My weekend

[kz_blogorambling]

I can summarize it succinctly: Camping with a dozen 8-year-old boys is really something.

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[jamespolk.livejournal.com]

Especially when eventually somebody noticed you only came back with 9.

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

The leaders were very smart: Every kid had to have at least one parent there.

[beagledave.livejournal.com]

So how many fart jokes were told?

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Lord.

It was comforting to know I'm not mother to the most obnoxious 8 year old on the planet. They're ALL like that. Some are even worse.

[scout1222.livejournal.com]

Oh boy.

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to this.

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

It was pretty fun. One of the other moms, who has an older son in addition to her 2nd grader, said "I'm just a boy mom. I just love having sons."

And I totally got that. I mean, I know it sounds sexist and stereotyped and cliched, and mothers of girls might find that either eye-rolley or offensive, but I totally got her. There really is something special about boys (just like there is something special and unique about girls) and sometimes, one just revels in it. I know if I had a daughter I'd enjoy the special chickie things we'd do together (and yes, I'd take my daughter camping!). But the boy things are neat.

[geobabe1.livejournal.com]

I've said more than once that I'm glad I had boys. I love being a girl, but I'm not very girly, and I don't know if I could do all that girl-stuff with a daughter. There's only so much pink I can tolerate.

[100ofme.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. My boys can really drive me insane sometimes, like today for instance, but I'm not a very girlie girl. I couldn't teach a girl anything about makeup or hair or clothes and I was never very good with the boys so I wouldn't do very good in that dept. either. My boys are wild but the rest of them I get.

[davew0071.livejournal.com]

I had fun being father to a girl and I'm really enjoying being father to a teenage boy.

It's just different, and you find that you manage just fine.

[barbt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it doesn't have to be girly girl pink stuff. I went camping with a dozen 8-year old girls and it was way fun. And I can see how the boy thing would be neat in its way, too; I don't think that's sexist. Just a different kind of vibe, or whatever you want to call it. You love 'em and delight in what they are.

[davew0071.livejournal.com]

Camping with a dozen 8-year-old boys is really something....

...I'd avoid at all costs.