<p>DS lives in same town as us, working his first real job for 2 yrs now.
He will call infrequently, maybe once every two weeks. But it is lovely to just walk into my house some afternoons from work and find him there.
We are very casual around here so no invites/notice needed for family to visit.</p>
<p>DD age 23 still lives with us…that doesn’t stop her from emailing me several times a day from the next room. I love it.</p>
<p>Both kids are out of college and working away from home. S1 calls weekly, rarely responds to my emails (which I hardly ever send anymore), but will repond to DH’s emails. S2 calls weekly, which is a vast improvement over what he did in college. He’ll usually respond to emails with as brief a response as possible (usually no more than a few words). They’ll both initiate emails if they have something specfic to say or ask.</p>
<p>S, almost 25, works full-time and is finishing college part-time, lives independently about 10 miles away. He calls or texts, or both, three to five times per week, and we see him four or five times per month. He’s in sales, so sometimes his calls are “Hey guess how much commission I’m getting this paycheck!!” D is a college junior, on the other side of the continent, we hear from her maybe once a week. Though, now that I think of it, we usually call her. On occasion, she’ll answer a text. When we do talk, sometimes it’s a nice long conversation. She’s very busy, working hard, so I don’t expect to hear from her all that often. Daily texts? Never.</p>
<p>But, tonight, we’re picking her up from the airport–spring break!!! Yay!</p>
<p>S1 is 26. He is a military officer,currently on a six month deployment to the Middle East.
We can’t call him and he rarely checks/repsonds to email. So we have to wait for him to call us.<br>
The last time we spoke to him was Feb.16. I expect a call from him in the next week or so. He tries to call every few weeks. When he’s not deployed, he calls about every two weeks or so, depending on his schedule.</p>
<p>S2 has been living with us since he graduated from college last summer. He has a job that requires a lot of travel. We haven’t seen him since Jan. 3 and don’t expect to see him until mid/late April. He calls every week to ten days or thereabouts.</p>
<p>My son will be 23 next month, and graduated from college last June. He’s an intern at a museum in Manhattan, and divides his time between my apartment in Washington Heights and my ex’s house in New Jersey. When he’s staying here he’s often out doing something with friends, but we do have dinner at least once or twice a week. When he isn’t here, he usually calls me at least once every other day, and we generally talk for between half an hour and an hour each time – sometimes about his life and his friends, sometimes about his work at the museum (particularly during the months he was doing research and writing captions and wall text for the big exhibition that opened in January) because the subject matter is an area of interest that we very much share, sometimes about things like European history (Jewish history in particular), sometimes about whatever old movie he just saw on Hulu, and sometimes about Ru Paul’s Drag Race, his favorite TV show. Whatever he wants to talk about is fine with me; I just enjoy hearing his voice and talking to him whenever I can.</p>
<p>I don’t like to text, and he almost never answers his cell phone right away, so if I really need to ask him something (like “what are your plans this weekend?”), I’ll just send him a short email and he’ll usually get back to me reasonably quickly.</p>
<p>When he was in Austria for a term during his junior year, and in Germany for the summer in 2011, he usually called once or twice a week, and we talked for a long time, and it made me feel good that I always pretty much knew what was going on with him.</p>
<p>S is a junior. When he is on campus, he will text and answer texts about sports (he and I talk about the Steelers or Penguins). He doesn’t like to talk on the phone but usually will call at least once every two weeks. During his semester abroad, he has skyped once a week from Denmark. He has plenty to tell us and we talk 30 to 60 minutes each time.</p>
<p>DD is a college freshman halfway across the country. I get a five to seven minute call maybe once a week because she wants to vent about any number of things as she walks across campus. I used to get weekly very short calls when she was doing her laundry. Maybe she’s not doing her laundry as often when I told her that no, lightening probably wouldn’t strike her if she failed to wash her sheets on a weekly basis. I probably get texts from her every few days. I don’t generally initiate contact unless I need to know something like when she will through with exams so I can make airline reservations. Oh, and she may call me every few weeks wanting to brainstorm with me about an assignment. Those calls may last ten to fifteen minutes. We’ve only Skypped twice.</p>
<p>S32, has lived/worked overseas since he graduated in 2003. Has kept in contact, usually e-mail or phone, but now we Skype weekly on Sundays so we can see the granddaughter, born last December.</p>
<p>D24, is in her first year of a Ph.D. program, living only 2.5 hrs. from home. Calls, e-mails regularly, comes home for breaks.</p>
<p>Oldest is on the opposite coast, sometimes calls driving home from work (usually in colder weather, bikes when it is warmer). Answers ‘I need tech help’ emails promptly but chat calls only every 2-3 weeks. Will respond to texts.</p>
<p>Middle lives in same county, was here today to use the driveway to change the oil in the car (oh and do a couple of loads of laundry, since my machines do not require coins!). Usually comes by every week or 2 for dinner (sometimes even cooks it!). Often responds to texts.</p>
<p>Youngest lives in the next county, works full time and is in grad school. Will meet at Grandma’s tomorrow for brunch; will see every week or 2 for dinner on a non school night.
Sometimes responds to texts.</p>
<p>Daughter, first year medschool. Multiple texts daily, phone calls 5-6 days per week. Oh, and still calls me mommy.</p>
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<p>When my youngest is irritated with me, she calls me by my first name, biting off the syllables.
When she is pleased, she calls me Mum, but when she wants something, she calls me Mom.
( she has been like this since she was 5)</p>
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No text ever, one phone call per week.
It is not fair :(</p>
<p>I know sounds silly, but often she still will hold my pinky finger while we are driving, just as she did while an infant in her car seat.</p>
<p>You had her in the front seat?</p>
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<p>Yes, backwards. There was no back seat.</p>
<p>Seems like they changed recommendations several times about where to place in infant in the car back in the days when I had them. Same with position of babies when you put them down to sleep.</p>
<p>^^my oldest was in front (facing back) also since car had no passenger side airbags. Since more airbags, put them in back.</p>
<p>Sometimes mine call because it’s convenient, but there are also the mom calls about how to do something…make a chicken pie, get stain out of shirt, clean the oven :)</p>
<p>How to clean the oven–dial the oven clean setting…
Stains give clothing character…
The frozen food section has lots of pot pies…</p>
<p>I think mine either google or they text their friends, Im not known for my domesticity.
;)</p>
<p>I dont generally bake because measuring/timer.</p>
<p>They have have given *me *some great tips on cooking though, my oldest even had a recipe blog.</p>