<p>jmmom – best of luck to your son at JHU. I’m a Tulane grad myself, and have followed some of your posts during the Katrina mess. I have a son who is a HS senior, and he was quite disappointed when Tulane cut most of their engineering program, as he was hoping to apply there. JHU is now on his short list. Please post at some point and tell us how it’s going.</p>
<p>And so this post is not completely off-topic, I’m sure I’ll be complaining about my son on a very similar thread in one year from now. I’m a planner and he’s a procrastinator – and I’m convinced he becomes even more of one just to make me crazy!</p>
<p>Mootmom - you leave the rest of us with nothing to say or do, but laugh. What a CC classic.</p>
<p>We took D to college on Tuesday. Flying almost 3,000 miles away to freshman year. What pack? She had to excavate her room first. On Monday night, she was lying in bed reading a book. No problem, you say? Ha. She decided to delve into The Count of Monte Cristo. The freaking book is measured in inches, not pages. So she ended up throwing stuff in a couple of suitcases Tuesday morning. H and I returned from California on Saturday, and to get over some of my sadness, I cleaned her room. And found all the stuff she left behind.</p>
<p>So everything is okay. But let me just say that if you see a freshman girl with two mismatched socks on the USC campus, that’s my baby.</p>
<p>What, only TWO mismatched socks? Luckily it’s still warm enough that she can wear sandals or flip-flops, right? (Or did you find THOSE in the pile in her room, too??)</p>
<p>Oh, this is so funny and so true. Mootmom, you do win the prize! </p>
<p>And second spring, the story about the the pants made me spit coke out my nose! That is something my H would do. Esp telling me that they’ll be fine. Can’t imagine how the last minute shopping went, oh well, you can always ship!</p>
<p>Momofthreeboys… as you can see from my sn, I totally understand! And, I too, have the husband and male dog (sorry, no cats, we’re allergic). S1 leaves next Friday for freshman year at GW… we’re shipping 3 boxes + TV, being picked up this Friday. Those boxes are packed, only because I stood, dictator-like, harrassing him until it was done. In his (meager) defense, he only came home this past Friday from an 8 week sleepaway camp job. But I did 90% the shopping for him, in terms of toiletries & dorm room & school supplies. All he has to do now is his summer/spring clothes (which he claims he can’t do because he’s still wearing them)… computer & electronics. He has tons of cameras & video equipment, as it is his hobby & freelance work… but it requries lots of expensive delicate equpment. He has boxes of cable & wires & chargers that need to be organized for him to take. He still has some shopping to do… shoes, etc., now he’s at Radio Shack. That’s priority!</p>
<p>My son was playing video games thru Thursday & STARTED packing that evening & all of us were packing into the early morning hours on Friday before our flight left at 8am. Oh well, son only forgot/couldn’t pack/find one small flat rate $8.10 box worth of things I just shipped him on Monday, so all’s good. In any case, there are LOTS of great stores in LA & many things there are cheaper than HI anyway. He’s mainly glad I found his mini-multi-tool that he uses to trim his nails (of all things), which I gave him for graduation. I found it in his room UNDER some of his grad gifts which were strewn on his bedroom floor.
Mootmom, you do win the prize & hope somehow your S gets where he needs to be (as they all do, one way or another).
It is amazing & wonderful how they mature–we saw a BIG difference between the Tuesday after we arrived in LA when son was just mono-syllabic or less with the docs to Thursday after he had moved into the dorm (9 days later), when he took charge of his medical care & had a detailed conversation with each of the 2 docs.
Glad my son isn’t the only one with those famous phrases, “Under control,” and “Back off.” <sigh> GRRRR!</sigh></p>
<p>DS assures me that packing will take no time at all because he has been “working out of the boxes all summer”. While this should be his problem, it has become my problem because, due to a mixup in reservations, I need to have B&B guests staying in his room the weekend after we drop him off. At this point I can’t even bear to look in the bedroom door.</p>
<p>I think my mistake was letting him have his fancy new computer before he did everything I wanted him to do. Boys will be boys, especially with toys!</p>
<p>Two years ago my younger son came home from sleepaway camp & only unpacked the duffle with clothes. he left the “gear” bag in the garage. Several months later, I brought it too his attention, and scolded him for being so delayed in unpacking. He said he wasn’t delayed, he was getting a head start on the next summer! End of story, he didn’t go back to camp that next summer… and finally the 2x/week housekeeper did it for him, probably that July!</p>
<p>This is one of the funniest threads ever! Mootmom - classic, just classic.</p>
<p>Unlike most of you, it’s my daughter who didn’t pack. She came home from summer job (10 weeks away) on late Tuesday night, planning on returning to school on Saturday afternoon. Hung out with friends all week (when not sleeping and running a few errands), including Friday night girls night sleepover at a friend’s. Came home Saturday morning and started packing - somehow she did get it all together and off she went in the afternoon.</p>
<p>Update: it’s Thursday morning. A family portrait photography session has been long-scheduled tonight at 6:30pm. Son’s girlfriend arrives at the local airport at 8:30pm. Son is expected at work full-time today (his manager is taking him out for a farewell lunch), but may be able to squeak out a half-day tomorrow. As of 1am last night, the engine reassembly was complete, it was attached to the transmission, and both had been jacked up and bolted onto the frame of the van from underneath. Various vacuum lines and hoses and wires were reconnected. There is a list of about a dozen things he still has to buy, and a similar number of chores yet to be done (including buying and installing an oil filter and a full load of oil, which used to leak out) before he can insert the key and attempt to crank it over. I refuse to speculate on what will happen if it doesn’t start.</p>
<p>He hasn’t packed anything yet, and their detailed day-by-day schedule for their trip has them scheduled to leave by midday Saturday. It’s anyone’s guess whether that’ll happen. </p>
<p>weenie, thanks for the update! Please make sure to tell us how it all works out.</p>
<p>marite, I am not a betting woman, but I’d give it about 50/50 at this point. He did stop on the way to work this morning to buy a AAA membership, though, so that helps reassure the moms.</p>
<p>LOL! Oh, this is GREAT! Now, if you don’t mind, what route is he taking? If he’s going up along Interstate 80/90, it gets really flat through the Midwest; he could actually push the bus if need be. </p>
(Or did you find THOSE in the pile in her room, too??)</p>