Where I've been.

I led my two boys and a whole gaggle of their friends through Cub Scout Day Camp last week, and I'm still recovering. Recovering from the work that I missed, recovering from the severe thunderstorms that drove us from camp early and destroyed our tents on Tuesday morning, recovering from the tick that embedded his nasty little head into the soft flesh of my boob below the underwire of my bra. Asshole.

Advantages of Cub Scout Day Camp:

• $46 per week, per kid. Had I not been taking the week off to volunteer as their walking leader, I would have reveled in the cheap daycare, easily 1/3 what I pay for a normal week per kid in the summer.
• Watching boys be boys in their natural element - shooting BB guns and bow&arrows, catapults and slingshots.
• No need for makeup & hair. Just sunscreen and bug spray. 
• Wellies with shorts. It's a nice look. No, there's no pictures of that.

Disadvantages of Cub Scout Day Camp:

• Ticks. Specifically the one in my boob. I may have mentioned that already.
• There are no alcoholic beverages allowed at Cub Scout Day Camp.
• Golf-ball size hail is not repelled by nylon tent material.

Boys on the levee, overlooking the marsh that was the main field, Kings of Their Domain.