Posts Tagged “Scouting”
This was the last year that Ciáran would be going to Cub Scout resident camp, and the week we went also happened to include his birthday. Oh, we made sure it was memorable. As you might expect, one of the first stops as soon as possible was the climbing wall. And that is Xavier climbing…
So much happened over the last few months, we were so busy I didn’t have much time to work on this blog as you can tell from the lack of posts. Let me catch you up on some of the highlights since June. You might remember the last post just before my unplanned hiatus included, among…
This year I am only leading one den of Cub Scouts. After two years of dual den leadership I am quite happy that I only have one den as with everything else that is going on with the other kids it is going to be a ridiculously busy year as it is. With so much…
It was a busy week, the first with the kids out of school, but most of the activities in this installment happened over the weekend. First up was Xavier’s final game of the season. Then there was the crossing-over ceremony. Instead of a Blue & Gold banquet in February, which is when a number of…
Shut up, I know this isn’t going up on a Friday. Life happens. Let’s start with a few of the last pictures I’m going to share from the Washington D.C. trip. Here is August at Monticello next to a stature of “Tommy Jeff” (as the kids were saying). At the University of Virginia they have…
Boy Scouts of America have announced a couple of changes. The first and more immediate one I particularly like. The latest campaign “Scout Me In” is not only catchy, but inclusive. This helps to get across the message that everybody is welcome, including girls into Cub Scouts and very soon into Boy Scouts. It was…
Last Saturday was one of the busiest we have had in a while. August was at a robotics extravaganza, Xavier was at his baseball game and went to a birthday party, Déla served at a funeral and had a birthday party to attend, along with a couple of other items I know I am forgetting….
I know it has been a couple of weeks, I have already addressed why. Let’s move on. This is going to be a big update, plenty of stuff having taken place since the last one of these, including a lot of Cub and Boy Scout stuff – but that is, of course, not all. How…
Surprisingly, I haven’t taken many pictures the last couple of weeks. Of the pictures that WERE taken, here are the ones that are relevant. Grace is figuring out how to “draw” only usually it’s on the wall. Xavier was the “star” student last week, and needed a picture of his family for his “about me”…
Alright, so it’s been a couple of months, and I’ve addressed part of that earlier this week. Let’s just jump into the pictures and catch up on things. We’re going to start off with a picture of Grace, smiling as usual. Tevye attended his first birthday party back in December. It was at a bouncy…