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<em>lol</em> My list would include tiramisu and Fererro Roche… <em>yum</em> :)</p>
<p>backhandgrip, your posts are an inspiration. My family has ridiculed my constant visits to this site over the last year (I am not a prolific poster, but I am on here A LOT). Do you mean that I will actually get my life and my reading back after the ducklings matriculate and my CC visits slow to a trickle?? Hard to imagine that today. :)</p>
<p>My H is on the computer himself so much for work (even when he’s at home) that I doubt he notices how much I am on. It keeps me from asking HIM all the time when he plans to join us.</p>
<p>berurah–I have similar situations here all the time! The college kids (and their friends) will still be on break while the high schooler has to do homework, go to bed, and get up early to catch the bus. It’s tough being the youngest…</p>
<p>And of course I too need to go to bed early and get up with the high schooler. It’s even tougher being the mom!</p>
<p>I think what keeps many of us coming here is anxiety.I was in a constant state of anxiety with all 4 of the kids as teenages. There were all kinds of exciting and upsetting events.I knew with my last two kids I had to stay on them ALL THE TIME about schoolwork so everything would be just so so and that merit aid would come tumbling in. Towards the end there I thought I was going to DIE. Kept thinking, “I’m TOO OLD FOR THIS”. And you know, those anxiety fits to go through when one would not make honor society or scored just below 1300 on a test or , disaster, one kid close to mine got a ticket. It’s all about the anxiety here. All about the anxiety.</p>
<p>aBerurah: That’s so funny! Yes, I know what you mean, like, scream when you realize the binds are not closed in your bedroom and there are kids on the porch or on the front lawn of the house! Or, what the heck do you do when one kid you know is…smoking. It’s like fight the temptation to say, “does your father know you are doing that?”</p>
<p>Actually, my parents were the ones to complain at first – I got the “don’t talk to strangers online! they’re all pervy 50-year-old men!” speech when I first started coming here. When it came to things like planning college visits, though, I think they started to appreciate everything I’ve learned here, and I actually printed some relevant threads for them to read. By now, I think they’re used to me answering questions about the process with “I’ll ask the parents on CC. I’m sure they’ll know.” :p</p>