<p>I have one thing to say about mine - MESSY!!!</p>
<p>(But I am glad he’s home - although it is still a little rare to see him as he’s working 50 hour weeks…)</p>
<p>Home for 3 days, count 'em, 3. Barely enough time for me to assure self that he’s well and happy. Off again until mid August. Sigh.</p>
<p>It’s great, but the decibel level in our house doubled. Man, that kid is LOUD! Last night Mrs. Kluge teased him by telling him to use his “home voice” not his “fraternity voice” in that singsong way you tell kids to use their “indoor voice.” :)</p>
<p>She’s doing stuff at the school after finals and hence won’t be home for nearly another month. :-(</p>
<p>I concur with Weenie–messy but barely home. He leaves for work after lunch (while we’re at work), doesn’t get home till we’re in bed, so we hardly see him. Plus, he had to go visit the college gf in MA already (partings are so tough :)), and also stayed in the city over the weekend to attend Mets/Yankees games. I only know he’s home by the trail of dirty dishes, cast off socks, and lights left on!</p>
<p>KID??? As in singular??? OH, NO…MINE came with an entourage! First of all, he brought home his best friend from college (and next year’s roommate). They came in on the 8th, and we still have his friend! He was supposed to leave last Sunday, but none of us was ready to part with him, so his parents were kind enough to grant us another week…three weeks in all!</p>
<p>And then…because my son is the only one of his friends to go to school out of state, whenever he’s IN town, we have about a bajillion extra people over (not counting the friends for the OTHER five kids!). So, for the past couple of weeks, my standard count for dinner has been somewhere around 15 people each night!!! </p>
<p>Even with all of that, though, we are LOVING having him home…our family just feels more…complete, if a bit crowded! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Mine is in Summer I, but, I’m with her 
Yay!!! We have been playing for the last week - it’s really cool to run around and do, see, eat and buy all the things we haven’t been able to get to for the past year. We’re either going home when this session ends, or flying out somewhere on vacation before Summer II, haven’t decided yet.</p>
<p>From garland: “dirty dishes, cast off socks, and lights left on!”</p>
<p>Oh the lights! It’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>And off to see the gf this weekend. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I’m happy to have mine home. I missed the sound of trumpet when he was gone. Yes, the house is messier, no doubt about that. But it’s livelier, too. DS loves to talk, and he shares a lot with me. He also asks me to make him sandwiches at random times, and he is so cute that I usually do. (I admit it, I’m a pushover.)</p>
<p>Son is gone for the weekend with a friend’s family, and he will be gone most of July to music programs, so I have to enjoy him while he’s around.</p>
<p>Mine is finishing up at the Sorbonne and will stay to do an independent project until the middle of July. I miss her. :(</p>
<p>Mine graduates today. Only 2 more to go, Thank God!</p>
<p>Mine is home for 3 weeks before he goes to Boston for an internship and he is still on college hours! Up til 2:30 a.m. writing code & sleeping til noon, if I let him. I wouldn’t mind except it always wakes me when I hear him in the bathroom in the wee hours. To my sleepy brain, this means someone is up sick. Or else it’s a burglar brushing his teeth LOL.</p>
<p>Susantm LOL! How can they possibly EAT so much? They’re hopelessly cute all the time, but somehow they’re cutest of all when they’re hungry, and, mine is hungry constantly! I love making her happy, yummy sandwiches and all sorts of meals, but, fed at 10:00 a.m. means hungry again by noon. </p>
<p>I am going to have to increase revenue flow into the household just to keep up with the grocery bill, which seems to have tripled. Maybe I can find something in the IRS code that will let me write off some of the grocery purchases lol.</p>
<p>We picked up ours last weekend but she had 4 wisdom teeth removed on Tuesday and has barely moved. The activity level should pick up next week but she also starts taking classes at the local U.</p>
<p>In August, I thought I would never make it without him around but somehow we did.
The other kids rearranged their relationships and got along really well.
Now he is back, the provacateur, and the affect level in the house has gone way up! His 12 year old brother worships him and can’t wait for him to get out of bed.
And he actually got a real job so it’s all working out.</p>
<p>Now it’s time to get the next one to figure out where she will be applying in the Fall; I think she’s taking it down to the wire.</p>
<p>Mine was home for 10 days and left again to move his stuff into his new college apartment. Then it was off for a month with the US Navy. His trip to the Naval base was not great (plane delays=mad dash thru airport to make connecting flight=no food for starving 19 year old). He made it though and will be back home at the end of June after his big “boat” adventures.</p>
<p>berurah~I didn’t know you still had your houseguest!!! Just sent you an email asking about how much fun it must have been, but the fun has continued, obviously!!! You are such a good mom to welcome everyone in for dinner!!.</p>
<p>S1 got home on the 5th and started work the following Monday. Hours are a little crazy right now, but he’ll be up very early on his work days now that the pools are open. His has “morning swim” for adults at 06:30, which might as well be the middle of the night for him after a year at college. He’s seen lots of friends, gone to baseball games and movies, and many friends have been over to watch sports and eat my brownies and cookies.</p>
<p>D got home from her year abroad, and is recovering from some viral “thing” that the doctor can’t quite diagnose, except to say that it wasn’t mono. She starts her internship in a couple of weeks, and will have several other jobs during the summer. Until then she is sleeping a lot (that’s why we thought it could be mono–very tired, and that’s not her style!!),catching up with friends as they arrive home and trying to figure out what she will be doing after graduation next spring!! She’s turning 21 this summer!!!</p>
<p>Our hs S is working 2 jobs and taking a summer class, plus doing an exchange to Europe–so he’s as busy as the other two, and he LOVES having them home!!!</p>
<p>edad - What did she have for anesthesia? I think mine will get all four of his out over Xmas.</p>
<p>It’s wonderful. D came home last Saturday, and still has a couple full suitcases to unpack, when, I don’t know. But, we leave on vacation today - she wanted one last trip to DisneyWorld before she truly becomes an “adult.” Then, it’s off to work, so I won’t see much of her. But it is still nice knowing she is here to talk to and do things with even if it’s just a bit of time in the morning, etc. She and I have already watched a couple Netflix, and used that time to bond again.</p>
<p>My S2 also arrived last Saturday, and it’s been wonderful. I am also enjoying the noise from instrument practice. I think D is happiest. She’s no longer having to deal with the 'rents alone. She can use “one on one” rather than zone defense.</p>
<p>We have a house full of guests at the moment (not as many as Berurah; only 4 – but mine came further! ) so S has been moving from couch to couch in search of jet-lag recovery.</p>