Sunday, September 12, 2010
Old friends with kids
This weekend, Jennifer and I attended a reunion of Troop 82 Providence, the Boy Scout troop that I belonged to when I was a kid. I hadn't seen most of these guys since we all gathered in December 1988 to mourn the passing of our scoutmaster, Donald C. Dewing. So it was a treat to see them all more than 20 years later, the boys I'd grown up with and almost all with kids of their own. Many were young, 6 or 7 years old, others were in their mid to late teens, and all were welcomed to the Troop 82 family. As we sat on a picnic table at Yawgoog Scout Reservation, Jennifer turned to me and said, "next time we have one of these reunions, we'll have one of our own running around." I'm looking forward to that and is just another reason I'm now eagerly awaiting the next get-together.
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Before we adopted our son we were constantly around other people with their children. It can be very rough and people are not very sensitive about these things. This past year we had to deal with 3 couples in our family all having children. Now one of them is pregnant again. It is painful when you have been married almost a decade with one child and the 3 marriages together don't even equal 6 years and will total 5 kids. My prayer for you is that God will take away the pain you may feel and prepare you for the blessing you desire.
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