Just catching up on the end of June.  Scott was enjoying his time off school. He spent his time cleaning his room and his turtle tank. Also preparing for Boy Scout camp. He has pre requisites to complete for his upcoming badges, so he finished up the research. Now he just has to pack. He is just so happy not to be studying!  Before he heads off to boy scout camp though, he is going to be volunteering at Cub Scout Day camp. He needs volunteer hours for his Honor Society in school next year, as well as his Tech Honor Society. He is happy to be scheduled to work the Science and STEM station. This year's theme is bugs. On Sunday afternoon, we headed to the fairgrounds where they hold the day camp for training. That lasted about an hour, and it gave Scott extra time to practice his driving there and back home. Tom also took him out driving during the week. His driving test is scheduled for mid July. We also are practicing parking and backing up. I still cannot believe that they eliminated parallel parking as part of the test. I guess they figure newer cars are doing it for everyone, so they don't need to learn! Crazy! Of course, we all try to avoid parallel parking if we can, even though we know how to do it.

Scott wanted to enjoy some of his time off, so he invited a few friends over on Friday night(thank goodness he did not have to work). He even offered to cook for his friends, so we picked up some burgers and chips on Friday afternoon and he grilled out. He had a few friends over Friday night and after dinner they played video games and watched a movie. It is weird that he has friends that can drive themselves over to our house now. Scott kicked them out at 10pm though. He did not want to entertain too late into the night!

And on Saturday he was off to work in the afternoon. I picked him and my mom up after he got off work and took both to the hair salon. Scott got a summer hair cut and mom stayed longer for a perm. Meanwhile, Scott and Tom picked up one of our scouts who was attending another Eagle celebration near our house. The boy needed a ride home and I promised his mom that we would help them out.  She is always doing us favors and giving Scott a ride when he needed one. Since it was getting late, I picked up dinner for mom at Burger King at dropped her off to her place around 8pm. Tom ended up inviting our neighbors over for drinks and dessert later that evening out on our patio. They had us over  when I got back from Ocean City so we owed them one. We tried sitting out on the patio, but there were a lot of bugs. A screened in porch sure would come in handy. So we made it an early evening.

Before heading over to Scott's scout training on Sunday afternoon, we spent the day working outside in the yard. Tom was busy cutting the grass, and Scott and I spent the day trimming trees and shrubs in the backyard. We have a couple of trees that grew branches over our neighbor's fence, and I wanted to trim them before anything broke off into their yard. Or fell and broke the fence for that matter. Scott did the trimming and cutting, and I did the clean up.

Allison did not get to come home for the weekend. She had spent her first week up in camp training, and this past week the first summer campers arrived. Before the week long campers showed up, she worked a Mommy and Me weekend camping trip. Unfortunately, she started feeling ill. Turns out she was sick to her stomach for about two weeks. She seemed to have developed a stomach virus and it really got in the way of work. She spent two days sleeping at the nurse's cabin in the air condition. She was also having problems with her allergies. She stopped into a Patient First clinic during a break over the weekend to make sure it was nothing more serious. They gave her some anti nausea pills along with Benadryl for her allergies. Allison and the rest of the family has been taking allergy medication for years, but not usually Benadryl. Allison is not used to it, and she ended up nodding off during arts and crafts, dragged her feet on the hike and finally fell asleep next to the swimming pool. Fortunately she is feeling so much better and has been enjoying the camp food once again. Since she did not make it home the first weekend, I sent her off a care package.

The last week in June I ended up taking off work on Tuesday. One of the girls at work wanted to switch days off with me. Turns out it was June 27, our wedding anniversary. I spent the morning at the dentist with my mom. She had more dental work that needed done and I had my yearly cleaning. I also had taken Scott to his dentist appointment the week before early in the morning before going to work. We are keeping the dentists busy!  Mom and I enjoyed our day out together. First the dentist, then lunch and shopping before I dropped her back to her apt.

I had to pick up Scott. He had started working at Cub Scout Day Camp this last week in June. It is an early start. The boys have to be to camp by 7:30, so I was dropping him off before work at the Fairground and getting home early. With plenty of time to get to the parent's scout meeting on Monday evening. On Tuesday night, Tom and I decided to celebrate our 30th Anniversary with dinner out. I had a gift certificate to the Iron Bridge Wine company that we have been wanting to use. The restaurant is in a small house and always incredibly crowded. They put out a Happy Anniversary card for us at our table and gifted us with two glasses of champagne. We enjoyed cheese, sausage and cracker appetizers, steak and salmon dinners and chocolate creme brulee for dessert along with a glass of wine. Tom bought me some pearl earrings to mark our 30th. I mentioned that pearls were the old gift and diamonds were for the new tradition. Tom is old fashioned.  He also had to get home to pack. He had an overnight trip to San Diego for work and had an early start on Wends morning. On Weds night there was a scout meeting. I am busy putting together our August camping trip and outing to Six Flags. On Thursday night I dropped in on Mom for an early 4th of July BBQ at her apt. We all sat outside and enjoyed burgers and hot dogs, chicken and ribs. It was quite tasty. They also had a musician playing patriotic songs during dinner. On Friday night, Scott was back to work after a long day at Cub Scout camp. He enjoyed his time, but was pretty worn out. He spent most of the week making fidget spinners(not exactly the bug theme we thought it would be). Fidget spinners keep the kids occupied(if you haven't seen them) with a small triangular top that sits on your finger while you spin it. They are ideal for kids with ADD. Scott and I thought it was hysterical that they made so many when they were banned during his training session before camp started.  He spent 3 days building fidget spinners with hundreds of cub scouts, and then they switched to catapults and paper airplanes. The adult Scout Leaders were very grateful for all of Scott's hard work.

By Friday night, he was worn out and not feeling well. When he mentioned his ear was starting to hurt, I quickly made him a doctor appointment for Saturday morning. I did not want him going off to Boy Scout camp with an ear infection. And I did not want a repeat of last summer!