<p>there is a reason why prez and vice prez don’t travel together.
…
nah
go for it!!
Edward is old fashioned and very protective of his charge. wait, I am mixing up here totally.
Is there possible werewolf tribe around there for hire?</p>
<p>are you both heavily insured, yes? to cover next three years CMU plus another batch of 4 years Ivy, maybe law school to top off?
…
nah
go for it!!!</p>
<p>Oh ho! I will join you all and lift a virtual glass of cabernet to all of you wonderful Moms!
Yum!</p>
<p>FAM I am sure they will be fine. I think the age difference is an advantage. He will want to take care of his little sister. The school field trip will break up the week well. </p>
<p>I am seeing signs of adulthood here, and trying not to micromanage. Baby Swits has been working every day. Lawn mowing gigs, and he has a kind of daily gig of helping a guy pack up his house for a move. The micromanaging thing comes in when I suggest keeping a calendar of all the jobs, the phone calls are coming fast and furious because he emailed a bunch of neighborhood list serves, and people here are desperate for babysitters etc…He has a little book where he writes stuff down, but I watch him write phone numbers, and not who they belong to etc…Also, he has been starting the moving job at 1 pm every day, and when I asked why 1 pm, he said “its kind of whenever I want to start”. Well Im not really complaining, its just funny to watch. </p>
<p>Part of it is that he doesnt wave a flag when he does something well, so he is busy leading his life competently, and I have no idea because I just witness the sleepy teenager with the bad memory. But I gave him a ride from one job to the next because of the rain, and ran into the guy he was helping move, who said what a blessing it has been to have baby Swits around. Other evidence that he has grown up, he applied for an art competition thing (Utrecht) without telling me, or rather, without being told to by me. </p>
<p>So a glass of wine to all of us! I actually am big on that raspberry belgium beer stuff, cant think of the name right now.</p>
<p>Also, about husbands, mine b<em>tches at me about stuff when he is stressed out, and it is always the kind of stuff I have learned not to b</em>tch at him about because I would be nagging none stop… Pot calling the kettle black much?</p>
<p>Ahhhhh, Lambic. Framboise is the raspberry one, they also have apricot and something else. I love that stuff too. Technically it’s beer, but it takes like slightly alcoholic raspberry soda. </p>
<p>fammom - I think your kids will be OK. It’s good that the older one has to take care of the younger one and bring her to and from school. That should keep them both honest most of the time. Also, tell your elderly neighbors that troublemaking teenagers often do NOT make a lot of noise but lots strange cars in front of your house might be a dead giveaway.</p>
<p>Greeny yeah that’s the thing. I get to feel Like a grownup while drinking raspberry soda.</p>
<p>well…not too worried about wild parties at house but more about D spending time with wrong friends without S checking on what they are up to. For him…my worries are driving since he is still a bit out of practice. However, like switters I am marveling at what a year at college can do for a boy/man. It used to be the only time he did any work was either in a last minute panic or because I was nagging. </p>
<p>But, while also a late riser, S has started memorizing his lines for the community play, knocked out a couple of assignments for online class and is already a week ahead, tracked down a used copy of the text book from friend who goes to the same CC, helped a friend move out of Georgetown dorms, ran a bunch of errands for me, found a replacement phone for the one he lost, has sent some art off to a friend, and is currently outside drawing?!? and done all his old chores without me saying a word…wow…very nice.</p>
<p>Egads… your kids DO so much, lol. D1 paints for half an hour and then claims she’s ‘exhausted’. She did get to her painting class last night, which was good since she skipped it last week. She says she wants to go back to MICA in January – and I’ve tried to encourage her to call them and see what her options are. She is clearly not ready to go back in September. Still have my tongue clamped firmly between my teeth. I worry about what will happen when we are both home all day. Might not be a good scene, I’m not convinced that I can keep my mouth shut. All I can do is try. So far no replacement job has moved off the hazy horizon and closer to reality, but I remain hopeful.
D1 is off to the doctor today… hopefully there will be a big medication adjustment that will help the situation. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
In the meantime, I’m hoping Aspie girl’s SAT scores will be available next week (not that that will mean a lot because I think we are pretty set on having her go to a local CC, probably half time). It’s a shame because she is at least a commended student and perhaps a semifinalist for the PSAT/NMSQT scholarship thing. Oh wells. She is still balking at the college essay English assignment. I wrote to the teacher to please just give her something different to do, this task is shredding her already shredded self esteem.
Big weekend for manga girl with the glow in the dark paint project. I’m going to hide out in my room or something.</p>
<p>Hi Glutenmom,
Your D1 is on my mind today. Hearing that she has her sights set on getting back to MICA in January is fantastic. She is picturing her future and from my own experience with down periods in my life, those visions are what allows one to keep on keeping on. Even if those visions don’t always materialize. I wonder if she would consider taking a class or two locally while she is figuring things out? It would be great to have a back up plan in case MICA won’t allow her to enter in January. I do believe you are in the NY area. There is the Art Students League in NYC or continuing ed classes at SVA and Parsons. Has the idea of Purchase ever come up again?
Oh, so close but so far…I wish I could meet her and hang out for a while and talk with her about her dreams. I wish someone could have done that for me when I was her age. It can be sooo hard to come into your own. And some of us are late bloomers and ultra sensitive. We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. I am giving her a virtual hug.</p>
<p>oh mamabear
give me one! I need one!!</p>
<p>you’ve got it…a super bear sized hug!</p>
<p>just that I happened to know you are, like, size 0.
'tis OK, size does not matter. feeeeeeelllinnnng does!!!</p>
<p>and thanx for saving that money counting kid. I started to feel somewhat responsible but now that I know it’s in good hands.
that goes to you too fammom, mom4, bigtime.
now I’d wonder, what happened to the Wisconsin engineering Tiger cub. remember him?
where have all the children gone?</p>
<p>Hey bears are you going to the end of year Cooper show? Baby Switters and babylove have pieces in show. I was hoping for a report.</p>
<p>yay yay
starts 23rd, right? I got check time, the guard won’t let us in.
hope I can take some very bad photos.
oh it’s tomorrow?</p>
<p>now where is the tiger family?</p>
<p>general review in Cooper thread
for launchers
switts and love, your kiddee’s hand made books are in the same nice glass case together… awwww
could I have missed something else?
some freshman had like, five or six pieces in deferent rooms/areas.
I’ll try to do photo some other day but don’t count on it. donno how to uploard if not from my old camera, which battery gotten roasted in Italy thus I can only do plug in with extension cord, which might be impossible to do at the gallery.</p>
<p>D1 and D2 headed south today to visit Grandma with a friend and to scour her attic for old unwanted furniture. Their first parent-free long road trip.</p>
<p>error #1 - they leave at the beginning of rush hour… ouch… going in the worst possible direction…ouch again… and then they compound this with…</p>
<p>error #2 - they go the wrong way on the Beltway. At least it’s a circle. They should hopefully be in North Carolina by now. Unless they’re still just going around and around. I’ll probably be adding to this list!</p>
<p>G
I am sorry to say that the visual popped in my head was
Thelma & Louise</p>
<p>Haha, if they run into Brad Pitt, they’ll be very, very happy! They didn’t arrive at Grandma’s until 4 AM. Maybe they did run into Brad Pitt… </p>
<p>D1 says she feels “just fine” and enjoyed her extra beach day by driving at night. Me, I’m enjoying a few days with a little more peace and a little less laundry.</p>
<p>Ah… road trips! But two of yours off on their own, Greenie! I remember one Christmas when I was in college and my parents went to my Grandparents in Germany that year and left the five of us to drive to my Dad’s Dad all on our own. I (the oldest) was in college and my brother and my sister could also drive – and it was a five hour trip over the ‘grapevine’ in California. We had some of the same issues as your Ds – left in time to hit rush hour through L.A., got on the freeway going the wrong way at Laval rd (back over the grapevine – turn around at Fort Tejon); and then had to navigate backroads to the ‘ranch’ in the Sierra foothills. I can’t imagine my kids doing anything similar.<br>
Just this evening I had asked D1 to text me when she got to her painting class - -and when she did I commented that she must have driven fast since the normal 40 min or so drive was apparently over after about 25 minutes… and then she came strolling in at 9:45 pm when her painting class was ‘over’ at 9:30… damn. She’s going to end up wrapped around a tree if this keeps up. Plus she told me she was so tired she was nearly ‘falling asleep’ when she was driving. Jeez. I told her if she was too sleepy to drive or was nodding off then she needed to pull over and call us. Either take a nap or get out and walk around in the fresh air. But don’t drive.</p>
<p>Tomorrow she should have the dose of her new med escalated – so far I see no change, but we’re only at a quarter dose. So I have to be patient.</p>
<p>Manga girl… as I suspected, too many cooks did spoil the ‘broth’ and she is not happy with her glow in the dark paint project. I have ordered her additional glow in the dark paint. Since there is still more ceiling paint, she can paint over what they did on the weekend and do it over herself. She was tremendously disappointed that after all the hours she spent plotting and planning with D1 that D1 did not help out at all. i could have predicted that outcome.</p>
<p>Aspie girl has the first part of her pony club rating tomorrow, so this evening she was at the barn for hours and hours ‘getting ready’. DH took her. I’m on board for hauling her up to the barn tomorrow evening for the first part of her test. Of course this means homework isn’t getting done. Plus she will have to find all the pieces of stupid horsey clothing she needs (and constantly misplaces) and I don’t have time to hunt for. </p>
<p>I’m a bit anxious about the job situation. Not much has happened on that front.<br>
At the beginning of the month I was fairly optimistic about two possibilities, but they seem to have fizzled and the job postings aren’t on the web sites anymore. Hmm. It might be a long summer.</p>
<p>Greenie, I hope D1/D2 have a safe drive home.</p>
<p>Oh Tigger am I happy to see you!!
and G
let us rejoice
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you can buy the actual poster if you want. gawk.</p>
<p>where is everyone?
smarty? drae?
isn’t new ‘reply’ button ugly or what? I hate the way mortar board tilts on first letter that won’t go well with second C in what you call college shirts font.
the again
I am sure will get used to it soon enuff.</p>
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