<p>Not that Tecumseh is an I-day tradition.</p>
<p>Z, we NEED you. You will make us laugh and straighten us up at the same time!</p>
<p>^^^^^^ ahhh, so true!!!</p>
<p>Jeez, this is embarassing. :o</p>
<p>You know you love it! </p>
<p>Please?</p>
<p>Hi Peskemom. Good idea. About time we met. see you at Herndon I hope.</p>
<p>Z-</p>
<p>Will you be there?</p>
<p>Someone send me the dates for I-Day and Parent’s Weekend. Also, please let me know if Peskemom or someone else will be throwing another shinding. With that info I can try and make some plans. I’ll still be within 6 hours of USNA, only in the other direction, now.</p>
<p>Just to be clear: I will be more than happy to come see you guys on either I-Day or PW (or both), but I DO NOT want my presence in any way to detract from the time you and your kids will have during those days. I’d be there to help and provide some moral support, but not to be an interloper. Family time is EXTREMELY important those days and it should be reserved to the real families.</p>
<p>I’ll just wait at the bar. :D</p>
<p>Oh, it won’t. My father, I think, will be there to peel me off of my future little middie when he has to go. After that, you can throw those little packets of tissue at us and berate us after we’ve mopped up. You can probably throw a little alcohol, too. Just make sure the bottles/cans are cold. :D</p>
<p>Parent’s weekend will be sacred.</p>
<p>I think I-Day is on June 27 and PPW is probably August 10-12. Plan to find things to do once your Mid walks through the doors of Alumni Hall. It’s usually hot and humid so I suggest someone stake out a table at DryDock and then hold on to it. DryDock should have closed circuit television going so you can follow the Mids as they get their haircut and are issued their gear plus it’s air-conditioned. The USNA Alumni Association has a picnic with representatives of the various Parent’s Clubs. Sometimes it’s on Hospital Point, sometimes on Worden Field and last year it was in Halsey. You’ll get to see your Mid after the Oath for between 20-40 mins (depending on the whim of the Cadre) It’s a good idea to have a cold drink and a snack with you. They may or may not have gotten lunch.</p>
<p>Sometime during the day will want to walk up to the Annapolis postoffice and mail the first care package. They can not be droped off at the postoffice in Bancroft. There will be an address by the Supe, Academic Dean, Dant and Athletic Director sometime in the afternoon. You can also watch the new plebes get off the bus and grab their bag behind Bancroft - usually a couple hours after entering alumni Hall. We were lucky and got pictures of him getting off the bus and walking briskly up the steps to Bancroft - we also waited a few hours!</p>
<p>That’s really surprised the past two years that I’ve been working at I-Day. I can’t imagine waiting and watching to see the Cadre yell at my son or daughter. We didn’t have that during 08’s I-Day but since then they’ve started putting bleachers out! Amazing</p>
<p>It certainly boggles my mind. No such thing back in my day. If you spotted your new Pleber during the day, it was because you got lucky.</p>
<p>Oh, well. That’s progress for you…</p>
<p>I’m writing all of these ideas down. I just can’t imagine what it’s going to feel like watching my son walk away from me. I teared up recently this morning and am starting, again. Maybe I’ll be lucky and be able to show up a day or so in advance and “stake out” my claim. </p>
<p>No, I don’t want to see them yell at the boy, but as he says being raised in a military family, what’s the difference. No, we didn’t scream 24/7. He states he was joking. That’s what he says. Plus, he said I was such a strict mom, it’ll be like home away from home. NO, I did not make them do hospital corners. </p>
<p>I know this sounds like such a weiner, wimpy question, but his birthday is while he’s being abused. Do I send something or will they make him do 18 pull-ups to celebrate? Help.</p>
<p>our son did ok with all the yelling-in-your-face stuff, thanks to lots of training from his sister… :eek:</p>
<p>bring a big box of tissues- use them AFTER you send your plebe off… don’t let the last image of you be one soaked in tears… just remember, you will see your plebe again on Stribling in a few short hours… long day for them and you, but the USNA will keep everyone busy! </p>
<p>As for birthdays- might want to keep this one a bit low-key… do send a care package with some goodies for him and his roomates at least… but try not to draw too much attention to your plebe… they will want to fly below the radar…</p>
<p>If the uppers find out it is his birthday, will they help him celebrate in some “non-fun” way? :O</p>
<p>it is possible- would even go so far as to say most probable…</p>
<p>especially during plebe summer…</p>
<p>not sure this is the time I would be “testing the waters”…</p>
<p>our kid just had his b’day in January- he got off easy 'cause he kept it low-key in the company- </p>
<p>but the lax group found out- a horse of another color!!!</p>
<p>“he will want to fly below the radar…”<br>
Way below the radar…not the summer to be the star of the show…let someone else earn that honor because it’s usually because they are the S*** Screen.</p>
<p>I would celebrate the B-Day at PPW!</p>
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<p>Not really. The two are mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>If a Plebe is able to shine, then they won’t catch any flak. If, however, they get the reputation of being a screen, then life will be VERY unpleasant.</p>
<p>Okay, will celebrate on PPW. Knowing how wimp-like this sounds, but I don’t want my baby to suffer any more than I know he already will. </p>
<p>I sound like such a weiner.</p>