In Relationships with Family

• You have told your daughter that she may quit scouting at any time. However, you will not quit with her.
• You beam with pride as you watch your daughter lead Brownies and not need your assistance at all!
• Your extra adult doesn't show up to help drive and you ask your husband, and he gladly turns off a football game to help
• You find your daughter in her room Brownie handbook open, learning the Promise in sign language. She tells you (in a tone which implies the simplest person would think of this) she is doing this in case she ever can't talk during a meeting, she can still 'say' the promise!
• You're planning a Juliette's birthday chat and have no plans so far for your daughter's 18th birthday that weekend
• Your teenage daughters beg you NOT to wear your patch jacket into the grocery store after your troop meeting and you don't. Then while you're standing in the checkout line the checkout girl says "I know you - wait a minute, I know - You're the Girl Scout leader with all the patches on your jacket." And yes that was my daughters you saw "just dying of embarrassment."
• The Council Historians stop you while you're at the council offices and tell you they'd like your patch jacket for the archives "when you're done with it" and when you tell your family, your daughter says "No way - we're going to lay you out in it when you're gone - that way you can be a Girl Scout forever and wear it in Heaven because then we'll know you're happy." (that one made me laugh and cry all at the same time.)
• Your family tours Europe and you HAVE to see PAX Lodge and Our Chalet, and your husband says, "Wouldn't this be a great experience for our daughters?"
• You and your daughters love practicing all their outdoor skills, using their Girl Scout training, whenever the family goes camping. (Love those dunk bags!)
• Your husband and son both "volunteer" their weekend in November to teach Patrol Leaders photography
• You can't remember a relative's birthday, but you do remember Juliette Low's.
• You have more photos of your troop than of your family.