I'm just really not into the "Scouting Mom" mood at the moment. I suffered through last night's Girl Scout meeting and the only reason why I didn't cancel was because I had already canceled the first meeting of the month. And we really needed to plan our Thinking Day activities. (We are studying Jamaica, I'm thinking about keeping a bottle of rum behind the table for the adults. We'll need it.) Only 8 girls showed up (out of 14) and two were my twins so wasn't too bad. Maybe I just need to let the troop lose a few without pushing the moms to keep their girls in. Because I know for sure if I had called two moms and offered their daughters rides to and from, I would have had 2 more girls there last night. But you know, there's only one of me and I can only stretch so far.
Tonight we're hosting Zach's Cub Scout den (about 8 boys) here at the house. And somehow I'm planning pretty much the same activity as I did last year. Is it just me or do the Cub Scouts do the same stuff over and over? Each year they need to earn a Fitness badge and an Outdoor one and a Science one and a blah, blah, blah... At least with Brownies I have a book of about 60+ Try-Its to spread out over 3 years.
The ironic part about my burn out is that I'm pretty much slated to be Kelly's Daisy troop leader next year and unless some
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