The Scouter's Wife and the Scout's Mother
 
If your laundry routine includes inspecting for red shoulder tabs ... you might be a Scouter's wife or a Scout's mother.
If a dab of Coleman fuel behind each ear is more alluring to your husband than Chanel No. 5 ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your laundry routine includes inspecting for blue cards in shirt pockets .. you might be a Scout's mother.
If a Thursday night family dinner consists of Whoppers in the car in the church parking lot .. you might be a Scouter's wife and a Scout's mother.
If you cook a nice pot roast for supper for the Scoutmaster because he came straight from work to a PLC meeting at your house, and then heat up the leftovers for your husband when he gets home, ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your only real vacation in 5 years involves driving from Maryland to Philmont with a carload of boys ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband plans a "night out with the boys", and you know that it will be a night _outdoors_ with boys ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your most memorable vacation with your husband was being the only woman in a crew of nine men and boys on the Allagash River in Maine .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you spend your honeymoon wearing green shorts and knee socks ... you might be a new Scouter's wife.
If your husband mutters in his sleep about a ticket, and you know we hasn't just caught speeding .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you've converted your dining room into an office, and your garage looks like L.L. Bean's attic .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband's tan line starts just above his knees, and ends three inches below his knees ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you have shelves of coffee mugs, and you don't drink coffee ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your best china cup has a 1865 Camporee logo on it .. you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband has disappeared, and you know you can always find him at Price Club trying to get a deal on #10 cans of peaches for cobbler ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you tell your husband you are expecting to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, and he thinks the PLC meeting is at your house tonight ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your husband brings home three rolls of red-white-and-blue ribbon to be sewn into Mothers' ribbons, and says "Don't worry, the Court of Honor isn't until tomorrow night and we only need 15 made" .. . and you don't have a sewing machine ... and you get it done ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If you just _know_ that the sun room will be finished, right after the next Goshen Bears workend ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If your family car seats 8, even though there are only 4 in your family ... you might be a Scouter's wife.
If the money collected for your memorial is used to but an air compressor for Scout Camp, and everyone thinks that is just right ... you were a Scouter's wife.
If you keep your Mother's ribbon, with the Eagle pin, with you _forever_, .. you were a Scouter's mother.