All I really hope to get from being a mentor is that I possibly changed someones life for the better and that someday they will think back and realize what the mentors did and do the same when they grow older. I never really had any kids personally thank me this year either, but I know how kids are and it doesn't really bother me, I was a kid once to. I put in over 400 hours of my own time, hours and hours away from my own kids, my job suffered from phone and emails arranging hotels, meetings, travel, payments, spent my own money on things and stressed my whole family, not to mention my knees and feet hurt for a week after the championship..........but you know what, I'm already itching to go for next year. It's just something about FIRST. I love it.
