I remember the moment when I could no longer feed my son parts of my meal at a restaurant. He needed his own kids meal. There went our bill--up. Then our second son needed a kids meal; then our third. Our bill went up and up again. Tonight I realized something else. Kids meals don't provide enough food for our growing boys anymore. At least our two older sons. They ordered off the adult menu. There went our bill again--skyrocketing up. 4 adult meals and one kids meal, and just like that--we're in a new phase. I imagine someday soon I'll be writing about each of my boys ordering two adult meals. Hopefully by then they'll have jobs to pay for their extra calories. :)
We toured our newspaper office with the Cub Scouts tonight, during suppertime, which is why we treated ourselves out for supper. The boys enjoyed watching the printing presses. It was pretty neat. Lots of activity and lots of paper and ink. I think if I didn't choose nursing as my career choice, and eventually motherhood, I would've liked to be a writer.
Back to our supper. While we ate our meal, two elderly ladies came and sat at the table beside us. Seeing our boys in uniform, they talked on and on about their boys' Cub Scouting days. One son is 68 years old now, and her "baby" son is 62. Both of her sons were Cub Scouts, and eventually Boy Scouts. She asked Braylen about each and every badge on his shirt. She asked him which one was the hardest to earn, which one was his favorite, and so on. She took such delight in my boys. I think she could probably see her sons' faces on my sons tonight. She talked of the importance of scouting. Of teaching a boy how to present himself, be respectful of others, and eventually--how to get a job. After raising her boys in a small town, where everyone knows everyone, her 68 year old son now lives in Washington, D.C. In her words, he's the head of the press department at the White House. She's enjoyed Christmas dinner at the White House for the past two years. And what does she attribute a lot of her son's successes to? Boy Scouts.
Truthfully, Cub Scouts is more irritating to me than anything else. The boys are rowdy, loud, and obnoxious. Kaleb's learned a lot about the food pyramid and recycling, but couldn't he learn that in school? Derek tells me to hang in there--it will get better as they get older. The camp outs will be so beneficial for them. The ones who are serious about scouting will remain, while the obnoxious ones will drop out. (crossing my fingers for that day) I needed to hear what this lady had to say tonight. I needed to hear that our investments with scouting will pay off some day. And maybe this lady needed to see our Cub Scout sons tonight. Her eyes sure lit up while we talked. I love to see how God intersects our lives with others. Some people might call it a coincidence, but I call it a divine appointment. :)
All those other things I was going to blog about? I guess they'll have to wait until next time!
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