Noelle’s been talking about her school fund raiser all week… it’s so funny to me how the school pumps the kids up and then they come home so excited, but not about the product but about the prizes, of course!  They don’t focus on selling techniques, like what the money goes to buy, how much the bars cost, or how to make the chocolate sound like a must-have… they sell the kids the prizes!  Noelle was raving about the bounce house party, the ice cream pass, and most of all, being king or queen for the day (the top seller of the whole school).  She said in the sweetest little girly girl voice, “You get the royal treatment, Mom!” 

After I read the letter, I explained to her that only one kid in the entire school gets “the royal treatment.”  Anyway, she and I talked about selling techniques and she pretending to sell the candy to me for the rest of the day.  We practiced math a bunch based on how many bars I decided to buy.  I kept putting them back and changing my mind on the quantity (most fun math lesson ever, we were both cracking up), and I was a tough sell.  I said, “How do I know they are fresh?” and she said, “Because they are made OF scratch, Ma’am!”  Haha!  And then Anna Kate piped in and said she doesn’t want any because they have sugar in them and that they’re not healthy, and Noelle said, “Wow, Anna Kate, that’s a good observation!”  Our kids are so cool!

I need to record her sales pitch.  She’s a natural!  I LOVE it when the kids bring home something you actually want to buy that doesn’t cost more than a couple of bucks.  That’s my kind of fund raiser.  I bought all the Milk chocolate with Almonds… our favorite!  The last time I tasted the World’s Finest Chocolate was when I sold them in middle school choir, and I’ve dreamed about them ever since… or at least never forgot they were the best chocolate bars I’ve ever had!  Score with a fund raiser that’s actually fun too!