MLK, Thank You For The Day Off From School!
Monday morning, while mentally organizing my day, the telephone rang. It was a special request. Grandma, would you take Olivia selling Girl Scout Cookies? Since we live in a 55+ community we know any residents could only be former Girl Scouts. The granddaughters feel the area is their dedicated territory because their grandpa and grandma live there. There also are residents who request that the girls stop by when selling the cookies or when the schools are selling fund raiser items. At 10:30 a.m. Olivia arrived at grandma's with her older sister Veronica for a second day of the annual Girl Scout cookie sale.
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This is the third year we have taken the girls through our development to help them achieve their goal with the number of boxes they pledged to sell. Last year we had some humor involved. The three girls were selling cookies. My husband and I were enlisted to go with the girls. Charlotte chose to sell with grandma and Olivia and Veronica chose to go with grandpa. Just a short distance down the first street the girl compared sales. Charlotte had thirty boxes ordered and the team of Veronica and Olivia had orders for six boxes. Olivia who is grandpa's sidekick told grandpa "he was bad luck" and she wanted to go with grandma. We switched teams and the bad luck followed. Soon Olivia sat down at the edge of someones landscaping and started to cry. That was when her mother appeared. "Livie" was soothed but she said she was done selling cookies! That was 2007!
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Yesterday was a bell ringer! We went through the development to finish the sales we started on Saturday. Olivia had a total on her list of 108 boxes which 82 were from Rancho Bernardo sales. Olivia was psyched!!! Olivia had three people in her neighborhood who have asked her to stop by for their order and I was told she knows that she will have more sales. I reminded Olivia that all of the sales will have to be delivered but that is off in the far distance in the mind of an 8 year old. Olivia enthusiastically replied, "now I have won a T-shirt prize". The T-shirt is a prize that advertises the cookie sale given by the cookie company to promote higher sales.
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We came back to grandma's house because Olivia needed lunch. She ordered a panini and mentioned to grandma that she wanted a hot sandwich! The order was filled and so was Olivia! As soon as Olivia had finished lunch she said to grandma, "how about a game of Rummykube". Grandma tells the grandchildren that she is the World-City Champ at the game of Rummykube just to get them to challenge her title. I love to play Rummykube. We sat down at the table and played two games. I had to admit defeat to our eight year old granddaughter with both games. Olivia looked up and said to grandma, "now grandma, what is your title?" I admitted "biggest looser" which put a grin ear to ear! Everyone should have an Olivia in their life! Grandchildren are priceless.
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Well, Olivia has become the envy of her Brownie troop after her day with Grandma. She told her friends that her Grandma helped her sell enough boxes for the T-shirt. I heard from more than one mother that they would like to borrow Grandma Donna for the cookie sales next year. How about a Rent-a-Grandma? Bye for now! Anne
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