<p>mom4
glad to hear that your D adjusting fine. If parents are less anxious or at least put up good show of trusting them, they’d might do just fine. Unfortunately I am neither. checking e-mails now every hour or so and getting nothing done.</p>
<p>what is it about texting? I had a friend mid 30s ignored all my calls and voice mails but returned text the moment I sent.
young kids are almost excessive.
when I was taking his place meeting one of his friend (he was somewhere else and running late) the kid would text
I am on the bus
getting off
I am at the corner
I see the museum
going up the stairs</p>
<p>I was on the stairs watching the kid come up in awe. </p>
<p>problem is, ready for this?
I don’t have a cellphone. He took ours we were sharing (I almost never used anyway)
I don’t know how else to send text, I am sure there is a way these days, via web?
I do have land line and that’s what I use if I had to call.
I know it is ridiculous but that’s how I live. It limit things in good way (and in very bad way, let’s see how long it can go on)</p>
<p>fall break? already? how long?
I wonder when I’d see him again. ^like drae said, it is too far to come back and forth. I made sure that there are places and people he can eat turkey with if it won’t work out and/or dorm would have enuff kids around for T giving.
for kids with options maybe it is their choice and nothing to think about not to come home for short breaks but with those who have no option (hello Trin, really, how are you? I am in your shoes now you must hate it thou, actually you are better off, you could have had kids on T day and now you are cough cough, at H)
I do worry a bit how that affect his pscych.
For winter, three weeks, I suppose he’d be back. That’s only two and half month away. I am sure I’d live thru.</p>
<p>can you do it with Mac? would be any difference?
like, I am trying to make “heart” symbols with mac forever and can’t figure it out.
I learned to do smiles from “nice” parent forum poster, thou. wanna see me do it?
:eek:
:p</p>
<p>Texting is this generation’s phone call. D1 uses her phone as an alarm clock, so I know that 1. She has it charged 2. She knows where it is and 3. She has to look at it at least once per day. When she was in high school, she needed an assignment from a friend and I said to call them. she was mortified and said she would text the request.</p>
<p>Bears, depending on the mobile carrier you have, you can send and receive texts from your email. You can google how to email Verizon cell phones or whatever carrier you have. </p>
<p>For AT&T, you just add @txt.att.net to the end of the phone # and put that in your To: email address field: <a href="mailto:5551234567@txt.att.net">5551234567@txt.att.net</a>. </p>
<p>For Sprint it is phone number @messaging.sprintpcs.com. </p>
<p>Just remember that you have limited space for messages. A letter won’t fit.</p>
<p>Fall Break at MICA is 10/14-18. D wanted to come home, which made me happy. Not sure how she gets to and from the airport, but we’ll figure that out. Then we have the Thanksgiving trip and the 4 week winter break. She will have her free mileage ticket before we know it.</p>
<p>She can take the light rail to BWI. See on the link below they mention the Mt. Royal station, that is the one that is right on campus. I bet the MICA bus goes there too.</p>
<p>bears…I am such an awful texter on my lousy phone that I almost only text via my computer. Any email account you can do as mom4art suggests depending onyour carrier…verizon is telnumber @ vtext . com. Just keep it short 40 characters is the max for each message. </p>
<p>Long weekend of sports and activities…now facing a week of 3 games and tomorrow “bake for the cure” game so spent the day baking and taking D to and from cupcake decorating. Very good for the girls as they all met at a team-mates house, mom is going through chemo so not a hair on her head but a great attitude and lesson to the young women to see someone facing something like this so openly and bravely…D is going to take pictures of all the cakes and all the girls wearing pink at the game to send to her ecuadorean grandma–a breast cancer survivor. It really hit the girls how many women they know who are touched by this cancer.</p>
<p>It came It came IT CAME!!
long-sh good vibe-d e-mail of comings and goings. friends, profs, parties. cough cough.
am I happy or what!!</p>
<p>Ohwwwww cupcakes!!
did I tell you that it was my passion?
I’d make animal shapes, anime shapes, anything for office party or bakesales.
my thing is, everything had to be edible and everything should be chewable along with cake and everything should taste good.
so no silver dots thing or hard candy bits. food coloring yes, but no harden gummy stuff.
mix frosting with colors or melt chocolate, butterscotch, peanutbutter chips and stick in the sandwich bag, snip the corner and you are ready to draw!!
I was way ahead of time for this cupcake craze actually, hemhemehem.
now school wide sugar ban and all that, I don’t know if I can patent my invention anymore.
“cup-o-cake” It’s square cupcakes that put together to form sheet cake which you can ice and write massage on it for classroom party, then dismantled and eaten by knife free, plate free, utensil free.
I’ve made pokemon, sponge bob, you name it.
always boxed generic yellow cake mix and canned vanilla frosting whichever brand on sale at generic supermarket.
you can contest and detest all you want, but trust me, that’s what kids like the best.
Super moist! Pudding in the mix!
all you add are water, three eggs (large) and 1/3 cup of generic vegetable oil!!
loaded with chemicals that sure to keep your tot going for hours and hours!!
…
I saved all my cupcake tins, secret tools and moved with them.
I am a very contradicting person.</p>
<p>Bears that’s great! I am deep into year two and never had a long email. Perhaps it was the cupcakes…he knows how much you put into getting him there and took the time to tell you what is going on. Good for him. Good for you!</p>
<p>AYYY!!!..I am still going through field hockey hell…it suddenly got cold…for the “game for the cure” (everyone wearing pink, pink game balls, with bake sale fundraiser for breast cancer research)…so D spent hours frosting cupcakes (she baked strawberry cupcakes) with the team, making posters…today she had to be there for freshman and jv game and I spent time with bake sale…OVER 5 hours outside in the cold. Remember the uniforms in FH are itty bitty skirts and muscle shirts…I was shaking with cold with two sweaters and jacket and blanket to keep time for varsity. the girls had blue legs. thank goodness they won. PSAT prep tomorrow, two more games wed and thurs and then next week 3 more games to end the regular season…</p>
<p>I think the cupcake/cake is great!! I think something like that would work so well for big events like this bake/game for the cure. they could have made one large cake with the pink ribbon and it would have been much funner/easier to decorate than all the darn little cupcakes. Perhaps next year …I may get back to you bears to ask for your advice…</p>
<p>ohhhhh
watch it fammom
your post sounding like typical
“parents of class of…” post, game won (did) then PSAT scored max (will), grils are on local newspaper cover (should have been), etc etc etc</p>
<p>I shall spill my cupcake secret bag of tricks for you. (now wait wagging my tail)</p>
<p>you are right…but meant to be a complaint not a boast…I was right to be down on the whole thing…we all woke up with sore throats and feeling lousy. Working from home today. D also in bed (is she avoiding a math test or really sick?) and taking lots of cold-eze or whatever that stuff is that promises instant cure.</p>
<p>Bears you are a meanie! Also check your email. </p>
<p>I was the biggest soccer mom in the known universe, right down to the minivan, even though we are a family of three. I lived for that stuff. Soccer, swim team, theater camp… Cross country…I think it was because I was kind of a latch key kid of neglectful but loving academics and I always wondered how everyone else knew how to join stuff and what do join. Also baby Switters ( and yes I am bragging) is a beautiful athlete, even if he could care less. I firmly believe in the power of sports and teamwork in spiritual wellness, especially for boys. Also a good coach can be an amazing mentor. For me I admit a lot of it is probably living vicariously through my kid, couched in terms of making sure he has all opportunities. Swimteam didn’t last long. But Fammom speaking of timing for events. I used to time for swimteam and we would partner with another parent and do averages. Well my friend (a dad) of a teammate was seriously the most mind boggling handsome man ever sighted in these parts. I would stutter around him, that’s how cute he was. But he was my bud, so I just assumed I would get to time with him. At one meet I literally got elbowed out of the way by another mom who wanted to be his timing partner.</p>
<p>Hahaha switters, that is so funny! Beware the elbow power of women who appreciate male beauty and don’t get to be close to it too often! I also was an occasional swim team timer. I was terrible at it. Kept getting distracted by the swimmers, or random bats flying by if it was getting dark, anything but that stupid stopwatch.</p>
<p>Ok meanie (bears) with your warning, the good news as we’ve gone over before is that in spite of our best efforts ( remember Judith Harris) our kids are who they are for a bunch of reasons not having to do with us. Putting all these opportunities in front of baby Switters I think mostly helped him. But it certainly didn’t stop him from being the quirky whiteknuckle making risk taker that he is. I’m guessing it might have exposed him to better things to risk and other sorts of people to admire than us (coaches, theatre directors, people who are passionate about something, anything.) For someone as nice as he is he spent a lot of time p&ssing off teachers.</p>
<p>darn I saw your name as the latest post and opened it with hi expectations something in the line of laundry room bang bang after rained out pool-date while each’s H and wife are at work…</p>
<p>I better stop being pervert or will be banned for good…</p>
<p>OK OK sports!! yes.
I once was a soccer mom, little league mom etc. just so to conform norm and of course I had faint hope that my own athletic deficiency could somehow made up with nature and nurture.
none of my side of family had those"running" ankles. My kid did, from H.
He did OK and I had fun, esp, baseball was huge where/when he was little. It was community endeavour. whole family, every Sat Sun dawn to dusk. I had to learn how to catch and somewhat did. Once I caught his ball on my forehead and I got really Japanese style animated bump grew mound in mili second.
I noticed maybe 7th grade-sh, I am doing more harm than good and let him do whatever.
His HS was big on gym ( to built healthy strong, non academic minority kids for you know what to compensate all gov. funds that afforded all them machines in the weight room)
He become somewhat better at anything when social situation arises that he had to be in pick-up game or shoot hoops or just run around.
So yeah
If I did not drag him to sign up, fit uniform, pay due, manned concession stand (and made Mets VS Yankees cupcakes) he wouldn’t have known which base to run. I totally see what you mean.
Everything we did mean something in them. I can’t talk Judith out of it since she was never a soccer/baseball mom but
yep yep
let’s all pat our backs and adore adore our wonderful children.
and bang bang when we could.</p>
<p>I admit that once D graduates I am really going to miss having an excuse to go to hs sporting events. My S hated all things sporty but I did at least get to go to art and theatre and music events for him…even now, I drag d to all the school plays “to support” her friends but frankly I just love the amateur nature of it all…the technical screw ups, the warbling voices, but most of all the intensity and innocence of those kids trying to do their best and for them it is sometimes the most important moment of their short lives so far…that intensity and innocence is there with all hs activities but reaches its peak in sports. I was the ultimate clutz and very small so I never did any traditional sports or dance but always went to my friends’ games etc. and that is where I learned how great hs sports can be for a spectator.</p>
<p>What will I do when D graduates and I can’t go to see 40 girls who forget about everything but the game for 1 hour biting their nails and leap and scream and cry with the outcome of the close games? The fh team has a little cult of guys–all very cute–that go to all the games and yell and hold up signs and root for the team. I think the boys love it that the girls don’t react at all to the yells from them but are totally intent on the game and their teamates. It is funny to see the boys doing all sorts of silly things to get the girls’ attention and their general ignorance about the game by their confusion over what is going on on the field (why is that a penalty? Why can’t they hit each other with the sticks?). And everytime a girl really whacks the ball and it just flies down field or a really hard stop they all go " oooooh!!!" in a sort of awed way like they find it really cool that a girl can do that. It feels so nice to have the tables turned and the girls look like the experts and the boys the ignorant spectators.</p>
<p>Just last week, our third highschool (even more immigrant dominated, very low income stats) won their first field hockey game in 6 seasons against TJ (USNews #1 high school in america). Apparently, there was pandemonium on the field, girls wept and were carried on the shoulders of spectators, the next day the school had a special announcement and the girls were treated as school heroes…they even had a short story in the washington post. Sports are generally not huge in our high schools–football players are not gods–but there is room to reward perserverence and team spirit.</p>
<p>yayayay fammom
more boys drama! more preppy!! more pony tail! more suburb!! more more!!</p>
<p>I thought, Treader Joe’s high!? I wanna go there!! then it must be Thomas Jefferson, yes?
how many schools are named after founding fathers, and how do you keep track of them, eh?
we got all numbers to keep it straight for elementary, middle, maybe HS too.
otherwise called its name, even in some case discontinued name if it was more known to the public. Oh, I see… we got two or three Hunter-s, few dozen science or tech something, Lehman HS and college, Baruch HS and college, LaG community college and HS… you will know if you live there, if someone says TJ.</p>
