<p><raises hand=“”> I vote for that Ilovetoquilt22. I have poured over the website, the class courses, all the different things going on all the time, etc PLUS I’ve been reading how we will never hear from our son after about a week or so and I won’t even be able to live vicariously. Then again, I talk to older D about once a week at most and frankly, I have learned that knowing everything she is up to has never worked well for our relationship. So send me to college all by myself thank you.</raises></p>
<p>As an aside, my mom is a great quilter and has made all the kids (mine, nieces and nephews) a quilt when they are born and when they graduate HS for their college dorms. She even makes it extra long and extra wide. S’s is named Madras with less plaid and more funky material. He really loves it. Very manly colors. Now we just need to buy him a blanket.</p>
<p>Anyway… Too funny about the EMO caution to younger D, Missypie. My daughter (also almost 16) knows a few kids she calls “emo” but they have nothing in common except extreme drama, usually self-imposed or dwelled upon. A few may have the dyed hair black, nailpolish etc, but others “appear” perfectly normal. I always wonder if these kids KNOW their emo. I teased my daughter about a week ago when she was talking about one such classmate’s facebook (which really is a little on the fringe side) that she risked falling into that group unless she could improve her mood! Odd how she’s been a fairly positive minded camper ever since!!</p>
<p>I was talking to a co-worker about college stuff and she said when she went off to college, her roommate told her she didn’t need to buy a comforter because they had that taken care of. The roommate supplied matching pink beribboned comforters, shams, dustruffles, cutains, rugs, etc. My co-worker said it was not to her taste, but she was pretty indifferent and was glad she didn’t have to shop.</p>
<p>I’ve stayed in university dorms all over Europe – so far, not one double room. To be sure, the rooms ranged from “spartan” (<em>cough</em>) to lovely, even spacious. Still, I suggested asking for a single and D definitely wanted a roommate.</p>
<p>S has heard from both his roommates - one via Facebook and the other actually called. One is a robotics engineer, the other a football player. Son was a bit worried about the football player until he found out he also played in the band.</p>
<p>D is flying home Friday. She has a final today and papers due tomorrow. She thoroughly enjoyed her 6 weeks away at college. She’s an outgoing girl so I wasn’t surprised that she would thrive. </p>
<p>First thing she wants is homemade baked ziti. Luckily in Fall she gets a 4/2 dorm-apartment style with Kitchen. This summer she was in a regular dorm with the usual mini-fridge and microwave and a few days ago proclaimed that she is disgusted with microwavable foods and can’t wait to come home to barbecue on the grill!! And to think that Tostino’s Pizza Rolls USED to be her favorite food!</p>
<p>Funny you should mention this. The other day I was wondering aloud what - if any - homemade foods my kids will request when they come home. When I was in college and came home, I always requested Kraft boxed spaghetti. I loved the sauce. I wonder now whether my mother was hurt or amused that I didn’t request something homemade.</p>
<p>Of course, now my request when I go home is my mom’s chocolate fudge cake which is the best cake on the planet but I’m too lazy to make it myself.</p>
<p>Argh! D has been gone for 2 months and I have apparently forgotten all the foods she doesn’t like. Yesterday I offered to make deviled eggs and today cold potato leek soup, both of which (she reminded me) are D2’s favorites. :o</p>
<p>I think I could make it up to her if I made your mom’s chocolate fudge cake, missypie. Does she share the recipe?</p>
<p>Yes, I have the recipe. But if I print it here and everyone makes it you’ll regret it and be mad at me … because your family will love it and crave it and ask for it all the time, but it’s too time consuming for most busy parents to make … the thing is, the icing/filling is actual fudge, which you pour over the warm cake, so you have to time it so that the cake is warm and the fudge is still liquid…if you are distracted at the zero hour, the fudge starts to harden in the pan…but oh my gosh, I may need to make one before Son leaves.</p>
<p>Edited to add: Maybe I should post the recipe on the “What to do with an Empty Nest” thread.</p>
<p>Let us know if you ever find it! It’s not a “pretty cake” …it’s a layer cake and after the fudge is poured on it’s a bit lopsided, and when you cut the cake the fudge crackles…simply delicous, but I can’t imagine it front and center at a bakery.</p>
<p>Yum, missy, I think I have that recipe. Does the icing call for a box of powdered sugar??? One of our favorites. </p>
<p>If it’s the same recipe, it’s not that hard to make - just cook the icing while the cake’s in the oven, pour it over when the cake comes out, then lick the pot!</p>
<p>Hmm. mine’s not a layer cake. I make it in a 13x9 pan, so maybe it’s not the same recipe.</p>
<p>oh wait. I have a recipe kinda like that only simpler. in fact it’s called something like Texas Chocolate Cake. (it came from a Pittsburgh ladies group cookbook, so who knows if it has any connection to Texas!) anyway, it’s simpler in that you make it in a 9x13 pan and pour the fudge/icing over the warm cake in the pan.</p>
<p>oops…I see Tiredofsnow has the same recipe :)</p>
<p>S decided to wait until winter break for his wisdom teeth - part of me letting go. Personally, I think it might take his mind off the next few weeks and the anxiety, but this is his last chance to chill, and he’s becoming quite expert at it!</p>
<p>D was approved for her own credit card yesterday, without parents’ having to co-sign. Another brick in the wall of going away to school, we tell her…</p>
<p>cpeltz–same here–Dec. 21st. I struggled with myself but am glad I am not caught in a battle with him.
ellemenope–S was turned down for his own CC --would you share what kind your D got? S has one with me for a $500 limit and I want him to have his own too as I want it totally clear who is paying for what :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Texas Sheet Cake!!! Now it has been a tradition for our HS’s XC team to gorge on that after their last race, which most years has been either states or federations right before Thanksgiving, so most XC parents have the recipe here. I don’t know how the tradition started, but I will definitely have one waiting for D after her first college season is over!</p>
<p>OMG . Texas Sheet Cake! My mother made it in a very large pan so that the finished cake (with fresh pecans in the warm fudge icing) was very, very thin. I bet I havent had this cake in 20 years, but my mom made it on special occassions, too. Sadly I did not get the baking gene.</p>
<p>DS’s special food is bbq ribs which DH makes in the backyard.</p>