2013高中英语 The Little Girl Scout阅读素材

1 TheThe LittleLittle GirlGirl ScoutScout I admit it I m not cut out to be a soccer Mom I m not class Mom material either I don t bake homemade chocolate chips In fact when my daughter Alexa was in kindergarten as part of a Why I Love My Mommy Mother s Day project her teacher asked her to name her favorite dish that Mom cooks I don t have one she said Oh sweetheart there must be something your mother cooks that you love A special dinner Your favorite dessert My Mommy doesn t cook She must make something her increasingly desperate teacher insisted Jell O After lengthy consideration my daughter listed cereal So it was with much trepidation that I recently learned Alexa wanted to be a Brownie I am a Mom who is great at making up stories singing off key songs at bedtime and remembering the names of every Pokemon But with three kids a dog a rabbit a parrot and a veritable aviary of finches life in our household is disorganized at best Dinner is a haphazard affair I flunked Home Economics in high school Clearly I did not have the makings of a Brownie badge earning mom Are you sure I asked trying to mask my dread Her delighted yes sealed my fate I made it through the camping trip even through crafts Then came the year s highlight the sale Mentally I counted my immediate family I figured they were good for about ten boxes I d buy a few as well That brought Alexa to a total of fifteen boxes or so not too shabby Her dad picked her up after the sale meeting Horrified I watched as they struggled through the door with six CASES of s Cases After coming to I managed to sputter What s all this Her s my husband answered Each girl is assigned six cases to sell 2 But what if we can t sell all these We bring them back he said No big deal Oh no Mommy Alexa cried out We have to sell them all We just have to I ll be the laughingstock of the troop if I don t One of the other Brownies told me that last year not one girl brought back any s Apparently we were going to be hitting up Grandma for a lot more than the four boxes I had mentally sold to her After ten days of ferocious selling we had managed to sell a case and a half s were stacked in my home office from floor to ceiling or at least that s how I remember it I dreamed at night of Thin Mints chasing me down dark alleys After four more days of selling we still had four cases of s Then came one of those days that happen to Moms like me On that particular day the dog jumped in the lake after a duck The duck escaped but my dog resembled the Creature from the Black Lagoon One dog bath one muddy Mom and thirteen towels later the dog was clean But my two year old son had been suspiciously quiet during the whole ordeal In fact all the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end Even more than kitchen pot banging TV blaring and loud bickering all Moms dread the silence You know that silence Alexa I said emerging from the bathroom mud clinging to my hair where s your brother I dunno I went tearing through the house Was he coloring on my bedroom walls again No I raced to the kitchen Spilling cereal on the floor No He must be in his room Was he climbing on top of his dresser pretending to be Superman again Not there Nicholas I called out Then fearing my computer keyboard was being covered in apple juice I ran to my office There sat Nicholas Surrounded by sixty one opened boxes of Girl Scout s In fact he had the cellophane for the next pack in his teeth attempting to bust open another box Thin Mints Peanut Butter Buddies Shortbread Dreams or whatever the heck they re called were splayed from one end of the room to the other s were crushed beneath his chubby little feet and crumbs covered his rosy c