Scout Camp

Dave left for scout camp today leaving me a widow for the rest of the week. This is nothing new, I've done this before, but somehow this time seems worse...and it's just the first day! It seems that while he's at camp having fun, I'm the one earning all those merit badges. Here's the badges I've earned--

• Citizenship - For spending the past 2 days at the school for various talent shows and awards assemblies, all while keeping 3 little kids quiet
• Auto Mechanics - For the flat tire that had to be fixed
• Personal Management, Personal Finance, and Cooking - For getting all my errands done and managing to organize, buy and pack food for 15 hungry scouts/leaders for dinner all for under $20 (That's only $1.30/person and includes all the paper supplies!)
• Search & Rescue - (Not really a merit badge, but it should be.) For actually finding my lost 2 year old in a mass of 500 people at a track meet
• Climbing, Personal Fitness and Athletics - For hiking up & down the stairs at Spencer's track meet to get him to each event and take kids to the potty (many times!!)
• First Aid - For the smashed toenail on Davis thanks to the restroom door.
• Family Life - For continuing on with everything despite being alone and not wanting to
• Fishing - For retrieving a Gameboy out of the toilet AFTER it was used. Yuck!!

Needless to say, I miss Dave. Today was incredibly rough. I'm just hoping that tomorrow is a better day, because I really don't want any more merit badges. I'm not a very good widow and I really don't like it. Maybe because my married life is just too good. I think I need a little retail therapy to recover from today. Park City, here I come!!!