Meeting notes - 1/24/12

Another fantastic Daisy meeting! Thanks to Niki and Sayble for running the meeting while Shelly & I handed out cookies. The girls discussed cookie selling safety and made thank-you's for the Warren Theater for our movie outing last week. The older girls have now earned all their petal patches & will start working towards their Journey patch series. If your girl is missing petals, please see me at an upcoming meeting. If your girl is new this year, please email me a reminder what color petals they already have - Niki and I are working on putting together activities for some of our newer girls to complete at home to finish their petal patches.

If you have not received your initial order of cookies or if you need to order more cookies, please contact our cookie mom, Shelly Shipman (email me if you need contact information). We will be able to start getting booster orders of cookies on January 30th. Shelly is planning on delivering the cookies we were short tomorrow - please let Shelly or I know if you think you were shorted cookies and do not receive them tomorrow. Also, we must turn in money regularly - please plan on turning in money you've collected at the 2/14 meeting or arrange with Shelly or myself to drop money off. Council deducts money out of our account regularly for cookies, so we must be making regular deposits during the sale.

There was some concern tonight about the increase of cookies given to the girls in the initial order this year - we did increase the initial order by 6 shortbread and 12 thin mint boxes from last year. However, our sales per girl last year indicated that the increase would not be a hardship - if you find it is stressful or difficult to sell what you have, please let me know! We want this to be fun for the girls and not stressful for the parents - since we are planning on having a booth sale in a few weeks, we can easily get rid of your extras, as long as we know you have them to get rid of before we order more. Please don't feel pressured - we're just trying to meet the demand for cookies a little more efficiently than last year.

Remember, your girl earns $0.50 per box for the troop for every box she sells. We are planning to fund our Brownie Bridging ceremony, supplies fees, patches and field trips for the next year through cookie sales if possible! Also, don't forget your girl earns "cookie dough" based on the number of boxes she sells, and this money can be spent at the Council shop for next year's registration dues, books and uniforms.

Thanks so much to our wonderful parents! We hope this cookie season goes even better than last year!

Misty