What a dang busy week!

Hola Peeps,

Sorry to keep you waiting with baited breath for the latest and greatest on my life.

Quick recap of my super busy week:

Monday - work. Met with a CR and had to give him the bad news about how bad his troop is currently behaving. Like children I say. Then went off to FHE in Dayton. It was a potluck and there were only 6 of us and I'd say there was enough food for 20! I thought I would be home by 8:15 and at 9:45 I was just rolling up. I was a little grumpy because I knew how busy this week was going to be but for sure it was the best day of my week.

Tuesday - SA Mtg in Salem, Dundee Elem. school for stickers. I got stopped at the gate by the secretary but somehow at least some of them got out. The join night was the most amazing one I've ever had. Not so much because of # of kids/families, but because the church, the sponsoring org is SOOO behind the effort. The pastor came and talked about why he hopes that families will choose scouting and what effect it's had in the lives of his two sons. And then he introduced his charter rep who took the bull by the horns and really encouraged the parents, etc. It's been just amazing. Two quick stories - two little Kindergardners saw each other and they ran up to each other and hugged and were like, I'm so excited you're going to do cub scouts with me. It was so precious...if only I'd had a camera.

Then, it was song time - and any Cub Scouters knows that we stand when we sing and we are really boisterous and funny. A sort of shy dad, although large in stature, didn't want to stand. He had two boys and those boys each grabbed an arm and just dug their heels in until dad succumbed. It was sooo sweet!

For 3 years, I've tried to get a pack there in Dundee. I believe the only reason it has legs is the partnership we have with the church.

Wed. WOrk and then traffic school. I wouldn't be so grumpy about this except I just spent 400 minutes with an online traffic school for another ticket. Thank goodness the lame trainer guy only took 3 instead of 4 hours. Still, 6-9:30 wasted...

Thursday - left at 8:00 AM for TIllamook and spent the entire day there. Met with camp peeps and then hit the storage unit. Ok, for who knows how many years, somehow the district got this storage unit. Wow, poor Billy came with his truck and is going to burn most of it but holy cow, there was a ton of JUNK in there. It's like we have stuff that we shouldn't have and stuff we don't need but in a relatively short amount of time we hauled a ton of stuff away and will do so even more now. Also, we'll try and get some shelves built to make catalouging the stuff and storing it easier. I don't know why no one has thought to do that much sooner but...hey.

Roundtable last night went well and I am anxious for Camporee this weekend with them. It will be really fun! The only distraction will be the SNOW. I'm not a hard core camper, I'll do it when I have to but SNOW in mid-April? Snow level is around 500 ft and we'll be at like 1200.

Ok, gotta run.

Sharon