Junior fair board

Sometime last summer, Thomas announced to us that he was interviewing for a position on the county fair board.  He wanted to be part of either the "dog" group, or the boy scout group.  To be honest, I didn't even begin to understand what he was really talking about it.  He had to go through an interview process.  I can only assume the idea came from something he learned about in FFA, an organization we love!  Shortly after the interviews, he found out he had been selected as the representative for Boy Scouts.  Now, this child of ours had not been involved in scouting in YEARS, so we weren't really sure about this.  And then we found out it was the ONLY group that didn't have an adult advisor.  He was literally on his own.  We weren't overly impressed with the junior board advisor either.  Thomas learned early on that she didn't particularly respond to emails.  I know it was a very, very frustrating experience for him.

We could not be more proud of him though.  Andrew and I both admitted that we absolutely would have just given up and not spent much time thinking about it.  Not Thomas though.  Earlier in the year he had asked his dad to have some things laminated that he could display at his booth during last week's county fair.  And last week, he spent his Tuesday afternoon setting up his booth and hanging out at the fair.  He was able to assist the "dog" group with the dog show that evening as well, which he loved.  He left everything up for display during the week, and on Saturday he made a trip back to the fair grounds to retrieve everything.  Our kiddo literally did absolutely everything on his own, completely by himself.  Andrew and I were available for anything he asked, but he made all the plans and completely handled things.  We are so proud and so impressed!