Eat...Girl Scout Cookies, Pray...Girl Scout Cookies, Love...Girl Scout Cookies

We currently have 1377 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in our little house. Getting them here took two trips with the truck and well crafted human chain. Everyone helps. This year, the process was made more complicated by the ice on our driveway, but by 8:00 Thursday evening, all of the Thin Mints and Shortbreads had made it into the house safely.

This whole ordeal is tiring on a good day, but with a low grade fever and a headache -- it's downright incapacitating. At 9:00, after a good dinner and a headache pill, I decided that the process of separating the orders for each Girl Scout could wait until morning. I made myself a cup of Sleepytime tea, waded through the sea of Peanutbutter Patties and Lemonades to curl up on the sofa with the book I'm currently reading, Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert. I found my place, marked with a bookmark Joey made for me. Chapter 6. The first line I read...

"Oh, but it wasn't all bad those few years...
"Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout Cookies."