<p>good
if you aren’t following, I made up casting for residents of 100 acre woods out of frequent launchers and there are still openings. or you can trade with someone else. I know you are never Eeyore-sh so my part is safe, heheheh
on pages 71-72 sh if you care</p>
<p>redbug
I see now there is none in FL!?!?!?!? there got to be conspiracy.
my kid’s MCAD friend goes there often, maybe you could, too. thou have to drive.
any of these do any good?
Coming Soon:
* Chicago (South Loop), IL
* Louisville, KY
* Mt. Pleasant, SC
* Pittsburgh, PA
* Spokane, WA
* State College, PA
* Staten Island, NY
last resort, you can mail order sexy lady’s 8 bucks bar. I bet it’s the same stuff.</p>
<p>If there is room in this thread, can I join? D launches in a month and I am wringing my hands it is going to work out. Guess I am After the launch +1 year.</p>
<p>wait, mom4 you have been here already, about nature-nurture thing, no?
or are you moving into 100 acre wood? wagwagwag…
I mean, if anybody, I’m the one haven’t launched yet but throwing around weights monopolizing topics from DMV to Traderjoes, gawk…
Oh
maybe you can tell me then, you are kinda far from MICA, yes?
driving, flying together or sending kid alone? when to book flight if you are going, too and flying back?
already, or right before/after Aug 2nd, or wait till possible last minuets?</p>
<p>Yes, I was an occasional visitor. Started new job, so can’t commit to moving in Yet, something tells me I am going to need some advice when D goes off. From things like getting hold of her (her phone is either misplaced or not charged or both) to getting things to her half way across the country. I am still amazed they have kitchens in the freshmen suites at MICA. I wonder how often they have to call the fire department.</p>
<p>We are flying out. I am overdue booking the flight. We’ll have to buy stuff there that we can’t carry. I don’t think D has enough clothes to fit in all our suitcases. She is a minimalist.</p>
<p>welcome mom4art!
Launched last year, It is fun to see new moms launching this year. I will be happy to share my story:–)</p>
<p>"I don’t think D has enough clothes to fit in all our suitcases. She is a minimalist., " This is good, this make her stuff easy to manage.</p>
<p>“getting hold of her (her phone is either misplaced or not charged or both)”. What I did is keep telling her how much I missed her and how happy I am to talk to her, she did call me almost every day for 10 minutes. I never get her answer my call, it seems she get to my email very fast. If you can be friend with her on facebook, that will be cool. I am not D’s friend on facebook :—(</p>
<p>Reading through so many posters on food here! D did cook dinner last week and her cooking is GOOD.
Tuesday: she made cucumber avocado salad,cooked cabbage with some soybean stuff from Trader Joe and noodle with tomato and onion.
Wednesday: she made two dishes: zucchini, beef with onion
Thursday: she make two dishes: Daikon Radish, Bok Choy
Friday, I got home really early and she flee away. Her cooking is not filling, I had chicken legs cooked as the supplement. Not sure if she is going to cook today. </p>
<p>This Weekend, she is so busy on practice drawing people without a picture of them. She want to make comic book to making fun of some celebrities. She did had progress and I can tell certain people she draw from her memory. She downloaded some books about how to draw and posture reference to practice. Too bad her tablet pen didn’t work and did order one online for her last Saturday. it is good to see her “Busy” doing something. </p>
<p>Cooper send them an email about a summer reading homework: a 500 page book to read. she ordered the book online, and complain about telling them so late and said all her friends complaining on facebook.</p>
<p>no,not a cooper thing, it is her “interest” now, I am sure will be a short time thing.
You mean comics is a hard career? I am happy to see her “practice” something. your kid’s friend is cool, he get in arch and art.</p>
<p>Welcome Mom4Art, we’re all friendly here, all are welcome. </p>
<p>My D launched to MCAD last year, so we went thru all what you are - getting stuff from Florida to Minneapolis. They have apartments instead of dorms, so everyone has a kitchen. I don’t think the smoke alarm went off once, altho I know there wer occasions where it was close. We rented a van because she had to bring household stuff too, and she is the opposite of a minimalist, and figured she had to bring it all. After moving her out, she admitted she brought too much stuff, and it took 5 full size suitcases and 4 carryons (1 really not a carryon, but I tried!) to bring her stuff home. And that’s after we filled a storage space with her and her friends stuff. She is trying to finish up a post for 1st year students and a parents what to do and what not to do, but not sure it’s done yet.</p>
<p>As far as getting stuff there, I learned to work the post office for the best deals possible. I used flat rate when I could and parcel post the rest of the time because they could not get UPS delivery, only post office. I learned how much I could put in a flat rate box to make it worth it and not to use a Priority Mail label, because then you HAD to send it PM whether it was cheaper by parcel post or not.</p>
<p>They’re made somewhere west of Baltimore so can be found relatively easily around here (look on your trip, Mom4art!) but probably not so easy to find in NYC area or the midwest. Soooooo gooooooood! Smooth and rich - and salty too.</p>
<p>I brought 7 bars with me on our trip to Iceland/Sweden and gave them out to people I liked. Everyone was very happy with it (chocolate in Scandinavia is pretty lackluster although the coffee is great). I got to be a goodwill ambassador of specialty chocolate, what fun!</p>
<p>TJ’s has some pretty good types themselves but I will always miss their green tea muffin mix.</p>
<p>G lives!! wagwagwag
Local fav!! I love that!!!
<a href=“Salazon Choc -”>Salazon Choc -;
so is he the founder/ the guy on the back of the package?</p>
<p>I don’t know. They encourage you to submit photos of yourself with your chocolate bar in some extreme location, but I never managed to do that. </p>
<p>I’m back from a melting week at the beach to a sweltering time here. D1 and D2 were left home alone and they: never took out the trash or recycling, lost my car keys (found by H - our best “finder”), forgot to water my plants (mostly dead), didn’t eat much of the fresh food in the refrigerator which got really, really, nasty, left the dogs outside for 7 hours one hot day (but luckily, not the hottest day), and had friends over who sampled the unopened bottles of Icelandic Aquavit in the freezer! In short, they were pesky little teenagers and they get no chocolate!</p>
<p>I keep a bar of dark chocolate in my purse in case of a chocolate emergency. Will definitely look up Salazon when we visit! There is so much I can’t find in TX that I try to bring home when we visit more diverse places. The last time we flew from Baltimore, I had a can of salt packed anchovies that I prayed they would not confiscate. Pulled them out of carry ons and watched the security clerks puzzle over whether to allow it or not. Fortunately for my pantry, they let me through. </p>
<p>Greenwich - What did the kids think of the Aquavit? Probably thought yuck - caraway! Or is no one claiming the opened bottle?</p>
<p>loveblue - great advice using positive reinforcement (plus a few drops of guilt) to make her call me. I will try it. Your daughter sounds like a sweetheart.</p>
<p>redbug - you are right! the postal service has some pretty good shipping deals. I could fit some well-packaged biscotti in those envelopes, or replacement meds, etc. I will make sure to remember. And we are sure to forget some things when we leave here.</p>
<p>mom4art - not really, maybe I only shared the sweat part of her. Raising up her for me like went through a dark tunnel. Things is getting better now.</p>
<p>Love greenwith’s story!
There is not much time left for them to live a very relax life. D said next summer she may stay in nyc not coming home. This maybe is the last long summer to be with her.</p>
<p>D2 (the one at Mica) claimed complete innocence about the aquavit. D1 finally confessed saying, “Oh, I thought that was D2’s, not yours” (she had also stolen D2’s lunch more than once that week so I guess she thought it was all OK). Then she blamed a certain friend. That friend came over a couple of nights ago and I spoke to her about it (more like joking about it) and she said, “oh that stuff? It was AWFUL, I only had one sip and then, yuck!” Which makes me wonder? How many kids were over if they only each had one sip???</p>
<p>Still, they’re pretty good kids. I’m grateful they both found jobs this summer, since they’re so exhausted most of the time that they can’t get into too much trouble. D1 in particular, she works at a day camp, and she lost her voice weeks ago and can’t even yell at any of us!</p>
<p>It’s always a friend! Beer cans outside the window on the roof of the house, rolling tobacco under a pillow, missing sneakers after a night in the woods. My son would never!!! :)</p>
<p>Off to Florida today. My brother is already down there and the girlfriend is nowhere in site. Thank the lord. Wish me luck anyway. The prospect of visiting my dad already has me tense and headachy.</p>
<p>Meh…Tigger’s not feeling too bouncy today.
Just got back from a joint meeting with D1, social worker, therapist, H and I to try to figure out how to move forward. D1 got an incomplete on the summer art class she took at the community college… social worker was supposed to be kind of taking her in hand and ‘teaching’ her the skills she needed to have in place in order to succeed at being independent. So that didn’t go so well. sigh. So now the therapist and social worker are thinking that D1 should go to this special ‘OASIS’ program at Pace University in NYC. Not clear if she’ll be accepted into it. She never had an IEP while she was in school, and more to the point, she’s never been officially diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. She shares some characteristics with Aspie girl, but I’ve always thought D1 was much more functional than Aspie girl. But at the meeting the social worker (who also works with Aspie girl) said that Aspie girl was much more functional than D1. I brought up the TREOS program at the CC – and both the therapist and the social worker said that that program doesn’t offer enough support – but, I pointed out, you said that Aspie girl COULD do that program but D1 can’t???<br>
This whole executive function thing/ADHD… who knows what label you want to slap on it. I have to slap myself so I don’t just label her a slacker. She ‘can’ do ‘some’ things. Anyway it’s discouraging.<br>
I see that Pace in NYC does offer a BFA in fine arts… does anybody know anything about that? I’m not sure how realistic it is for her to think that she can support herself with a degree in fine art. At the moment I’m feeling like it’s not realistic to think that she’ll ever support herself at all. I’m STILL waiting to see some finished art. She’s started so many wonderful things and then just gives up on them. It’s very discouraging. Her therapist says she has matured a lot in the last year. At this time last year (when we were trying to convince her to take a gap year) she would never have considered a program like this – and it says something that she will now consider it (basically it’s 24/7 support for kids in this program --its something that we’d envisioned for Aspie girl if we could convince her to live away from home). Plus there’s the cost – close to $50k/year not including the additional $5k or so for the OASIS program (that part is actually reasonable since I’ve seen some programs like this for $71k/year). She doesn’t have any scholarship money for PACE… with me having worked last year, I’m certain we won’t qualify for any non-merit financial aid, and at this point, maybe it’s all too late for the Fall anyway.
Anyway we agreed that we would check into it. I just don’t have that kind of money to spend and it’s hard to not judge by past experience and conclude that this won’t be just pouring many more thousands of dollars into a bottomless pit with no sign that it does any sort of good anyway. Gosh, I’m sounding very eeyore-ish now. Oh my.</p>
Yet, something tells me I am going to need some advice when D goes off. From things like getting hold of her (her phone is either misplaced or not charged or both) to getting things to her half way across the country. I am still amazed they have kitchens in the freshmen suites at MICA. I wonder how often they have to call the fire department.</p>