In addition to college football, War Eagle SEC fans; Scouting season is upon us! Besides our dog, I am the only person to escape a "Scouting Outing" today:
My Boy Scout is camping, my WeBeLos is with his Dad aka Cub Master at the same camp (for Web's to visit and explore for the day), and my daughter is on her first Brownie camp-out with Girl Scouts. Water Bottles became highly coveted items!
My Boy Scout said "see ya" yesterday afternoon and my daughter hopped in the vehicle with her leader and didn't even look back. I'm happy she was comfortable enough to do this...right? We truly try to raise them to be okay without us, but it still stings a little! My WeBeLos did come back to give dear ol' Mom a hug. Of course this is my child who offers to wake up early to make me coffee =)
I am by no means exempt from Scout duty, as I have to force myself to be brave and complete my certificates for the boys who completed God & Me and God & Family. I am seriously procrastinating. My issue is this:
I have to complete each certificate and much to the surprise of my beloved Scouting Committee, I am actually a bit OCD myself =) Each one should be precise and spaced correctly, written on the provided lines without being too close or too far apart, etc. I was so honored to have spent these weeks with the boys and hearing what they had to say in response to short passages of scripture and my attempt to have them apply it to real life. They were amazing! How can this certificate possibly signify all the effort put forth?
Our pack meetings are SO busy we often rush through the various acheivements, even though I know some of us feel the tug of wanting to give more recognition. Hopefully the boys will continue with the other classes in the series. They now have an official Children's Pastor as part of the merger with the new sponsoring school.
Now that I no longer have the teaching position, I'm going to offer to be PR Chair. Goodness knows I can talk/type!
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It is nice to know that someone else's life is consumed with all this scouting stuff. Even though I took today off, did not go to the Camporee, and have been having a bit of a "girl's day" I know that tonight I need to start working on getting everything ready for POPCORN mania tomorrow. Nice way to spend a Saturday night, eh?
Are we crazy? It must me a labor of love, there is no other explanation! =0
Thanks for the work you do!! I haven't gotten ivolved with scouts as much as I should, but I like it that way! That is the boys thing for right now! (my boys don't have much in common other than scouts, so I let be theirs) I found out early in life if you suggest it, they will leave it on your plate to do!
Thanks again!
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