Thanks. I appreciate yours as well. It's been an interesting trip for me. I was in as a youth from Bobcat to Life. Summer Camp staff (Camp Child in Buzzards Bay, MA and Owasippe Scout Reservation in Whitehall, MI), high adventure canoe trip (Matagamon Canoe Base, ME), OA, PL, SPL, JASM, etc. I left Scouting as a youth when I came back from college with my hair down my neck some and got pulled aside by my Scoutmaster and Committee Chair and was told that I looked like a pimp (when I tell our current Scouts this, I have to tell them that at the time, that was an insult, not a compliment). They seemed kind of mad, as if they didn't want me around, so I took the hint.
Fast forward to when my son became Cub age. My wife took him to the round-up, came home (I was speaking at a professional society meeting), and told me that the Pack needed a Cubmaster and that her relating of my Scouting career had piqued the unit committee's interest. I became Cubmaster. Then Scoutmaster, starting up a Troop when my son's Webelos den graduated. That was about 13 years ago. When my son graduated, I stepped down to ASM and promptly got recruited to become District Commissioner. I'm also still on the Pack Committee and am a not-particularly active Associate Advisor for a Venture Crew that went to Japan on a cultural exchange. So I have a few uniforms hanging in my closet, and I'm still going on campouts with the Troop (this last weekend, in fact) and taking Scouts on high adventure canoe trips into Canada.
Heck, if I don't do this my wife will expect me to work around the house!
You get that too? But yes, it was the same for me. I was a high school teacher when my son's cubmaster announced that he was retiring and I was asked to take over. Cubs was not as much fun for me, but I did it until my son moved across the Webelos bridge. (In my day it was Wolf, Bear, Lion , Scout BTW) Once in the scouts, my son broke his leg the first camping trip -- playing capture the flag in the dark of course --. But he healed and stuck it out. We had a lot of good leaders and everyone pitched in. But when he graduated from High School (by this time I was back in an engineering job) we sold the house and my wife and I hit the road. I have no doubt my son (now graduating from AU) will give back to the organization as well.