Girl Scout Cookie Time!

It is Girl Scout Cookie Time again. It is a tradition to buy them and eat them, especially when they are frozen, at our house.

The thought of Girl Scout Cookies brings back lots of memories:

• Selling door-to-door, lugging the boxes around with me--back in the 1950's!
  

• When my mother was our Brownie leader in Quantico, VA, she brought some of the girls to stand outside the Mess Hall and sell cookies. We sold a lot, which now seems understandable with those young Marines probably having younger sisters our age! A few years later, we may have done that at Camp Pendleton, too.
  

• When I was the cookie chairperson for AE's Girl Scout Troop in 1989, we had cases and cases of Girl Scout Cookies around our living room. I vividly remember this, because that was the time I found out I was pregnant with our fourth child, MJ. This was unplanned, and I worried so much that she would not be developing well because some days I would eat an entire box of Thin Mints or Peanut Butter Tag-a-longs for lunch! This was before I knew I was pregnant, as one could not learn that as early as women can nowadays. (Fortuitously, MJ is healthy, pretty and smart and did not seem to be adversely affected by all that sugar, or by cans of TAB, which accompanied the cookies.)

• Now we rarely get girls selling at our door, but find groups selling in front of stores or on street corners. I found my cookies at the corner of a busy street where I was turning right; I kept on turning right--into the parking lot!

And now that I am trying to return to healthier eating, the cartoon below really struck me as funny.