Tag: Hawaii

Cookie Deadline Emergency!

Last year I was such a good mommy helping My Kid sell her Girl Scout Cookies to the neighbors and the folks at the diner and showing others who didn’t even want the cookies how to avoid the calories by sending them to the military troops overseas (so My Kid could get her Girl Scout Cookies for The Troops badge). This year I have done nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Squat. Nothing.

Therefore my kid has sold nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Squat. Nothing.

Sooooo. The sale ends this weekend…. Yikes!!!!!

I am scrambling to find out the price of a box of cookies. I am that out of the loop!

Bad timing. The sale started in December not long before Christmas break. Need I say more…

My sister came from LA for a visit.

We went to Hawaii for a conference and My Kid missed the first week of school.

Our return was delayed and we took the red-eye from Seattle arriving back in Brooklyn at 6:30 am Monday morning. The Husband stopped at home just long enough to take a shower before going in to the office.

My Kid got to school on time so she could touch base with her teachers and classmates on the last day before the @#$%^! No Child Left Behind 3rd Grade English Language Assessment Two-day-long Standardized Test!

The Husband was too busy and too new at his job to let anyone know his household contained a cookie pusher and take orders at the office like I wanted. Last year he took orders from his team but by the time the cookies arrived the company had been sold and the staff had scattered and we were left with a lot of extra cookies. I don’t want to do that again.

And now the sale ends in 4 days! I don’t want My Kid to sell NOTHING!

Just trying to sell enough to get the participation patch…and maybe the cookies for the troops patch…

As for the Girl Scout incentive prizes; pajamas, beach towel or USB Band and iPod Nano (for selling 1000 or more boxes of cookies) Fageddaboutit!

What Color is Barack Obama

I spend quite a while yesterday morning online researching Sarah Palin’s racism both overt and implied.  So this evening on the subway when My Kid asked me what color Obama was…

I immediately started going through the Rolodex of my mind searching for facts I could tell her about his white mother from Kansas and his black father from Kenya and how the met in Hawaii and how some people get divorced. Also some foolish people with light skin like Sarah Palin decide not to like people who have dark skin like the Obama family, and say words like “those people” to mean they don’t want to even try to be friends.  Even though they are grownups, they have not yet learned the lesson of “The Sneeches” by Dr. Seuss.

Stalling for time I asked; “What do you mean what color is Obama?”

She wanted to know if he was BLUE or RED!  

I remembered an essay I once read by someone, who, attending a gay wedding and reception at a church in Seattle,  wondered what carefully crafted words about love and relationships would be prepared for the child who was marveling at the weird thing he had seen.  That strange thing the child had never seen before turned out to be a rotary dial telephone.