Girl Scouts

I have to admit I had my doubts about the Girl Scout cookie selling. And a week before the official date of cookie selling season I saw many mom friends posting on Facebook to get everyone's orders in because ...the cookies were coming!!  So I did the same thing and had friends and family from out of town wanting to reserve cookies.  But then the day after receiving the cookies we set up a stand in front of the house and Lupe started on her homework as she called out her first tentative "cookies for sale!"  

And slowly the people started to come.  In three afterschool sessions Lupe had sold out of her 36 boxes. I started to go back on my online promises as we met college students who used to be Girl Scouts and the Cuban couple from up the street who heard Pedro speaking Spanish. 

And I realized that this was what it was all about.  Who was I to take away from Lupe's learning experience?  It's not a competition.  And it doesn't matter if you sell them all or not. 

What matters is a six year old girl learning to use her voice, meeting her neighbors and practicing her math while counting her money.