Parents of the HS Class of 2009 (Part 1)

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<p>Sound advice Modadunn!</p>

<p>missypie: good plan dropping the :further school = smaller wardrobe" hints…well done!</p>

<p>cpeltz: That must have been a rough day yesterday. Mine are embarrassed/apalled at the thought of anything heavier than a sweatshirt too but are remaining in much the same climate they have always lived in, not qute the same as your boy moving to the midwest from Southern California . I think we should make a pool betting on when you boy first calls and asks you to ship him a winter coat and boots.</p>

<p>shoes! ACK my girls did not get the shoe gene. A nasty ratty and often smelly pair of running shoes and a few pairs of flip flops are all they seem to require. Reminds me I have to find thaose shoes and toss them while the girls are out. Shouldn’t be hard, I’ll just follow my nose.</p>

<p>I’ll add shoes to the shopping list. Glad you all reminded me.</p>

<p>bblfraser: sigh…wish we were meeting for that Margarita. You know my girl said that Trinity would have been her number 1 IF it had been in CA. Gotta love that she wants to be closer to home but also I still mourn the road not taken…the one you are on in particular!</p>

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<p>As long as we’re confessing to our drug use, a few nights last week I drank a bit of children’s benedryl before bedtime. (I keep it around for allergies.) It helped me to drift off to sleep without “wasting” any of those valuable prescription meds.</p>

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<p>I had some serious dental work done last fall and was, of course, prescribed the prerequisite vicodin. Now… that stuff works perfectly fine for me, but no matter how much pain I am in, I never ever take all of them. My theory is, you just never know when the only thing you can possibly do to remain sane is go to narnia, if only for a few hours. :)</p>

<p>I refer to my xanax (all of .5 milligrams per pill) as my linus of prescription meds. It’s like the blankey you like to keep close, but it’s not like I am looking to wrap it around my head in public!</p>

<p>Doesn’t make me sleepy, but very much takes the edge off. My H would probably fall into a coma. He is no good with prescriptions. Heck, he barely takes aspirin. Refused to take lipator (or however that’s spelled) and managed to lose 20 pounds and not need it at all! (Cretin)</p>

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<p>Speaking of shoes- my daughter couldn’t figure out what shoes to take… Her shoe size hasn’t changed since 8 grade. So she took allthe shoes she wanted to take, and lined them up on the dining room table, which is a looonng farm style one. It was awesome!! Wish I could share the pictures. But it helped her pick and choose. After we looked in her closet and the ones she didn’t want to take but wanted to keep, could have filled another table. What happens whne you have small feet.</p>

<p>On the upside, we have been purging their rooms of stuff, toys, etc for years. Every christmas, they had to donate stuff to goodwill, etc, before Santa came. And when oldest left two years ago, we swapped rooms and got rid of so much stuff. So basically, now its clothes and harry potter boooks.</p>

<p>I am sending my H into the school post office to get the boxes we pre-shipped this week. They can hate him.</p>

<p>Last week D had a dentist appointment, a doctors appoitment (4 shots) and dmv in one day. I think the combination of shots, dental work hit her and she was down for two days, fighting something and just exhausted. But yesterday we made real progress. </p>

<p>hearing about the lost luggage, when I pack I put a little bit of everyone’s stuff in each suitcase, so if one goes missing, someone can still find a change of clothes. Same iwth college. I split the jeans, sweaters, etc amoung different bags. Imagine losing the jean suitcase!!</p>

<p>We leave next tuesday at the crack of dawn. The logisitics have been nervewracking, what to ship, what to order to be delivered, what to take on the plan, what to send in a month.</p>

<p>Ah well, counting my blessing, this is nothing compared to what some families might be dealing with.</p>

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<p>I haven’t heard of anyone on this board driving a long distance with their kid in the kid’s car, then flying home. I have a friend who did that every year…to Florida no less…he got a lot of extra scrutiny at the airport because I guess folks flying on one way tickets are suspect.</p>

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<p>Good idea ILtQ and nice perspective!</p>

<p>The first two of my girls’ friends left this morning. One for Ohio and the other just two hours south. I asked mine if there were any tears at the good-bye lunch yesterday and they said “no.” I think FB etc. keep these guys so connected they don’t feel the loss/change as much as we did when we said good-bye to our buddies.</p>

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<p>Last year I flew out to Chicago for move-in (sans kid and gear, which DH had driven out) and came home in the van with DH. Didn’t have any problems w/security.</p>

<p>S1 has done this a couple of times this summer, too – free Amtrak miles one way, cheap plane ticket the other direction. If he gets extra attention, it’s probably because of the long hair and scraggly beard!</p>

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<p>A friend was just relaying a story from a lunch he had with a guy whose son was going off to college. The guy was thrilled and (sincerely) hoped his his son would never come back. I’d certainly rather miss my son than have a son that I never wanted to see again.</p>

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<p>Count me in on the room woes. Also, the leaving-Tuesday-and-hasn’t-packed-a-thing stuff. He swears he’ll do it all this weekend, and he’s probably right. </p>

<p>I have to laugh at the weeping over Pokemon collections that you’ll unearth in cleaning. Here at my house, all the Pokemon treasures of the older two are going back into circulation with S2. I’m sorry none of you could see the expression on his face when his sister (!) pulled out the box that held assorted figurines PLUS all the cards she and S1 had amassed. Bless her, she didn’t give them all to him at once; he’d have passed out. She told me later that she and S1 had agreed to dole them out bit by bit.</p>

<p>Also, the shoes: S1 thinks he’ll be fine with ratty old Tevas and ratty old Keenes. I will be nice and remind him that he can’t fence in either of those.</p>

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<p>Enjoy hearing all the launch & pre-launch stories. Good luck to all!</p>

<p>Harriet, LOL at the Poke’mon treasure transfer! My 7 year old is sleeping on the blanket w/son’s school logo that she bought at the college during move-in. She’s also sleeping with one of his old t-shirts. I did take a photo of that. And, to make the puppy feel better, she’s thrown 2 of son’s old socks in the dog-cage.</p>

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<p>Aww…so sweet…I’m glad the siblings don’t seem to miss Son…makes it easier.</p>

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<p>Historymom, I wish we were going for margaritas, too! But, as much as I nagged and insisted that D look at schools outside Texas, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I’m glad she won’t be too far away. So I can see why CA makes sense for your family. Will it help if I tell you that our drive to San Antonio tomorrow will be in 103 degree heat? I’m not kidding – or happy. California sure sounds nice about now. Maybe my D will transfer there and you and I can go have some equivalent counterpart beverage. :-)</p>

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<p>Jolynne, too sweet about the old t-shirt (and the socks for the puppy). I have a feeling S2 is going to ask to sleep in S1’s room for a while.</p>

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<p>So do we have a date set for a massive virtual toast to Happy Transitions, the way we did for Happy Decisions, back in the spring? </p>

<p>Whose child leaves last?</p>

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<p>Well mine leaves Sept. 1st - well we drive up on the 31st but leave her on the 1st but I don’t think I’m the last. I thought I remembered someone after that.</p>

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<p>fabulous idea Harriet! The UC schools on the quarter system (all but UCB I think) start at the end of August. Don’t know if we have an UC lurkers with that late start date.</p>

<p>Very sweet about Pokemon…mine never got into it, though their cousin is eying their Breyer horse collection</p>

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I confess I’ve already been critically looking at the senior bling we were all talking about in May/June, and wondering what I can pitch…</p>

<p>I might be the last one to leave to deposit S at college? September 5 is the day (17 days from now). Will you all leave the lights on at the base camp for me? </p>

<p>There is definitely some “fouling of the nest” going on here (love that term!). S is being uncommunicative and obstinate about things like not emptying the trash from his room before the weekly trash collection (I’m insisting on it because he shares the room with his younger brother). There is no talk of any sort of packing. He is no longer performing his weekly janitorial job (cleaning dh’s office) very well. </p>

<p>Does he not realize the huge change in his life that is about to happen?!</p>

<p>He learned a new Personal Living Skill thanks to working at Kohl’s – he can fold pants! There is one way to fold jeans, and another way to fold dress pants. I don’t know if he’s learned shirts yet, but I think not (so we might need a lot of hangers). He doesn’t seem to think that learning to sew a button on is any sort of skill that he might need. </p>

<p>Last weekend he went to a party, and last night he went to a debate party. Tomorrow evening we go to the welcome barbecue by his university’s local alumni group. </p>

<p>I have pictured the Day of Leaving for so long, it seems. And now it’s almost here. I don’t think I’m going to do this right. I’m the only female in a house of five males, and they hate displays of emotion. I think they are all going to simply tune me out, and I will have to be hiding in the bushes or something, crying! (This past weekend there was an essay by a mom whose son was going to start preschool. Her dh’s assignment was to hide in the bushes to photograph the momentous occasion so it wouldn’t be disruptive. That’s why I have hiding in the bushes on my mind!) </p>

<p>Re drugs – I have been known to take Benadryl (actually the generic equivalent) to get a good night’s sleep on occasion. A small dose does it for me.</p>

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<p>It’s funny here in SoCal-everyone thinks my dd is leaving so early!! She leaves this Sunday, August 23rd. Her friends who are are going to UCLA and Stanford leave in a month-Sept 15th and 18th. I was wondering if she would mind that they so much more time to spend together, but she’s excited to start this next adventure!</p>

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<p>regardings cars/airlines … a gentleman I know has a daughter who is attending college OOS. After the fall and spring semesters, he flies to the closest airport to her college, where his daughter is waiting for him to get off the plane. From the airport, he drives her and the car home (stopping overnight, it’s about a 17 hour drive). When she returns to school, he drives her and her car down and takes a flight home.</p>

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<p>I think we are one of the last to leave…we drive D to her UC on Sept. 19 so she can move in on the 20th.</p>

<p>Room…STILL doesn’t look much different than earlier this summer but she insists “she’s working on it”, she has as least gone through her t-shirts (a start I guess…)</p>

<p>Drivers License…scheduled to take the driving test early Sept. - YEA!!</p>

<p>Packing…just got dorm info so hopefully it’ll start to pick up quicker now, though I suggested that she start by setting aside her ‘winter’ clothes (somewhat colder than home but not snow cold) so that we could bring them up for family weekend in Nov.</p>

<p>I still anticipate having to clean room once she leaves (and box up stuff that ‘she needs to go through’) but hopefully…IDK what I’m really expecting to happen between now and departure!</p>

<p>…when were you all coming to CA for Margaritas again??</p>