Dear Gawd help me! I knew it was inevitable. It comes this time every year, so why wasn’t I prepared? I have no excuse…my DD was a GS, and I was even a leader for a few years…and here’s the kicker…I was the ‘Cookie Mom’ for several years. So why didn’t I see this coming? The doorbell rang and then I heard it from downstairs…”MOM! It’s the Girl Scouts selling cookies!!!”

I froze! I’m a sucker for those GS Cookies and those little cute neighbor Girl Scouts! I always buy several boxes of each person’s favorites, and I’ve got the huge list down pat by now. This year was different though…my heart started palpitating and all I could think of was…Those d*@n cookies are going to arrive right about the time I start my pre-op diet!!! I could barely breath as I pictured those Tag-a-longs and frozen Thin Mints (best served frozen and dipped in milk…and come to think of it THIN MINT? Who ever got Thin eating those??)…AAAHHHH! “MOM!!! I’m picking out my favorites…HURRY UP!!!” Then, I heard it…the garage door going up….deep sigh of relief…breath slowly coming back…I yell down “I’m busy, Dad’s home now, so get him to finish the order please.” I don’t even want to know what they ordered…I’ve just got to focus now and get myself prepared for the smell of Thin Mints while I’m on the pre-op diet…maybe if I start wearing Vicks-Vapo-Rub every day until then I’ll be repulsed by the smell? You see, they say on the pre-op diet that I’ll be so hungry I’ll probably eat my youngest…wait, maybe after he eats a bunch of those cookies he’ll taste like a Thin Mint?!!!

There's a 100 Cal pack of grasshopper cookies...they taste just like the thin mints...they are a savior for me.

...sure NOW you tell me! LOL! (I'll look for them, thanks!)

they are hard to find...and tiny little cookies...but worth it. sorry I'm too late. wahhhhh

...but not to late to save my youngest (and to save everyone around me from the smell of Vics for the next couple of months)!

Hang in there BG! I believe in you. You can overcome anything. Even GS cookies!!!

I just steer clear and tell them I am a diabetic. I tried the kosher angle but they ARE kosher. OMG I love the Samoas and the thin mints and the peanut butter ones and oh yeah in desperation I have been known to polish off a box of TriFoils. I cannot BELIEVE I sold those things either way back when. TONS of them. And now Edy's makes Samoa ice cream? I am so doomed.

OMG SS! Did ya have to tell me about the Samoa Ice Cream?!!! Love those Samoa's too...anything with chocolate isn't safe in my house. *Wondering to herself* Do they make it in a SF version? *Sound of bubble popping*

That was the sound I heard too!!!

Dag...a girl can dream. LOL, you crack me up! I've been keeping tabs on you Hope the classes/pre-op visits are going well...when will it ever end?!!