<p>Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Passover! Good luck to everyone who is visiting colleges this week - travel safely.</p>
<p>Me too, Chag Kasher v’Sameach! </p>
<p>My first D used to laugh when I brought Matzah along on our trip or brought them to restaurants with us.</p>
<p>thanks rvm. a happy passover to everyone. I am deep in procrastination mode,thinking that the soup is going to get made on its own…</p>
<p>Chag Sameach to all that celebrate Passover!</p>
<p>I’d like to wish everyone a happy Pesach. I’ll be home for the seders, but then my daughter and I are heading to Jamaica for a mother-daughter spring break trip with her best friends. I don’t think I’m going to take matzoh, but I will try to avoid bread. I told my daugther that the minute we return it will be Passover again.</p>
<p>Good luck to those going on college visits. Last spring break’s college road trip seems like a lifetime ago. Enjoy the time with your kids.</p>
<p>So, is everyone chametz free, or at least as chametz free as you’re going to get?</p>
<p>I’ve decided I’m going to Jamaica with momjr…can’t decide if I’ll be one of the mom’s or one of the daughter’s! :eek:</p>
<p>I try to keep Passover as much as I can but how much matzah can one seriously eat? I get very burned out by the end…</p>
<p>If you’re up for a completely sacrilegious YouTube video check out the one called
Passover - Kol Ish - Just Had Chametz.</p>
<p>Deborah T, LOL! Not really sacreligious except for the shocking scene with chametz on the seder plate :eek:</p>
<p>Wonderful people, this is my last post before I go into full-blown Pesach Panic. No, I am not chametz-free because my family won’t tolerate putting it away until the last minute. So, Sunday is the day for the transition. With chatty in-laws visiting, it should be interesting to try to do it all.
Rockvillemom, I never ever meant to imply that you and your son don’t talk. I just meant to ask if a deliberate effort to positively reinforce him each and every time he offered an opinion on anything might translate into offering his opinion on colleges. Kind of B.F. Skinner-like, but I just wondered.
I am glad that he called, though, in the situation without you there!
At this very moment, two of our high school counselors are on a chartered-bus college visit trip with any juniors who wanted to sign up to see 9 colleges in 3 days. They went to eastern PA, DE, MD, and DC, and saw a real mix of schools regarding selectivity, size, and urban/rural/suburban. About 25 juniors went on the trip, without parents. I think that this is very impressive for urban public school counselors to do this, and they will certainly need their spring break! Anyway, we had a parents’ meeting last night (this is when I offered my parent to parent brainstorming; some parents took me up on it so thank you everyone for giving me so much information!) The parents with kids on the trip said that their kids were calling them, all enthusiastic about this or that college. So, this without-parents thing worked for them, too.
I always tried to get my kids to visit a local college that they had no interest in attending, without parents, as a “practice” visit. They learned what people ask and what it is like to visit a college. I thought that this was very helpful because they established the habit of reporting on such a visit from the start.
Have a wonderful Pesach, everyone! In spite of all the work, I love the seder! This year, I am having the first one with in-laws, brother-in-law and parents, and then traveling with D2 and parents to have the second one with D1, S1 and S2. I just couldn’t stand the idea of not being with the older kids, so this is our solution.</p>
<p>I want to wish everyone a wonderful Pesach, Spring break, and College visits. We fly to the Carolinas tomorrow for our week long adventure. I am very excited to share this time with S. My DH and D are staying home. Will try to report in if we have time and there is a computer in the hotel. I am not bringing my laptop. Will I survive without CC?!!</p>
<p>Best wishes to all.</p>
<p>levirm - no worries. It reminds me of when he was a toddler - every time he was having a meltdown (which was often) I would ask him to “use his words”. Thirteen years later and still trying to coax forth those words!</p>
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<p>Choc: Please join us. Then I won’t be the only one skipping the bread!</p>
<p>Happy Pesach to all of you and Happy Jamacia to Momjr and D and uh Chocchip too :).</p>
<p>For those of you doing college visits, Pesach is a great time to get the Jewish college vibe. If you have the opportunity and its not too late try to check out a seder. My S1 and I did that because that year the admitted students weekend was the second seder night. It was nicely done and impressive to see what a strong role students had in its organization. Of course S1 doesn’t do that now that he is there but it is nice knowing that the opportunity would be there if he wanted it. Safe travels to all of you on the road.</p>
<p>Happy Pesach to everyone. My D’s and I are heading out on college visits on Tuesday. For the first time in my life, I am not planning on keeping Passover. I just want to relax and enjoy the trip with my girls and not worry about what not to eat. </p>
<p>Hope everyone who is traveling has safe travels and can’t wait to hear all the trip reports!</p>
<p>Hag sameach and an easy fast for everyone!</p>
<p>DS#1 is up at a college for the weekend…flying alone…first time…(chewing nails, are they KFP?)</p>
<p>Samtayla:</p>
<p>Good luck on your visits. Can’t wait to hear how everything went! :)</p>
<p>Momjr and Spectrum:</p>
<p>Jamaica is just not in the cards for me this year. S has his accepted students day on Thursday so we’ll be in Boston Wed & Thurs. Maybe I’ll bring a picture of a palm tree with me to hang in the hotel room! :rolleyes: Sure is tempting though!!! Please bring back the sun…permanently!!!</p>
<p>Honestly I try to keep Passover as long as I can…not happy about it, but I do the best under the circumstances. Like the egg matzah better than the plain…</p>
<p>Crester: Good luck with your S flying alone. We started having our boys fly alone around bar mitzvah age…nerve wracking! But starting with direct flights is the best and now they are old pros. Wait a minute…an easy fast? Do we fast at Passover? I don’t believe I’ve ever done that! (Fasting is done at Yom kippur) Thank you for the good wishes.</p>
<p>mdmomfromli: Good luck on your visits too. Is that favorite of your D still the favorite? Hope it works out! :)</p>
<p>@chocchipcookie: The intention is ‘fasting’ from bread and all the other nonsense us Ashkenazies go through. I meant it tongue in cheek.</p>
<p>^^^Thanks for explaining. I take everything so literally…:o
I get it now! :D</p>
<p>I just had a nice e-mail from one of S2’s friend’s mother - she wrote that her son was so impressed to see the way the Elon rep greeted S2 at the college fair yesterday! </p>
<p>DH just remarked to me that S2 is more excited to play golf in Charleston than to tour CofC - but that’s ok - to be expected.</p>
<p>chocchip - the “fasting” comment puzzled me too!</p>