<p>That’s time elapsed from when plane touched down to get home, make home-made pizza, invite best friend over, eat with friend and family, and leave for movie.
Well, it is a Will Smith movie.
They are best friends who haven’t seen each other since August.
I’m still just so happy to have her home - even if she isn’t!!!</p>
<p>YAY! That sounds so exciting. I have a paper to write tonight before I could go home.</p>
<p>My daughter has been home for a week. She said it’s strange that in school she could do whatever she wants, now at home she has to ask to go out. She is now sitting next to me, both of us on our own laptop (she on Facebook and me on CC), watching a chick flick on TV.</p>
<p>Heh. WashDadJr and I are sitting on the family room sofa, each with our laptop. He’s playing some computer game with his headphones on, chatting with his girlfriend on Live Messenger, and kind of watching HGTV. I’m on CC with an eye on the tube, and waiting for my first load of laundry to come out of the dryer.</p>
<p>It’s good to have him home. In fact, he and TallSon helped me prune the maple in the front yard, and they did most of the heavy work. Finally, they’re useful!</p>
<p>WashDad, can I come use your dryer? Mine has died, which will mean time off from school next week to come wait for a repair person. Plus the pool pump has died. Gee, it’s a good thing I don’t have presents to buy this month - only Christmas and birthdays…</p>
<p>Glad to see it isn’t just my family with each person having a laptop during “family time.” It is not unusual for 2-4 family members sitting together watching a movie with a computer in their lap. My daughter just arrived home a hour ago and she is watching the episodes of Project Runway she has missed since Thanksgiving and huddled under a blanket, while husband and I are on our computers.</p>
<p>Hoping for good weather next Saturday when I make the drive to get son- finals all this week around here (for the college kids, mid Jan for HS).</p>
<p>We have three human creatures in the house at the moment, and each and everyone of them is typing something on his/her personal laptop. I’m going nuts and bananas (I mean, it is time for a healthy snack). What did we do without wireless internet?</p>
<p>Ours have exiled us to the upstairs as they decork too many bottles of champagne (first holiday home they’re both 21) and belt out the Spring Awakening soundtrack with half their graduating classes, who we’ll have to insist sleep over. Why did we agree to this dinner party?!</p>
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<p>Sure! It sits idle six days a week. Can’t help with the pool pump, though, unless you think the external aquarium filter I have in the shed would work?</p>
<p>S1 arrives tomorrow. He could have come earlier but I heard through the grocery store grapevine last night that one of his best friends at school turns 21 today. Guess there has to be time for one last party before coming home.</p>
<p>I am figuring I will get 15 minutes his first night home. The 15 minutes it will take to drive him from the curb of the airport to his girlfriend.
We are going to tell him that there is some required family time later in the week.
Plus then there is the small detail of working off the debt he owes me for some unauthorized credit card use. Hard labor.</p>
<p>ColumbiaMom — DDs, I, and even H all LOVE Spring Awakening!! Saw it in NY last April.
Another household where everyone cozily does the laptop thing together. We do turn them off to watch TIVO, though – when we catch up on Heroes, Ugly Betty, the Office, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah! She’s home. Well, she’s sleeping here, most nights, and almost all mornings. And we do get to see her smiling face as she heads from her room to the car. And occasionally she’ll eat dinner with us, and then she’s very fun, as long as we don’t ask any personal questions, like, say, “So, are you dating?” or “How did classes go?” And she happily picked her sister up from school. But it’s just as we expected, and we are very happy.</p>
<p>S arrived last night. Pathetically maternal as I am, I slept better last night than I have since he left after Thanksgiving. I’m not worried about him while he’s gone, or anything like that. But things just feel more “right” when he’s in “his” bed down the hall. I’m going to have to get over this eventually.</p>
<p>mafool, my older one is a college senior, and I still feel that way about him (as well as about my college-freshman daughter).</p>
<p>I think it takes a very long time to get over this feeling.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that it goes away even if you move to a different house. My dad moved to a different house while I was in graduate school, yet I could still detect remnants of that “rightness” feeling in him when I visited him at a house where I had never actually lived.</p>
<p>My son called he is at the airport about to board. Luckily he only has an hour flight.
He made my day asking if I wanted to go out to dinner with him after I pick him up.</p>
<p>All of these posts - us waiting anxiously, counting the minutes until we see our kids, makes me think of my own parents. I have 3 siblings spread out through out the world. My parents have never demanded for our time, but they must be like us counting the minutes for us to visit them, especially during the holidays. Having kids definitely make me appreciate my parents more.</p>
<p>…and having parents going through the issues they now face helps me think about how I plan to deal with my own aging (as it relates to my kids) in the future…</p>
<p>yes, there are several things I want to do differently as aging creeps up on me.
And, I didn’t appreciate my parents near enough when they were around. How did they get 6 kids raised? It’s exhausting just to think of the logistics.</p>