<p>D- Mom, what should I pack, what are the plans?</p>
<p>MOM- Well, don’t bother to bring Tshirts, or sweats, or anything like that cause you can wear your sisters- but be sure and bring PANTS, SKIRTS, a NICE DRESS OR TWO, as we have some nice events, and for Christmas, I can’t buy you pants- because those you need to try on, so be sure and bring BOTTOMS</p>
<p>D- K!!!</p>
<p>So, what does she bring- ten thousand tshirts, two pairs of pants, one “nice” dress…</p>
<p>And its NOT the freshman 15…</p>
<p>So, where is she now? Buying some pants for our various dressy events…</p>
<p>Why bother asking? If you can grab 17 white tshirts from your room, you can grab some black pants, or a dress or two</p>
<p>DD didn’t “have” anything to wear for Christmas dinner at friends. Now…keep in mind, we live in New England and it’s mighty chilly…and snowy. She went out today and bought a mighty pretty top…cranberry satin with a black sequined trim…sleeveless with a V neck. It will be terrific in CA when she goes back there. My guess is she’ll be freezing on Christmas. BUT she does have slacks…and a black skirt too.</p>
<p>Thumper, if she is anywhere near your size, treat her to a nice black jacket you want to inherit immediately! You then would have an excuse to go shopping with her, as if that were fun at all at this time of year!</p>
<p>I can sympathize - at various times mine have come home with wildly inapproprate assortments of clothing. Now that years of this have rolled over me, I remember that last night in the dorm… trying to see everyone and do everything before we all parted for a month. Packing was for the next morning!<br>
I got married over spring break, so my dad drove 6 hours to bring my old bedroom furniture to the new apartment and to help haul my things from sorority house to new place. He (with great trepidation) walked upstairs to my (shared with 3 other girls) room, where I waved my arm at my closet and said “Well, I’ll need all that…” Bear in mind that it was also snowing to beat the band. In retrospect it’s lucky I lived to see the wedding.
PS - where’d she find the cute top? D1 needs something for a wedding in Texas next week.</p>
<p>My daughter’s favorite word is appropriate. She always has the perfect thing to wear, and never has a spot on her. I still don’t know how she does that.</p>
<p>what is irrating is that my D has some AMAZING and appropriate clothes, I know, I helped pay for that wardrobe…and I get the rush packing thing, but if you can throw in all those tshirts, you can grab some decent pants</p>
<p>My daughter tells the story of a friend whose mother has always packed for her, for every vacation, every summer camp, even packed her up to send her to college. Then she came home for the holidays, and well, my daughter had to go shopping with her the next day. She had no idea what to pack to bring home.</p>
<p>I loved it when my kids learned to read. Then I could just give them packing lists. As times changed, I’d email them packing lists. They got bigger, they made their own packing lists. The only time one of them had wildly inappropriate clothes was when we went to visit NYU in April. She had emailed her friend in Long Island to ask about weather. The friend replied that she was in luck, it was unseasonably warm. My California daughter immediately threw 4 sundresses into her carry on and off we went. Unseasonably warm in New York is not the same as unseasonably warm in California. But that may well have been the deciding factor between NYU and UCLA.</p>
<p>Multiple piles of (probably) dirty laundry and sports equipment in the kitchen, just outside the laundry room door. And <em>this</em> week I can’t do a thing about it as I’m working 8-8 until Christmas Eve. I just hope it’s cleaned up by Christmas morning –</p>
<p>I have Christmas off, then work a day and a half, and leave for France on Thursday afternoon to see our younger son. I don’t want to come <em>home</em> from France to piles of dirty laundry and sports equipment!</p>
<p>I think all my son brought home was in his backpack… not sure there is any “good” clothing in there…kind of hope NOT…cause it would be a wrinkled mess… suspect a trip to Kohls might be on the docket today to replenish?? I am HAPPY to have him home however… I love talking with him and finding out we think alike on numerous issues… maturity is a delight, yes? Happy Holidays and enjoy them while we got them!!</p>
<p>I will have a casual conversation with DD PRIOR to christmas eve to make sure there is something for the church service. I think I saw a lovely skirt in the pile of clean clothes that she brought home - but there is a good chance that she doesn’t have a matching top or shoes to match. </p>
<p>You may have saved us a stressful xmas eve with her running around looking for an outfit! Gosh, I hope this doesn’t mean a trip to the mall…</p>
<p>For once I did much the same thing on my way home this year :o
In my defence, I’m used to mum picking me up which didn’t happen, there are problems with laundry on campus and my dad broke my suitcase moving in this year and my new one is tiny in comparison (and I was bringing things like a PS2 home for parents’ new year soiree, plus a stupid load of books for studying :(). So I have plenty of socks and underwear, but only a couple of pairs of jeans, maybe one pair of smart trousers, no smart skirts, and a couple of dresses. Hopefully we won’t be saying the same people very much so I’ll be able to get away with the same outfit more than once.</p>
<p>well, D went out and bought 4 pairs of pants today, and her sister is going to give her an early Christmas present of a dress she bought…</p>
<p>good thing I had to “force” her to get up this morning to shop- miss cranky as she is with the “normal” hours we keep!! sorry the dog barks at 9am…good doggy</p>
<p>CGM…I live on the East coast. My boss asked if my son came home for break yet. I said yes, but he’s on College Time. She said, What’s that? (she didn’t go to college, her kids lived home & commuted). I said, "It’s sort of like Pacific time. He goes to bed and gets up 3 hours later than the rest of us.</p>
<p>So, my son staggered home, six hours after his last exam and less than twenty-four hours before we leave for Europe, and he only brought ONE shoe home (except for his tennis shoes and house shoes, neither appropriate for central Europe in the winter!) Now what?!?! We are scouring the house for options. AARRGGHH!</p>
<p>We have a couple of pairs of shoes which are too small for H, doubtless too large for S, but thick socks may get him there, and then there are shoe stores to be found. (He needed new shoes anyway, just not like this!) THere is a Marty’s 2 miles away, if he can get up in time to go there, hate to get into that with him. A philosopher friend revealed that he had been known to arrive at conferences with only one shoe, so perhaps this is a sign of especially deep thinking…???</p>
<p>well shoes are something that can ruin a vacation- sore feet…not a good thing</p>
<p>tell himif he doesn’t get up and get shoes, you do NOT want to hear any complaining, but also remember, if he doesn’t have the right shoes for damp, snowy weather, damage can happen</p>
<p>Exactly. I am a miserable person if my feet are not perfectly comfortable, and I cannot imagine being cavalier about what I might be wearing. I am told, though I find it hard to believe, that some people do not notice this kind of thing so much! I know we will wind up buying something there, which is okay, but I was SO CRANKY that he drug himself home so late and then forgot his shoe. Sigh. The other problem is that with the schedule of things being closed there, and some set travel plans, the earliest he could look for shoes would be the 27th, and that would be in the middle of a day of tours in Prague. Anyone know a good shoe store in Prague???</p>
<p>On second thought, this is silliness…he can get up and go buy shoes tomorrow morning at the local discount shoe store!</p>
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