February is Girl Scout Cookie (GSC) month.  Forget about Valentines Day and who really celebrated President’s Day? BUT February comes around and most of the country knows to look for the little girls parents of little girls with the color coded order slip and the photos of fabulous cookies.

I don’t know what the deal is about these cookies.  I wonder if they taste better because you know you can’t get more when they run out? Or maybe it’s because you haven’t had any for 12 months. . . who knows? The thing is – they are G.O.O.D.

We got our order yesterday and it has caused me to start thinking deep thoughts about GSC.  Our church switched from having a Girl Scout troop to Heritage Girls, because the Girl Scouts have begun to promote values that conflict with Truth.  So, does that mean I shouldn’t be buying Girl Scout cookies? WHEN are the Heritage Girls going to start selling cookies?

Another thought – those stinkers put just enough cookies in the box to make you think you are getting plenty of yumminess, BUT when a family of five takes 2 cookies a piece and it empties the box of Lemonades. . . there is a problem.

And WHY IN THE WORLD did they change the names of the cookies.  Samoas –  well loved cookies at the Blue Hutch –  are now called Caramel Delites.  WHAT IN THE WORLD???  Peanut Butter Patties are also Tagalongs.  It’s a bit confusing.  From what I could tell on the website, this a regional thing and there are some places that are still using the name Samoas.  (Probably in the South ’cause we are suckers for traditions.  I commend them.)

Enough, huh? Okay – enough.

I can’t find my camera battery charger.  I have prayed and asked the Lord to help me find it since He is obviously the ONLY one who knows where it is.

I can’t find my Bible.  I have another bigger ESV Bible but I hate to have lost my “thinline, easy to carry in my purse so I can hold multiple hands in the parking lot, brand new” Bible.  I have prayed and asked the Lord to help me find it since He is obviously the ONLY one who knows where it is.  It’s been months so I bought a new one.

I have misplaced a stack of McDonald’s coupon books.  I have prayed and asked the Lord to help me find it since He is obviously the ONLY one who knows where it is.

This all makes me sound VERY absent minded and irresponsible, but I would like to remind you of my ever-present go-to crutch: I have two special kids and a three year old and all of them take and move things.  Two of them are basically unable to tell me where they put what they take.  So, while I hope that my mental faculties are in tact and it’s my children’s fault I lose things, I thought I would play it safe and type my book list for 2011 right here where I’ll know where to find it.

I started out the year so well that I decided to really set a goal for myself.  In the past I have aimed for two books per month and have ended up reading two books.  Period.  This year I am taking a different approach.

I listed out areas of life I want to focus on and came up with five:
Special Needs (S)
Parenting (P)
Marriage (M)
Theology (T)
Daily Living – Practical (L)

Then I listed three books for each category and a few extras to fill in along the way.  Okay, the list:
S – Unlocked
T – Through His Eyes
L – Shopping for Time
L – 1.  Total Money Makeover
T – 2.  Disappointment with God
L – 3.  1000 Gifts
P – 4.  Intentional Parenting
P – 5.  Bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children
P – 6.  You Can’t Make Me
L – 7.  Between Walden and the Whirlwind
T – 8.  Prodigal God
T – 9.  Almost Christian
T – 10.  Respectable Sins
S – 11.  Same Lake Different Boat
S – 12.  Our Special Needs Child
S – 13.  Expressing Faith in Jesus – Church Membership for People with Cognitive Impairments
M – 14. Love and Respect
M – 15.  The Respect Dare
M – 16.  Love that Lasts – when sinners say I Do

If I stick to reading at least 15 minutes per day I should be able to finish a few.  I’ll keep you posted.

So, my friend Denise won’t accept her win! She had already placed an order and so she keeps writing that she’ll let someone else win.  That’s very kind of Denise and one of you owes her a favor.

Denise’s order was for two 5×7 signs in a baseball theme and two 8×10 signs in a pirate theme.  I love how they turned out.