Don't you just love the Olympics? It took a few years for me to really appreciate each sport, but I have also discovered that watching the games, with Girl Scout Cookies, really helped my appreciation of each participant.
For instance, I just decided to perch myself in the chair, with several boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Olivia and Walker made sure that I did not run out. And, as the games began, I found it too inconvenient to go into the kitchen and prepare something to eat....when I had eight boxes of cookies right beside me.
No oven to heat, no dishes to wash, and a different cookie to munch on so that I would not miss a single event. Of course ice skating and ice dancing have always been my favorite sport, and I know without a doubt that if the lessons had been taught in Forest, Mississippi 60 or 70 years ago, there would have been a happy little girl practicing each day.
Oh the music, the skating, the beautiful costumes...the thrill of each performance, I just know I could have been a star. But alas, those dreams are just dreams, but I can still enjoy each event....and thrill with each victory and shed a tear with each defeat!
After all, I devoted my time to supporting the events with a favorite box of the delicious cookies.
And now the Olympics are closing, and I can just imagine how grand and elaborate the ceremony will be as we look to two more years of watching “the best of the best.”
Oh, and I only have one more box to go. So, if you see Walker or Olivia, just ask them to stop by. This has been one wonderful, easy week around my household. And you can bet I will have plenty of Girl Scout Cookies to get me through the memories of this past week!
Thought for the week: On Words: Sign in music shop: Gone Chopin. Bach in a Minuet. From: The Complete Book of Zingers by Croft M. Pentz. 1990 Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
Carol Lindley is Miss Hattie. Email her at hattie1014@bellsouth.net
