Scouting and Covid-19
A couple of years ago, The Boy Scouts of America opened up their 11-18 year old troops for girl troops, and my girls wanted in. When we had lived in Arkansas, they had each had their own Girl Scout troop (separated by age) and my boys had a BSA troop and a cub scout den. Needless to say, driving my 4 children to their 4 separate troops was exhausting. The kids loved it, but there was no time to volunteer with all of the separate events going on all the time (in addition to their other activities). A few years ago, we moved to Texas (where ALL the jobs are, people!) and my youngest son started attending a local troop. We weren't ready to jump in whole-hog. Later, my oldest girl joined a Girl Scout troop - which she loved but met unpredictably and required the dreaded cookie sales. So when news came that her troop was folding and that BSA was allowing girl troops (that could be linked to boy troops), I wanted in. We started a girl troop in conjunction with the boy troop, s
