Sophie is a Daisy Girl Scout this year and this weekend started the annual cookie sales. Sophie's troop has decided to participate in the Project Troop to Troop program which is part of the Gift of Caring Community Service Project. In this program, the girls can ask potential customers if they would like to purchase cookies that will be donated to our military personnel both at home and abroad. Sophie, to my suprise, has taken quite an interest in this program and was very excited when the first person order a box for the Troops. It was later in the day when I finally found the root of her interest. Here is the conversation we had on the drive home:
Sophie: Mommy, do the cookies for the Troops REALLY go to the military people.
Me: Yes! Why?
Sophie: Do they go to the army people?
Me: Yes.
Sophie: Will they go to the people who are still training and learning?
Me: I think that they could....Why?
Sophie: Just wondering.
Sophie (gleefully trying to whisper to Jason): I think Yuri is going to get some of the cookies that I sell!!!
FYI: Yuri is a young man from our church. He graduated from high school last spring and entered training for the Army Reserves. He has always been very sweet to our little Sophie.
