<p>oops, I missed post #132. I was thinking something related to hidden alcohol. This sounds like a much ‘cleaner’ activity. :eek:</p>
<p>Momof3sons-- Do you need any rum for the party you will host in a few years?? :)</p>
<p>bethgievt-
Sorry to hear about the flight snafoos. Where are you flying to (or trying to fly to?) If you are coming south, we have lots of room and lots of food!!</p>
<p>Congratulations on surviving the night! And frankly, I’m sort of “glad” you encountered some of what we had been warning you about…Makes our helicopterish parenting a bit justified.</p>
<p>Thanks, meredithv-
I hope we worked a delicate balance – being good chaperones but not spoiling too much fun. We are starting a lost and found-- most important was a set of keys (fortunately I had each kid label theirs, so we know whose they are).
We had our first (and only) casualty-- ME! I was outside saying goodbye to some of the guests and giving some driving directions. I was barefoot and it was wet out there, so I turned to run back in when we were done. Unfortunately I ran into some stone edging around a flower bed and smashed 2 toes. Bled terribly and they hurt! I am hoping I didn’t break a toe. Walking is a bit of a challenge. But the good news is, this means s is doing more of the cleanup since I cant easily get up and down the stairs.</p>
<p>Last good news-- s got what I consider the ultimate compliment from a few kids. They said that for a party where the alcohol got confiscated in the first 20 minutes, it was really a lot of fun :)</p>
<p>No, thanks, jym626, but I do know which top shelves and closets I will have to remember to clean out. And, fortunately, there are no doors to our laundry room. ;)</p>
<p>My friend told me about a graduation party she attended for her friends son. They were non drinkers but had kept a full bar in the house for guests. Well, they had the party and served all their adult friends mixed drinks from the bar but most people didn’t drink much after the first hour. Come to find out her kids had drank all the booze with their friends throughout the year and replaced it with various colors of water!!!</p>
<p>Oh no jym, that must really hurt. It sounds like something I would do…run outside barefoot and smash a toe. Poor you. I hope you got a cold pack on the toes, and take some Advil/Motrin to reduce inflamation. Son should pamper you now.</p>
<p>Jym, you are a great mom and I am sure your son appreciates all you have done. And those kids obviously will have that much more respect for you in the future after you stood by what you said. And they all managed to have fun anyway!</p>
<p>Wasn’t the weather around here just awful?? And it’s COLD now, so I hope you are sleeping!</p>
<p>Choco-
I took a bunch of Advil,but didnt ice them down (that would have been a smarter thing to do with the ice we just dumped…) I think I’ll just go get a cup of coffee and the sunday paper and chill for a while… S is asleep. He (and DH) did do a great job of cleaning up, I must say. The place is beginning to look habitable.</p>
<p>And momof3–
No doors on the laundery room – LOL!</p>
<p>It sounds like a success! Now I think it’s time for you to take a nice long nap. :)</p>
<p>Sax–
Thats funny about the booze. Usually they just water it down. It must have taken skill to color it!</p>
<p>Churchmusic-
Yes the weather was nasty, but at lest the lights stayed on!</p>
<p>That young boy’s funeral is going on outdoors at the cemetary as we speak. From all I have heard he was an incredibly wonderful and talented kid. Justin the wrong place at the wrong time (in the back seat of a car, asleep, that was going to Fla for a concert. The driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel.) Absolutely tragic. the other passenger was also, from what I hear, very seriously injured. The driver is physically ok but was an emotional wreck. Who wouldn’t be.</p>
<p>Oh-- by the way, I got the impression some folks thought the laundry room thing was worse than it really was. It was relatively harmless (nothing “bad”) just embarassing for poor s. We’ll let than one drop.</p>
<p>I couldn’t bring myself to check in on this thread until after the fact. Congratulations for your tightrope walking skills! Sounds like a great time, and I’m really glad I wasn’t there. … or rather, they weren’t here. ;)</p>
<p>By the way, jmmom, my “acceptance speech” for the people’s choice awards is in post #137. </p>
<p>And yes, binx, we survived! How’s that dress hem coming along? There is special hem tape that you can buy at sewing stores-- you can tape up the hem for one event, and take the thpe out for the other.</p>
<p>I am sitting here with a bag of ice on my foot (thanks for the suggestion, choco) but when I went down to get it, too many breakfast items were sitting out calling my name. I’ll restart that diet… tomorrow.</p>
<p>A job well done, jym! Reading the saga of your night felt like being there right along with you! Ouch to the hurt foot. Feel better soon and hope you can rest up for the rest of the day!</p>
<p>Gee, my 6’3" 15 yo DS2 is the only one in the house who can reach the liquor cabinet (above the fridge). Whenever we need something, we have to ask him to retrieve it.</p>
<p>Good thing he hates the stuff!</p>
<p>Just now Im noticing the CC addiction. I keep saying to myself “aah, no biggie, I’ll just read the next two posts,” and 2 quickly becomes 20,gaah!</p>
<p>anyway, jym, once upon a time a 13 year-old sweat sahara boy was walking by their neighborhood’s primitive playfield. The poor little guys couldn’t afford soccer nets, padded ground…etc. so his friends and he used 25Lb+ rocks/concrete lumps to mark the goals (2 rocks ~2-3 meters apart with imaginary net); it was a lightless night and the little guy had been looking for his ball for hours. Unfortunately for him one of the goal markers looked very much like his soccer ball with all the patches and stuff. He was angered when he found what he thought was his ball hiding in an obvious place, and kicked it as hard as he could. He was laughing hysterically even when the doctor told him few of his toes were smashed…I hope you get better soon.</p>
<p>I must ask though: was your S alone in the laundry room?</p>
<p>mel-
LOL! Welcome to the CC addiction! We all have it! And OUCH!! I can identify with that poor soccer player kiddo. My toes are all different colors this morning, and still bandaged up.</p>
<p>I am TIRED. I fell asleep early (for obvious reasons) but older s called after midnight our time and then I couldn’t get back to sleep. Ugh. This is going to be a long day.</p>
<p>As for the laundry room- see post 137.</p>
<p>hey jym626 and all the others who have been part of my favorite CC thread ever! I didn’t think I would get a chance to go to prom and so pretended that jym626’s D’S prom night was mine as well. But, i worked up the courage and asked my dream date…and she said yes! so I made it to prom this Friday. </p>
<p>If you are not curious about the details, you can stop reading at this point. If not…</p>
<p>well back in 5th grade my date transfered to my school from Texas. The first time I saw her I completely fell for her and have been after her ever since. To this day I really don’t know if she likes me? but we have always enjoyed each others company and her agreeing to come to prom with me must mean she atleast doesn’t mind being seen with me in public 
she had her blond hair in light curls and a stunning pink dress and she truly was the prettiest girl at the entire prom and I don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone more beautiful in real life. I spent forever picking out the perfect tux and about 3 hours getting my hair done the day before. So to begin, my dad let me drive his jaguar and as I am pulling out of the driveway the Engine Malfunction light goes on. meanwhile my mom is getting mad at me because i won’t smile while she has her camera and keeps taking pictures of me as my dad and i are trying to figure out what the heck to do. so he gives me his AAA card and wishes me the best of luck. (i prayed that nothing went wrong…and fortunately the car was fine). now i didn’t really realize how expensive girls are! I spent $250 on dinner and it took forever but fortunately we were able to talk the whole time (very scared of awkward pauses but none because i wrote out a bunch of questions in case the conversation went dead). We only were at the prom for about 1 1/2 hours but we got to dance together the whole time and that was really nice. there were 3 slow songs and i held her close and we sang the songs to each other. the last slow one was so fitting: “All my Life…I prayed for someone like you and I hope that you feel the same way too”. We talked to a few couples there and then drove to a small afterprom party (put down the top, cranked up the heater, and turned on the tunes for a memorable ride) i finally dropped her off at around 4 and slept til noon I walked her to the door and was hoping for a kiss on the cheek but got a hug…not that I’m complaining though. She said she would love to go out to dinner again and wants to hang out this summer. I am really at a crossroads and not sure what to do. she mentioned that there is this concert coming up that she really wants to go to but its all sold out. I would like to go also and basically it would be an easy thing to take her to because she already talked about wanting to go. but the problem is that getting seats that I would feel good about offering her are now $500-$700 for a pair. I am not sure what I should do. She is not even my gf. I mean I happily paid $250 for dinner but I thought of it as a once in a lifetime sort of thing. I wouldn’t miss $500 more bucks, but im not sure if it is worth all of this if she still thinks of it as just friends. the problem is her last bf was developmental-candidate rich and I dont’ want to try and buy her affection but at the same time…doing the things we really want to do costs money. I want to say “i love you…i know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you…do you feel that way also?” (cc parents you can laugh if you want because I know most high schoolers think they know what love is…and really don’t. but i think you need to make an exception for me because of all the girls I have encountered since 5th grade, none of them make me feel anything but her). We are going to college on different sides of the country, but atleast she wont ever forget me (you all remember all your senior prom dates, right?). I have no idea what I should do. Well if you made it this far, thanks for reading the longest cc post I have ever made…i guess love makes you do crazy things :)</p>