Anna Grows

Anna prepares to shovel (with her NY Yankees hat) A major winter storm hit Northern Virginia on February 13, dumping over 14 inches of heavy, wet snow.  This can mean only one thing:  Joe was in Las Vegas. It turns our that Joe has a higher accuracy rate than the National Weather Service in predicting a major winter storm. He currently has a 75% accuracy rate, thanks to the latest storm.  Once again, he was "stuck in Vegas," or at least until he managed to get a later flight. Anna got to enjoy two more days off school by making a snow igloo and having a snowball fight with the neighborhood boys.  She enjoyed hanging out with her friends and making Valentine cookies.  She was not so excited about the packet of extra homework her teacher sent home. Theresa got a significant work-out in  shoveling the heavy, wet snow.  Thankfully, the neighbors (who have come to expect these sorts of things when Joe goes to Vegas) lent a hand.  A big thanks...

Anna's delivery vehicle It's cookie season once again.  Anna exceeded last year's sales, selling over 200 boxes of cookies thanks to her door-to-door sales around the neighborhood. The girl scout selling season in Virginia runs from right before Christmas until mid-January.  This presents several challenges.  First, most people have holiday cookies and are not looking to purchase large volumes of additional cookies.  Second, the New Year diet resolution depresses sales (Anna ran into some of those).  Finally, door-to-door sales in January are really not ideal.  This year Anna and her Mom braved the icy sidewalks to take orders (they did get some sympathy).  After getting all of the orders, the cookies arrive in February - traditionally the snowiest part of the winter. The cookies arrived last week.  Once again, Theresa is the cookie mom for the troop and the Fagella household served as the distribution center for 1,300+ boxes of girl scout...