meeting if I need them to.
Eight girls signed up, but not all of them were the ones I was expecting. That means we may have more girls in the troop than we thought, up to about 12. That's a good troop size, 8-12. I can deal with that many girls.
But it's still a good thing we only meet once a week.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
The more the merrier!
... up til twelve Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
*and so the hunter stalks his prey, awaiting the times to pounce on his dough like enemies*
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Dang it, Boon, now I want to go eat some brownies...
Congrats on the good first meeting
--Mel
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Thin mints!! (I'm waiting for mine to be delivered)
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I had a dream about girl scout cookies last night. They still had thin mints, and a few other important ones, but all sorts of different ones from when I was in girl scouts (which was 2000)
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
We don't sell cookies in our council until January. And we're not allowed to sell them online. But if I got a private email from a friend...
My mother claims I'm only doing this so I'll have access to the cookies. Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
I'm sure you know what I thought of when I saw this thread.
"First Meetings in the Brownieverse"?
Good luck, save us some Samoas.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
JennaDean, me too!
Samosas? What?
Brownies. I wanna make me some...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I loved Brownies. I wasn't allowed into the Junior troops, though, because "they were full". (None of the parents in our little troop of "outcasts" were able to lead any more after we finished Brownies. The two more popular girls were accepted into other Junior troops; the rest of us were turned down. These were troops of about 6-10 girls each, and could have easily accepted a few of us-- even all of us into one! But they wouldn't. For us to go on, we would have had to find a way to get a ride and drive for 35 minutes a week to the nearest troop that would accept us, instead of meeting after school where we all went to daycare and just being excused from the daycare program for an hour or two a week. It still kind of rankles. I'm glad there are alternatives around now for my girls-- like American Heritage Girls.)
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Samoas, quidscribis. Girl scout cookies. I don't usually go for boxed cookies, and fund raisers are annoying, but we look forward to these Girl Scout fund-raiser cookies all year. I don't even know what they're made of, but they've got coconut in them and chocolate on the bottom and they're YUMMY.
Ketchup, I just hate mean people. Posted by Sergeant (Member # 8749) on :
I feel my arteries clogging just thinking about those cookies. YUM!
Sergeant
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I thought (rather guiltily) of this thread today. We went into the store to get ice cream, and there was this girl and her mom outside selling some stuff (not cookies, I'm not sure if this was unsanctioned or what.) She cheerfully asked me as I went in, "Would you like to support the Girl Scouts?" I (apparently rather rudely, at least according to Jeff) answered, "Nope."
I eat the cookies because my aunt buys them for me and they're addictive. But after dredging up all those old feelings, I was not in the mood for a fund-raiser. I feel rather bad I took it out on a 12-year-old, though. *sigh*
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I've never heard of samoas. Samosas, however, I quite like. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Both very good, in very different ways. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Now I really want girl scout cookies...
Oh, I just remembered, I think one of my roommates is a leader or something. *makes note to beg for cookies*
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
quote: Girl Scout: Is that lemonade made from real lemons? Wedensday: Yes. Are those cookies made from real girlscouts?
mmmm, brownies.
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
Aw, kq, I'm so sorry you had a bad time. It stinks that they were allowed to get away with that sort of behaviour.
It's against Girl Scout policy to do that, as long as adult to child ratios are met.
FWIW, we'll have a kindergardener in our troop. She'd normally be in Daisies, but there isn't a Daisy troop within 10 miles and she'll be 6 in March, so she's joining us as a Brownie. We may wind up with a Junior in our troop as well...if she can't find a troop she likes, she's welcome to join ours.
Acceptance for ALL girls!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:It's against Girl Scout policy to do that, as long as adult to child ratios are met.
That's what made us so mad. My mom went to the council, but got no response. For a month. At which point we just gave up on that angle of it. *sigh*
I'm glad you let ALL girls in. Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I was a Brownie until about the 3rd grade when they were going to disband our troop because the leaders didn't want to lead any more. We had the option of going into another troop, but I don't think any of us did; we were all friends with each other by that point.
But I still love Girl Scout cookies! I have Thin Mints and Tag-a-logs in my room. (I still go by the old names). Does anyone remember the white and yellow creme filled cookies? Those were the best! I'm sad they don't make them anymore.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oooh, yes! The Lemon Chalets or something! I loved those...
And they still call them Tag-a-longs, don't they?
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
Girl Scout Cookies are currently made by two licensed bakers: Little Brownie, and ABC (America's Best Cookies). Each invidual council chooses the baker they will supply from each year, and negotiates a contract with that baker. Girl Scout Bakers are required to offer three cookies: Thin Mints, Short Bread/Trefoils, and Peanut Butter Sandwiches/Do-Si-Dos. However, the two cookie companies sell mositly the same stuff.
LBB/ABC Thin Mints/Thin Mints ABC's thin mints have thicker chocolate layers surrounding the cookies. Required by GSUSA.
Trefoils/Shortbread, required by the GSUSA
Samoas/Caramel de Lites
Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties
Do-si-dos/Peanut Butter Sandwiches- also required by GSUSA
All Abouts/Animal Treasures- Chocolate on the bottom, boring shaped cookie on the top. This used to be part of the pink experiment line, but now seems to be a yearly favorite, and like Samoas, and Taglongs, will not be leaving the linuep any time soon. Notable was the pink strawberry cookies in the mid ninties (I never ate them).
The other two of eight slots rotate. More often than not there is a lemon cookie, (notable is ABC's lemon pastry cremes, which used to be more permanent). Many other test cookies include some sort of nuts. LBB had a good white chocolate and macademia nut cookie a while back. Disaters include ABC's no-fat cookie bars (ten to a pack).
I know too much about this stuff after selling fo 12 years, I'm sorry. As a Cadette/Senior, I was in charge of the group's cookie activities for three years because no one voluteered as cookie mom.
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