Well, I haven't been posting but, we have been busy

Well, I always say... it just paint. Rissa and I had fun painting her room after a week of Rissa cleaning it out. We think it is pretty cool.

Mile of Cookies Update

We now have 530.5 feet!

Here is Rissa updating the count on the windsheild of the van.

It's not a mile but we have a couple more weeks.

448.81 Feet Collected So Far!

The girls have learned a lot about networking. We, the leaders, have encouraged them to talk to people they know and businesses they frequent, to help the troop on their way to a mile of cookies. The girls have asked their dentist, orthodontists, the clothing stores and many others.

Proud Parent

My daughter wrote a speech about Hitler in her Speech and Debate Class.

She had to do the speech in front of the class as part of the assignment. Well, at first the speech was too long, so she negotiated an extension with her teacher. Well finally she had it close to the five minutes they were allotted. She gave the speech in class and the class loved it. Her classmates encouraged her to take it to competition. After thinking about she decided to go for it. It was her first time doing a “ex-poss” at tournament. So she was surprised that she made the semi finals and decided that she had done well to do that. Boy was she surprised when she took first place beating out 35 upper classmen, now on to districts. Good Luck!
I always knew she could talk her way out of anything.

Mile of Cookies

Girl Scouts Hope to Raise “A Mile of Cookies”

-- Boise Troop Expands Five-year Donation Effort That Started with St. Luke’s Mountain State’s Tumor Institute --

Boise – Often it only takes a cookie to bring a smile to the face of someone going through a trying time.

For the last five years, girls from Boise Girl Scout Cadette Troop 396 have been doing just that with cookie donations to patients at St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI).

Each year, during the annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale, the scouts have asked customers to purchase cookies to be used for donations. The effort has resulted in more than 1,400 boxes of cookies being donated to MSTI.

“The girls personally delivered the cookies to the patients,” said Troop Leader Dawn Ackerman. “They enjoy being able to brighten the day of a patient who is going through a difficult time.”

This year, the Troop says it is “stepping things up” with a plan to create a “Mile of Cookies” to donate to organizations throughout the Treasure Valley.

This year’s effort would still include MSTI but add other Treasure Valley organizations such as local homeless shelters, food banks, the Idaho Veterans’ Home and senior citizens through the Meals on Wheels program.

The girls have dubbed the effort “A Mile of Cookies Brings Miles of Smiles.”

“It will take 8,448 boxes of cookies to attain the one mile goal,” Ackerman said. “We hope everyone will help these girls learn that dreaming big reaps big rewards, that reaching out into the community is time well spent and lessons well learned.”

The girls are measuring the mile by the number of boxes it would take stacked end to end.

A box of cookies costs $3.71 and a purchase of just under $20 will buy 1 yard of cookies and $100 will by almost 17 feet. A $500 donation will buy 84 feet of cookies.

Contact us at mileofcookies@yahoo.com

and check out the u-tube video at Mile of cookies 2