New designation: hurricane parent

Mom0f3
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:49:52 +0000

My kid also chose to stay–we would have been able to get him out on our return flight last Sunday night, but he really wanted to remain with his new friends. I believed that the University would not have allowed the kids to stay if there were safety concerns. Yes, it was hot and he didn’t sleep well in the hallway on Tuesday night, but he and his floormates survived and now feel close to each other in an incredible way. I was actually a little bit worried about how the kids who evacuated would feel when they returned–but they have been embraced by those who stayed and are fitting right in, according to my son.

One good thing about being from Maryland, where having PEPCO as our supplier means that many of us have numerous power outages, is that a couple of days without power doesn’t seem so bad…we have the flaslights and battery powered radio at the ready, and have all of our cellphones and laptops charged and ready at the first hint of a storm.