Update

Just a quick little update!
We have made over $600 which means we are a little over a fourth of the way to our goal of $2300! I still have not made it very public at school since we have had such a great response from neighbors and friends. Keep an eye out for posters at school in the coming weeks!

The Big Cookie Bang

Hello everyone!

Needless to say I was thrilled when I discovered that I did not have school for another day today! (Especially since I don't have to make snow days up as a senior!) Mom, the crazy woman thought that she would get home from work at about 10 in the morning and she would just bake as many cookies as she could. This concerned me since we had over 600 cookies to bake! But since I didn't have school, we tag teamed to crank out all of the cookies, package them, and make labels. We started just short of 10 this morning and worked until about 5 in the afternoon. We must admit that we semi-stopped for a lunch break while some cookies were in the oven. That makes glorious hours of baking fun! All sarcasm aside though, I think that we were both very glad for the other person. We had a pretty good system: One person would remove cookies from a pan and fill them then put them in and we would rotate. So, you would work for about 15 minutes and then go do whatever you wanted for the next 15. We had lots of lists, sticky notes, and used our calculator a lot to try to keep organized. At the beginning of the week we were a little worried about how we were going to transport this massive amount of baked goods to Iowa State on Saturday. One household can only have so much tupperware. (Even a house like ours.) After much consideration, we decided that we could not and would not put up with 50 styrafoam boxes rubbing together for some 3 hours. So we used all 4 of our large tupperware boxes and then packed the rest in gallon Ziploc bags and placed them in my under the bed Rubbermaid storage box. We are very glad that we are done and have decided that we will never accept this many cookie orders in one week again!

Fascinating Stats

612 Cookies

41 pans of cookies

7 hours

9.5 lbs of butter used

10- the minimum number of times we stopped to recalculate

Before....

Hey everyone! We started out this week thinking that we would be doing a couple dozen cookies for the CEW retreat at Lourdes and a few more dozen that we would bring to our beloved Ames residents this weekend when we go up for Emily's Mom's Weekend at AGD. Soon, however, we looked at our spread sheet, only to find that we already had about $70 worth of orders even before we got word from Benjamin and Em. Uh oh! What had we done? B said that he would make a list and spread the word about our cookies during his chapter meeting on Monday. I was working at good ol' Whitey's when I received the message of our doom. "16 M&M, 14 Chocolate Chip, 3 Toffee Bars, 9 Double Peanut Butter, 8 Snickerdoodle." I almost fainted when I saw this. God Bless the ATO Boys, though! We love them as our own and we are so appreciative that they were so willing to help us out. We added up the number of dozens(50) and the number of cookies (600!!!!) for the boys alone. Any bets on the number of hours it will take or how many sticks of butter we will use can placed in the comments below. We will be sure to share the results with you. Inserted is our "Before" picture. We will soon be starting the dough-making process and there will be no turning back! Stay tuned for our wild week as Cookies for the Cure hits the road!