Over the past couple of weeks, I have a lot to be thankful for. My wife will tell you that I am not someone who she really wants to be around, as I have seemed to be grumpy over the course of the last month or two.
I will say that work has been pretty stressful…an ongoing project with looming deadlines that don’t look like are going to be met, is something that is hanging over all of our heads. We have all heard of missing deadlines, and not getting the work done will be catastrophic. In my case, it will be. If this project doesn’t launch on Valentine’s Day, our whole IT department could be let go and contractors brought in. That’s pretty stressful.
On the more positive side, the troop is clicking along…I know that I posted some negative things from last week and my disappointment into the low crossover numbers that I will be having. I was really hoping that I would be closer to 16-17 scouts, but as it turns out, I have only recruited 4 Webelos and got one new boy to join. Not the numbers that I was looking for, but as one commented, it’s quality, not quantity…and no, this isn’t a dig on Bryan Spellman.
Speaking of quality, I ran through the JTE last night…come to find out, we are GOLD. Yea, pretty excited about that, but after plugging the numbers, I really didn’t realize how well were doing with the Guidelines that the BSA set forth. Does this mean that we have hit the pinnacle and there isn’t anywhere else to go? Nope, it’s a gauge on how we are doing…in other words, what are we, members of Troop 1363, doing to make our unit the best that it can be. As for now, we are doing things pretty spot on.
On with the thanks
Thanks to my wife for being there when I am grumpy, even when she is dealing with her own demons
Thanks to my scouts, who have come a long way since we started the troop, and who keep coming with ideas on their own to make the troop better
Thanks to the leaders in my troop, who have drank the Kool-Aid are helping me achieve the goals of a boy-led program
Thanks to my scouting friends, both online and in-person (if that’s correct…I mean, everyone is in-person, aren’t they?)
There are many more thanks that I have, this just touches the surface of them.
I know that it’s late, but I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year.
Nice post..
No dig noticed
I commented to another ASM that I would rather just 10-12 Crossovers this year of a quality Scout then 25 of herd mentality…a mom of a Scout (and pack leader of a local unit) heard and pissed in my ear. While I wanted to tell her (and the ASM did) was that if she did not like it, she could take her son and find another Troop. What I said was that I would love to take all the Webelos but we got to save some for the other units, big smile. The ASM I was talking with gave her an earful (listening to others talk, etc)…I had to stifle a laugh and walk away.