<p>Son is at home for fall break, which began on Friday at the close of classes. I had no idea it was coming. He called on Friday and told us he was coming home that night. Eveyone is glad to see him. I am having a hard time getting used to the late hours again - the front door alarm chiming on my bedroom alarm keypad at 4am, etc. It’s been fun. He leaves again on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Hmmmm…I seem to be the only one posting about this. I know other schools have Fall Break because son has friends who flew home for break. He said all of his roomates left (1 from CA, 1 from CT)…and the only one who stayed on campus was form NY, but wanted some quiet/alone time with a love interest.</p>
<p>Mine is on fall break- but didn’t come home and doesn’t plan to even though we are only a few hours away by car.
Her roommate flew to Boston to see his girlfriend, so she says it is pretty quiet although some friends who have recently graduated and moved back to the Seattle area are planning to go visit her.</p>
<p>Mine came home just for the weekend; they don’t get Fall Break till November, which seems a little silly at that point (right before Thanksgiving), so I guess he made his own. Was just home for one night, and mostly out with friends, but at least I got to get some wholesome food into him! (actually, that’s not fair; apparently he and his GF are cooking together several times a week and actually including vegetables.)</p>
<p>Mine is home for fall break - they get a whole week! But she’s doing the wisdom teeth extraction thing tomorrow morning so it could be a long, painful one.</p>
<p>Mine comes home October 29 (semester system with finals in January). I can’t wait. She is having the 6-week blues right on schedule, albeit not very serious. Me, I just still miss her, pill though she can be. I miss the way her cheek smells when I kiss her.</p>
<p>Mine is on break but staying put in SoCal where the weather is much nicer anyway. Sigh! She spent Friday/Saturday representing a HS friend’s family during his Parents Weekend. Her roomie went home, so she gets to enjoy some peace and solitude while she does her work until classes resume on Wednesday. There was talk of her trying to get together with her brother in LA. Otherwise, we’ll see her in December.</p>
<p>Mine just went back after a week-long fall break. It started raining the day he came home and didn’t stop until the day he left…wonder what that means?</p>
<p>Mine has Fall Break (when did this get invented?) starting Wednesday and hasn’t decided whether to come home or not. We just saw him last night as we drove up to take him to dinner (he is just 45 mins. away at his Katrina visiting school). He’s checking which of his friends, if any, will be around. The prospect of spending five days at home with Mom and Dad and no computer (his laptop is marooned at Tulane and he doesn’t want to schlep the whole desktop schmeer back and fort) apparently holds little appeal .</p>
<p>It was good to see the non-talkative little bugger. He showed us his room (including contents of mini-fridge - you don’t want to know! :eek: ), introduced us to whichever friends we ran into, talked about his classes and the food. All in all, a virtual soliloquy from my oh-so-reticent DS.</p>
<p>No fall break for S, but I just made his plane reservations for Thanksgiving. This is the longest I’ve not seen him in his whole life, and it’s really hitting home for me now (he’s been at school since mid August!).</p>
<p>Mine will be home October 28th for a week. She came home a few weekends ago is only 30 minutes away. I never expected to have grown so accustomed to seeing her empty room after missing her so much. </p>
<p>My 7-year old daughter is already planning for her return. I just hope she finds the time to play with her little sister.</p>
<p>Mine is home, sort of, when I see him. He spent from Sat. afternoon till Sunday afternoon at his friends new place. Then today, he didn’t hear his alarm when it went off at 9:00 a.m. and instead woke up at 1:45, just in time to go over to the high school to see the debate team. I may just wake him up before work tomorrow so he can get out and do some job hunting for the holiday break! He goes back tomorrow, but of course, hasn’t make arrangements with his roommate who is car pooling with us. This weekend is a reminder of why it’s SO much better for him to be away at school, rather than here aggravating us with typical behavior of the specis.</p>
<p>D’s school doesn’t have fall break but I have been seeing kids around town the last few days. And my husband had lunch with a friend and his D who is home from Pomona who had a friend in tow who was from the midwest.
My D’s school breaks for the quarter at Thanksgiving for 6 weeks so I think that is the soonest we will see her.
Choff you have the right idea about having them do some holiday job hunting. I am pushing mine to make some phone calls from school to try to line up some work. 6 weeks is a long break and she needs to earn some money.</p>
<p>My goodness…NO break for my freshman D. Thursday and Friday only at Thanksgiving and she has class at 9:00 am Monday morning. But YEAH! two and half weeks at Christmas. Spring break is one-week. I am jealous that so many of your kiddos have more time off than mine.</p>
<p>Mine has no fall break, and has only Thurs/Fri for T’giving so there’s no sense flying him across the continent for that. I was on campus for Family Weekend this past weekend so I <em>did</em> get to see him, but he won’t be home until Christmastime. And even that visit will be mostly traveling around the country visiting grandparents who can’t travel. (MA-CA-TX-FL-CA-MA, sigh…)</p>
<p>I was going to muse on what people did before airplane travel, and then I remembered that we all didn’t move so far away from each other then.</p>
<p>Enjoy your kids and their time at home. They’re turning into such amazing young adults, aren’t they?!</p>
<p>S was on fall break last week. The first 2 yrs. he came home Fri. night, left early Sat. to visit pals at schools a few hrs. from us, returned home the night before he left to go back to his own school again! Saw him about a total of 5 waking hours both years.</p>
<p>This year he and some frat brothers went to NJ to work for Habitat for Humanity for a few days. Good cause, so I can’t complain, but it’s not much different than when he did come home! Oh well, parent’s weekend is in 2 weeks - will have to get my ‘kid fix’ then!</p>
<p>D gets no fall break, but she’s closer so we see her every now and then…usually when she needs to buy something!</p>
<p>Son had fall break last week. He was at the house 45 min. He & 2 other friends stopped by on the way to a beach house in Oceanside. The school recommends this be the first time students come home, it was really nice last year to see him. The kids were back to school on Wed, then parent’s weekend started on Fri. We saw and fed the son Friday, waved hi at the barbeque and game. It is nice to see him so busy and happy.</p>
Thank you, choff, for a post which is a lot closer to my reality than the parade of Kodak Moments everyone else seems to be anticipating or having when their kid returns for Fall Break.</p>
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