My Everest…

It was the last meeting of the year for the scouts and it was decided that instead of having them stuck in the hall that we would take them out to a local ice cream shop.  So we gathered our leaders and parent volunteers.  As usual there are always the last few parents that you need to find that have not filled out the proper permission slips.

This causes a tad bit of stress!   But we got this !! Take attendance and we are off…slowly but surely as we have the little ones in tow it’s not a far walk (7mins) for the avg human but we get stopped by a train on the way…etc.  When we get to the ice cream shop the girl says we weren’t expecting you today ! Huh??  I ask did you get the message about us not coming last week?  Yes….then you didn’t get the end part that said we were coming today instead.  All is good !! They put up a sign that says ‘back in a moment’ and take all of us in 20 or so of us in. Show us a few things here and there.  We all get ice cream and sit

for a bit….but there is one kid that is crying and unhappy, and showing his attitude!  One of the leaders tell me that he didn’t get the right flavour of ice cream.  My stress level goes up as this one alway gives everyone a hard time…i’m like he wanted vanilla, he got vanilla.  He’s saying there are different kinds of vanilla!!  I’m like not in this store!!  It’s like I answered another one of  the other kids’ questions.  You get what you get and are happy!! We aren’t paying for it, the parent volunteer organization is so just say thank you!!  On the walk back home I get stuck dealing with the difficult boy he’s sulking and kicking things and walking in glass that I just told everyone was there.   His Listening ears are turned off , I try to ignore it  but at this point I am ready to be done.  I’m tired and everything is starting to bug me. I chat with another instructor briefly before something else happens on our walk.   Finally we are at the home stretch !! We are late coming back but I had someone go and tell the parents that we were on our way!  They didn’t seem to mind. I lock eyes with the boy’s parent and all I say is that he has a lot of growing up to do before he goes anywhere for now.  He nods agreement and i’m hoping that if he goes to camp it will help with that. I come home exhausted mentally and I sit down and I am just so very tired. I watch some tv for a bit and think to myself going to sleep is going to be great as i will just lie down in bed and drift off.  Na na boo boo !! NOPE ! I don’t know why but i can’t turn my head off from that one kid.  My shoulders and neck are sore too but flare bear shouldn’t be playing games??? Or is he?? He definitely is!  I let the stress of the adventures get to me.  In turn the flare bear is going to play his games and we are going to get this all to calm down somewhat before we get going to physio.   We win some and lose some but now I can get some rest until we start up again after the summer.  The kids will go to camp and gain some experiences and hopefully “grow” up a bit and then we can have some more fun with them.   For now I rest and wait for the flare bear to chill out !