<p>OMG Missypie, how horrific!</p>
<p>I must have cross posted with Missy because I am absolutely aghast horrified. I am definitely sharing the story with H and BOTH kids. Although S went out with a different group, his one friend (ski bum) had a party over new years that ended up much larger than he had planned because the other party had so much crossover on the guest list, he canceled and sent HIS guests to S’s friends. Long story short… someone went through all the medicine cabinets in the house and stole every prescription drug they could find. xanax, adderall (younger brother has severe ADD), pain meds, on and on. I really don’t have a lot of rx’s but unless taken on a daily basis, mine are all under lock and key.</p>
<p>I think when the mistake here was to essentially move bodies. I cannot imagine the horror of that father the next morning.</p>
<p>Omg, missypie, how horrible.</p>
<p>We’re seeing Les Miz tonight. Having never seen the stage production, we won’t have anything to compare it unfavorably to so we’ll probably love it.</p>
<p>We liked Downton. Does anyone here know if the CC thread is spoiler-free? I’d like to read it, but not if it has plot details of future episodes.</p>
<p>MissyP, what a horrible and tragic story. It’s hard to imagine the pain involved for anyone involved. Yes, it certainly makes the embarrassment of a parent checking up on their teen minuscule in comparison. My H drove my S2, the highschool kid, to his GF’s house for her New Year’s Eve party. He escorted him to the door and spoke with the GF’s parents just to make sure they’d be there and willing to host S and friends. S2 was definitely embarrassed, but GF’s parents were very happy to have other parents check in. It’s difficult to know when to trust and let go, and when to continue to supervise like a suspicious hawk. We find ourselves running on gut instinct, although usually when we agree in the gut, it seems like the right decision.</p>
<p>CF, when I looked, the thread didn’t have many spoilers–but I only read the last two pages when I realized it was an older thread.</p>
<p>Was the host of this drug party a minor? If so, why were the parents not charged?</p>
<p>Like everyone else here I am saddened and horrified by that story, Missy. I will make a point of telling S about it. He thinks H & I ask too many questions.</p>
<p>NM can you get in to see your doctor about the rash/skin reaction?</p>
<p>That incident is tragic. The daughter of a friend went to visit her friend (BF?) in NY this weekend. His parents were flying their plane and the plane has never landed. So, it doesn’t look good.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we’re sort of past the age of calling parents, I would think with a 19 yo and a 22 yo. They don’t tell us about the parties they are going to, although when ShawSon is home, he informs us that he’s going to a party and if he drinks, he will sleep there. ShawD does not yet drive but is in the city and wouldn’t need a car. Hopefully she is using good judgment.</p>
<p>Terrible story,missypie.So sad.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about your friend’s daughter,shawbridge. Hoping for a miracle.</p>
<p>FallGirl requested I report back on my lunch today at Rasika in DC. It was fantastic! Very nice atmosphere, great waiter. Had the appetizer my son suggested( crunchy spinach and yogurt), a creamy paneer dish , garlic naan, and delicious iced tea with spices. Eveything was great. Off to see the Wizard(s) tonight!</p>
<p>Sevmom, living vacariously as I’m sitting here eating Subway at my desk.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading updates online. The host of the party is not a minor and had a short drug related rap sheet. Any parents who checked him out would not have allowed their kids to spend the night there. However, at least one of the families of the deceased reported their son missing, so I don’t think the kids told their parents their plans.</p>
<p>It makes me feel sick, Missy. </p>
<p>Shawbridge – are the girl and her parents both missing in the plane? Terrible, horrible either way.</p>
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<p>Me, too. I keep running over it in my mind, as if it happened at my house. If your kid had friends over, you’d get up in the morning and worst case maybe find something broken, or a bad spill, or perhaps even evidence that someone got sick on the floor. But two dead kids?</p>
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<p>oh, missypie, what a tragedy for all involved. just horrible. </p>
<p>we are beyond calling parents too, although I did my share when the girls were in HS. but most of the parties they go to when they are home are small and they always sleep over if drinking is involved. always.</p>
<p>I had to laugh at myself the other night - D2 texted to say she was with HS friends and they were going to a party on the local college campus and sleeping over. my first instinct was “you’re kidding me, right?” but then I remembered that wait, she is actually in college herself! probably nothing was going to happen here that couldn’t happen when she is umpteen miles away. except that I knew more details. knowledge is not always a good thing :o</p>
<p>Oh so sad to read about Missypie’s story as well as Shawbridge’s. Such grief and so many ‘what ifs’ … </p>
<p>Son was at New Year’s party and a parent drove a couple of the kids home; our son was one of them. We thought he was sleeping over, but plans changed. We were glad he was safe and seems to know not to drink and drive. We drill it in all the time, telling him to call and we’ll pick up with no questions asked. And I always tell him, there is probably nothing that will shock me. I don’t go into all the details, but within our family, we’ve been the designated drivers for a number of looney gatherings. </p>
<p>I’m making progress with the decorations but just when I think I’ve almost got it done, I discover another cluster of Christmas I’d overlooked. And I have no idea where I stored some of the other ‘normal’ items I put away for the holidays. I fear I’ve packed them in one of the Christmas totes and forgotten. Oh well! </p>
<p>Shawbridge’s wife sounds like a wonderful cook. I’m not fond of cooking, but love to bake! Time to log off and start dinner. I’m trying a Cuban baked chicken using a marinade my friend recommended. Pairing it with lots of vegetables as we try to get healthy (and try to ignore the stash of holiday candies and cookies still lurking around).</p>
<p>Sorry for lack of clarity. The girl is OK as are her parents. Its the boys’ parents who are missing.</p>
<p>Mycroft, are you a fan of Sherlock Holmes?</p>
<p>Oh, shaw that doesn’t sound good, but hoping that maybe they will be found ok…</p>
<p>sevmom - I know exactly which spinach appetizer you ate. That is the one I ordered when I was there and the 4 of us agreed it was great!</p>
<p>Missypie - you summation was exactly what I was thinking… I would have been ticked with a broken something or puked upon carpet! Someone else’s dead child? I can’t even fathom! And while my kids are plenty over the age of my calling other parents, I always like to know where the kids are going so, as I tell them, I know where to start looking if they should disappear. And that, no, it’s NOT always someone else. I try to do so with good humor, but they get it.</p>
<p>And I have to say… H has flown on smaller planes quite a bit, but I never feel good about it when he does and he has never really done it except in good weather. But the missing plane does not sound good. We have friends who will all travel together on a small plane, but if they aren’t all together, the parents don’t fly together (she’ll take a commercial flight) for the soul reason of not leaving even one of their children an orphan (even though their youngest is now 19). I imagine that’s a habit you don’t easily break.</p>
<p>I Googled missypie’s story.</p>
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<p>These kids were using serious drugs, evidently.</p>
<p>I would seriously hope I might notice a mobile meth lab being brought thru my front door. I mean seriously… this is the new BYOB? Bad humor, I know. But this sounds very much about the company one keeps.</p>