<p>Well almost. He and his freshmen buddies arrived via a 4th(junior) buddy at my shop about an hour ago. I got big hugs from all the boys – they all seemed really happy to have made it to Thanksgiving, expecially the three freshmen. H and S have taken buddies to the Bridgeport-Port Jeff ferry.</p>
<p>They seemed to make very good time from Ithaca to Connecticut – I was receiving text messages on their progress – exit 78, now on 84, now at 84 exit 17, now passing the high school, be there in 30 seconds … etc!</p>
<p>Of course I have just had another text message: “What exit off 95 for the ferry?” I don’t think they are going to make the 7:30! </p>
<p>WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!
Awwwwwwwww, cnp, that’s WONDERFUL!!! Hope your time with him is FABULOUS!!! Mine will be in at 10:30…and the house is filling up with friends already… :eek:</p>
<p>My freshman will be back for the first time later tonight about 2 or 3. A group of his high school graduating class who go to the same school is coming down together with one of the dads driving.</p>
<p>We’re all staying up; the house is going to be lit up like a Christmas tree.</p>
<p>Just checked flight status for mine. Wheels on the ground at 7:53 p.m., five minutes early! Her bf is picking her up at the airport so we can stay here with the sick grandmother. Yea! She’ll be home in an hour!</p>
<p>Daughter in the air right now! Profs canceled her classes for tomorrow (so she says and that’s good enough for me) and she changed her flight AGAIN to leave tonight. Just had a cup of espresso so I could be awake to pick her up at airport at new ETA of 11:30PM. Who am I kidding? I’m so excited there’s no way I could fall asleep now. Good thing I’m taking off work tomorrow.</p>
<p>Give those kids big squeezes! Mine is going to Gramma’s house tommorrow. Next year will be our first Thanksgiving together in five years…looking forward to it!</p>
<p>Mine called at 6:00 this morning and I accidentally yanked the phone cord out of the wall. He called back to say he was jumping on an earlier flight and would be home in a couple of hours. I went to the kitchen and started making his brownies. He slept most of the day…</p>
<p>Mine almost… almost missed his flight but just got on at the very last second. Last year he overslept and missed his flight (Thanksgiving morning). This holiday seems to have bad air travel karma for us… But he is due in in 75’ so we are off to the airport shortly. The traditional homemade banana bread is in the oven</p>
<p>Leavin’ for the airport in FIVE MINUTES! I just checked online, and his flight is actually ON TIME!!! Can’t BELIEVE IT!! Hey y’all…ENJOY your kidlets! ~berurah</p>
<p>D’s flight arrived last night at 8, S1 drove in about 8:30–they immediately needed nourishment!! Great to have the family together in our home!!!</p>
<p>My daughter flew home Sunday night but son is only half way here. He left the Roanoke area at 5pm and got stuck in stop and go traffic that was totally stop-walk-around traffic for an hour on I-81 and spent the night at a friends house around Wash. DC. He got to her house around 10:30. Should have been a 3 hour drive. He’s leaving her house now and sounded apprehensive about the next leg north to Baltimore on I-95 but he’s going to stay north from there and go on 83 and avoid the Delaware congested section of I-95. There are a lot of parallel roads after he hits PA so I told him to just jump off if there’s an accident and head north -north east and he’ll make it! I made his pumpkin bread last night.</p>
<p>S arrived home in one piece last night around 11:00 after driving through torrential rain and being stuck in messy Thanksgiving/torrential wrecks traffic on the interstate. The usual 3 hour drive took 5 hours. Glad to have him sleeping in his own bed this a.m…</p>
<p>H is on the way (post surgery appliances and all) to the airport to pick up WildChild for his first visit to our new home (since we’ve moved in). I get off work at 2pm today, so I’ll get to see him then. D flies in from Houston tonight, and her boyfriend comes in tomorrow morning. This will be our first Thanksgiving all together since 2002. First time for WildChild to meet D’s boyfriend (not counting the pre-dating stingray excursion we were all on in December on the cruise where normally fearless WildChild was afraid of the stingrays (“large, poisonous animals” as he called them). I am so excited to have everyone home in our wonderful new home in Tennessee.
Everyone, hug your kids and have a great holiday.</p>
<p>I picked up my DS at the airport Sat. night. I told him about whatever family commitments we had, then told him to just enjoy himself this week. He’s been sleeping late, seeing his girlfriend, visiting teachers at his high school, eating lots of non-dining hall food.</p>
<p>He actually said he was going to get a haircut (without my prodding)!</p>
<p>Picked up my nephew this a.m., he woke up S1 at 10 a.m. when we got back to our house. Now they’re eating homemade breads and watching what else but Sports Center!! We’re going to have lots of people in and out this week–I love it!!</p>
<p>Can they just get an earlier flight? My S’s classes were cancelled for Tuesday but he came home on the previously scheduled late Wed. flight. I thought it would cost extra to change the flight and most flights would be full. Please tell me what to do next time since classes seem to be cancelled only at the last minute. Last year they weren’t cancelled at all.</p>
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