We have one boy who is getting his Arrow of Light next month since his birthday is in October and he was one requirement short of getting his Outdoorsmen pin and so we decided that we would have a camp fire safety lesson and sit and roast marshmallows.
It was AWESOME! And it was the perfect temperature outside last night for having a camp fire. Chilly enough that you wanted to be near the fire but warm enough that you weren't shivering. We hung out with this one family for an hour talking and Aaron got to show their three boys how to make a fire and had them pick out the different sized sticks from the piles he had set up to make sure they knew the order of things.
Their mom told us that their grandmother had been burned as a small child and was terrified of anyone she knew getting near a fire and so they were happy we could do this at our house since there was no way that they would feel comfortable doing it at their house. (And their father is blind so it would be harder to keep track of all the little hands and fingers trying to "help").
The original plan was to have this get together from 6:30-7:30. Two of the parents told us that their child couldn't make it till 7:00 and we said that that was okay.
So at 7:26 when we only had one family there, we decided that no one else was coming and put out the fire.
At 7:32, 3 boys showed up at our house. So we went back into our yard and started another fire. This one was harder to start since some of the wood had just been covered in water. But we got the boys to make a fire and roast their own marshmallows while we talked about what the next couple months of scouting had in store for all of us.
I'm really sad that summer is over and we won't be able to go on hikes or do much of anything outside anymore. I can't believe that we've been in scouting for over a year. It has been so much fun for us and we hope the boys as well.
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