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<p>Somehow I think that someone with a screen name of NorthMinnesota is familiar with Minnetonka moccasins.</p>
<p>Missypie–good point!</p>
<p>I was going to say the same thing! You pretty much trip over them wherever you go!</p>
<p>Missypie… your description of crying foul on the lawyer olympics is a pretty funny visual. And actually I am surprised it only extended through the next day and briefs weren’t filed (or at least hung from the nearest flagpole).</p>
<p>I have had a lot of stuff shipped to S but wont be doing the mail thing until he finally lands there in September. We didn’t, however, send announcements for his graduation and I got some flak over it during the summer. So I ammended his graduation invitation to make it more of a “change of address” card. And the Times, they are a-changin’ and then said, “was class of 2009, now class of 2013” with his email and pobox etc. effective August 30. If nothing else, I know my mom and sisters as well as a few others will be sending him something, whether it be cookies or just a vote of confidence. Sure, texting and email etc are all great, but you have to admit that nothing really beats getting a little something in the mail.</p>
<p>Of course, I am already trying to scope out flights (either on miles or cheap) and where I can use my marriott points for a room so that all I will have to do is choke down a rental car to try and hit one additional game before S’s season is over. With D15 not playing a fall sport, I honestly think there’s going to be field withdrawal around here.</p>
<p>I’m a bit envious of those of you traveling to see your child play a sport because I assume the games will be on a Saturday (correct me if I’m wrong). Son is going to be in the choir and all of their concerts are on Sunday evenings…I guess they don’t necessarily want (or need) parents to attend.</p>
<p>Yes, Son’s games will be Saturday afternoon - unless he plays JV and then, quite honestly I don’t know when those game will be played. Typically in HS they were played on Monday eves. So I will hold off until we see what happens. As a freshman, I wouldn’t expect him to get much playing time, but on the other hand, he is a very solid athlete and has played wherever a coach as needed him or wanted him to play. It makes him very “coachable” and coaches love that. I noticed in the spring that lacrosse games can be viewed online but not sure how that might work with football, although I did hear a lot of hockey games are viewed this way as well.</p>
<p>I picked up those spacebags today… we’ll see!</p>
<p>missypie, LOL about the lawyer olympics!!! </p>
<p>S wouldn’t friend me on FB, but his (now former?) gf did. I noticed some time back that her relationship status had changed. And on her Info page I noticed the other day that she’s looking for friends and dating. Yet S insists that she’s coming here for Thanksgiving and he’s flying to her house during the holiday break. (She moved out of state right after high school graduation in June.)</p>
<p>Re bringing sibs to college move-in. Oldest S won’t be able to come. Youngest S (12) will come. We expect to only stay for the move-in day (from what I can figure – although the orientation schedule hasn’t been posted yet – there are only some events for parents the day of move-in). I think it’s important for the youngest to see where his brother (and roommate) will be. He hasn’t seen the university yet. If he really doesn’t want to come, we won’t make him. S has already told him about a great ice cream shop in town, so that might be enough to get him to come!</p>
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<p>Neither my brother nor my sister have kids. When my oldest went to college, it turned out that both of my sibs would occasionally send her a huge dollop of $ (think $100-$500), with the instruction that she was to have a bit of fun and that it was to be their little secret. </p>
<p>I would never have known about it except that D, near the end of her college career, didn’t have time to deposit a check in the bank at school one time and deposited the check at her home bank. I recognized my brother’s check and she 'fessed up that my sibs pass along some mad money to her sometimes and that it’s been going on since she was a freshman.</p>
<p>Well, of course, I thanked my siblings profusely for their generosity. Not sure why they thought they had to keep it a big secret–maybe it just made the giving more fun.</p>
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<p>Hmmm…Son is going to really have to stretch that $20 he got from husband’s twin brother for graduation…(I’m only joking about it because the uncle is worth milliions…)</p>
<p>Lucky Modadunn! Saturday games for your S’s sport are wonderful. The schedules should already be up and posted for fall sports; have you checked the web page? </p>
<p>missypie, can you work out something that would let you go to some of the performances? I’m sorry - I forget how long the drive is for you?</p>
<p>Most other sports have games spread throughout the week - for D’s sport, usually Tues. or Thurs., and then Sat. - but on top of that, they’re (of course) a mix of home and away so it’s hard to make very many of them. We have thoroughly enjoyed LiveStats and online video for the ones we couldn’t get to. I confess: We’ve sometimes set up the laptop on the island in the kitchen during dinner, so that we could all watch D’s game. 
(Good thing we know how she moves, so we can find her; the picture quality is none too great.) </p>
<p>I absolutely love the child(ren) on my couch - but I have moments when I kind of wish S1 played a sport with a real schedule, just because games make such a great excuse for a visit. (As do any kind of musical or theatrical performances, but he doesn’t do those either.)</p>
<p>Oh, we probably will be going to the concerts, just getting back home after midnight.</p>
<p>My D has neatly folded the entire contents of her closet into color coded stacks of clothing to take with her. I’ve told her it’s too much: that she won’t have room to store it, and that she won’t wear it all. She says she wears it all now (how can she?). She’s also got sweaters folded in the pile she hasn’t worn for 2-3 years. I told her that if she doesn’t wear it here, she won’t wear it there.</p>
<p>I don’t want to get into a fight about it, as she leaves in two days. But she doesn’t need 6 sundresses … </p>
<p>Since my H and I are flying with her, and all 3 of us have premium status, we can each take one carry on, a backpack, and check two bags, free. She’s counting on using all that allotment. Maybe when she hits the “six duffel limit” she’ll start unpacking.</p>
<p>Any advice here?</p>
<p>My D will be a college senior this year, and she is still dealing with having too much stuff. I helped her move home from the dorm after sophomore year, and she knew I was arriving right after finals. I kept warning her to start packing before I got there so we would have less to deal with in the two days before we flew home. Guess what… You got it – when I arrived she had packed exactly NOTHING. It was not a good situation – her room looks like a hurricane just hit, even on the best of days. I then decided that she could deal with it from then on, it’s no longer my problem. That was the last time I helped her move. I guess her BF gets recruited now. :)</p>
<p>Sorry Zetesis - I can’t imagine getting on a plane with all this junk! S was in China for a year in high school but let’s just say his needs were less than hers…(Although his shoes are significantly larger.)
Re: Siblings at move-in. D INSISTED that older B come for move-in day. She offered 2 reasons: a) she wants to show off her campus and b) she’s done it for him for the past 2 years.
Actually, there was no choice for him. We’re packing up the 2 of them and dropping D off first then staying on the road and dropping off S two days later. This weekend is the only time in the past 15 years that I’m glad we have a whopping big ol’ gas-guzzling, room-for-everything SUV.</p>
<p>Well, D got the bulk of it into two duffels (that doesn’t count bedding and winter coats, etc., which go in their own duffel). So maybe it’s not as much as it looks…</p>
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<p>Way too funny!!! I’m still laughing.</p>
<p>Zetesis – Don’t know where your D is going to school, but if she knew her dorm room (& therefore closet) is as small as my D’s (at Wake Forest), she wouldn’t be packing as much! And you’re right – if she hasn’t worn it at home, she won’t wear it at school. OTOH, although this is most likely a case of “mother knows best,” your D will never admit it, and won’t listen to your advice.</p>
<p>Congrats to all our most recent launchers and those coming up tomorrow. </p>
<p>Anyone else notice a slew of posts in the last few days coinciding with the beginning of the launches? It reminds me of last March/April. If you missed a day you have pages to catch up with! They and we are moving forward. It does feel good. </p>
<p>After dinner tonight H, S, D, and I all sat around in the family room talking about this and that. I think we all recognized these dinner and post dinner conversations are about to change and each of us relished this time. Right now I can hear DS teasing his sister in her bedroom about her packing. She’s giving him a “hard” time about a chemistry quiz. It’s as if we are trying to fit everything in one more time before she leaves.</p>
<p>Well, I said my two cents, and left her to put it in the duffels …</p>
<p>Yes, best wishes to those who have launched and those who will!!!</p>
<p>Can’t help but put another plug in for Skype. Just seeing son’s face & expressions (larger than life on huge computer screen) turned down the mom-anxiety quite a few notches.</p>
<p>All done. Just left D at school and will be heading to the airport tomorrow morning. A few tears even from dad. Harder than I thought to say goodbye and walk away . . . then when we were half way back to the hotel, her dad said “oh no, we forgot to give her the money” – so back we went – and tried to convince her that it wasn’t just a ploy to see her again. We all laughed – it would be just like dad to “forget” the money. It was a great (and much better way) to leave.</p>
<p>I had friends who took their D to college last year; H told me it would be no big deal, since she was seldom home anyway – they might as well be empty nesters. Having gone through it once, I told him that he might find it a bit harder than he was expecting.</p>
<p>Well, a couple of days after drop off I got an email from him with the subject line, “Now I know,” that ended, “You warned me. Why didn’t I see it coming?”</p>
<p>Maybe it’s a good thing we don’t …</p>