Do you recognize this?

It Tollhouse Cookie dough!  Yum!  I don't know when the last time was that I made cookies from scratch.  I have this recipe that uses a cake mix and that is as close as I've gotten to scratch in a long time.  Today I decided to make a batch for my Girl Scouts who came over tonight.  They were as good as I remember.

My Girls Scouts came over tonight to work on a project.  I am so proud of them.  My Junior scouts are working on their Bronze award.  They have combined their energy and resources, and with the help of the Cadettes in our troop, they are putting together quite a shipment for some of our troops who have been deployed.   We have taken donations to send them cookies and they have made each of the soldiers in that unit a medal of honor.  On the right is the medal making in progress.  We used jar lids and have decorated with with all kinds of things - glitter, stars, drawings, stickers, etc.  I hope they like them.  I'm not sure how they couldn't.

Here are my girls working hard.  We finished up the medals tonight and will finish collecting cookie donations in the next few days.  Then it will be time to have a packing party and get all of this ready to ship! 

I was very hesitant when I took on the co-leadership of this troop, but I have to say that I'm so glad I did.  Each of these girls is a blessing to me!  They are sweet, fun, rambunctious, excited, assertive, smart young women.  I think I learn more from them than they do from me!