When we got home from the reunion, there was a Email letting me know that pack 17 has officially been disbanded. I was thrown for a loop as we have spent a good part of our summer working on requirements best done in summer. The last word I had gotten from the Pitts family was an email from them showing a postitive side to the pack looking forward to the upcoming year, I had not gotten any word that they were still looking a closing the pack, so this was out of the blue for us. The boys are very disappointed as Christian was so excited about being a tiger, and Nathan just flat out enjoyed it.
On top of this Lacy is supposed to be joining a new brownie troop after her troop disbanded...and we have not heard word on it. Very discouraging!
I am seeking now where to go with them. I would like them involved in some outside activities, but is seems to me like scouting is a bust. Now we have to step back and regroup, since I was coordinating their homeschool stuff with there scouting stuff. I will take a look at 4H and see what we have going at local churches. We have AWANA here, but the groups are so large, and when I had Nathan in a couple of years ago as a cubbie, 2ce they had to go looking for him as he just wandered out of the class room. Not very encouraging!
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I am very sorry that your this upset with the outcome of the pack. While you were gone we lost another family and Robb and I just couldn't hold it together anymore. For over a year now our family has put forth an enormous amount of time, effort and energy that we just don't have anymore. It got down to 7 boys and NO leaders. We didn't have anymore fight left. Yes, sudden in a way but Robb and I have been feeling the burden of this pack for sometime and we just couldn't keep trying. I do apologize for this..There was NO family that was willing to take on our roles and try to keep the pack running when we stepped away so we had to make the decision to close it, because we couldn't do it anymore. At one time, this pack meant everything to us.. but that feeling doesn't keep it running. I had to break the news to the boy's as well that we were not continuing at ALL in scouts and that was a tough one to have. Brandon wanted the Arrow of Light and now it's not possible. Our family is just burnt out with it. It's sad because we've devoted 2 years to this and thought we were going to go the long haul. I hope this doesn't affect our friendship. I am praying our friendship wasn't based on Scouting alone. I hope to hear from you. Blessings
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