This week my friends, family, and followers on Facebook and Twitter have been subjected to my “Saga of the Cub Scout Day Camp” updates.  My 9yo son is a Bear in  Cub Scouts, and in order for his pack to go to camp, a handful of us needed to step up and volunteer for the [...]

(read the very last line on the box) Tonight my husband helped our son build a birdhouse for a Scout project. They’re thinking of painting “Hame Tweet Hame” on it when they’re done. Tweet This Post

Here’s my son working on his car for his first Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby.  Aren’t the safety goggles just TOO CUTE?! Tweet This Post

Sometimes I think I should only approach our family calendar with an inhaler close at hand.  The patchwork of places to be and times to be there scrawled across 30-odd tiny boxes often illicits a barely-contained panic and touch of hyperventilation.  Especially now that August is here. August in our family means Marching Band.  And [...]

I understood this to be the situation:  if one more parent from our Cub Scout pack didn’t step forward to volunteer, three of our boys couldn’t attend the week-long (super fun, much anticipated) Cub Scout Day Camp*.  I also understood that it was VERY difficult for our pack leader to get volunteers.  *(Day Camp, for [...]