<p>Zetesis – I had a “pink blankey” that I took to college! It was “reblanketed” about mid-high school, but I still have it!</p>
<p>Well, this one is mostly pink, but the binding is in tatters … I used to repair it regularly, but there came a time when it defied my best efforts. I wonder if it’s come out of the duffel bag yet?</p>
<p>We had a warm move-in as well (100+ degrees in San Antonio). I’m proud of us all – no whining, limited eye-rolling, cooperative photo shoot accommodation on her part. No public sobbing or clinging on my part. At our parting breakfast this morning, I asked if she’d be comfortable with initiating the first phone call, as I could see from the orientation schedule that she’d be really busy. She looked relieved. But I sent her a text message a little while ago saying “We’re home now. And so are you. XXOO”. We got a quick reply which made me think she was glad to hear from us.</p>
<p>As I was looking thru my purse that is now full of little slips of paper with the email addresses and cell phone numbers of the many lovely parents I met the last few days, I had an odd thought. For the first time, I don’t have a list of her “people”. In elementary school, I was always provided with a list of her classmates and their home phone numbers, and often the names of the parents. In middle and high school, I at least had a list of her teammates on the cheerleading squad. Now I have a disorganized tumble of papers. Waaah. I want to know all the names of all the kids on her floor at the very least so I can, oh, I don’t know, hover in some annoying way.</p>
<p>Yes, the problem when they’re far away is that it is hard to hover, even unobtrusively …</p>
<p>We’re in Worcester now - what a long drive! S left his favorite blanket behind, which surprised me, but it is a UT blanket. I’m hoping the excitement of meeting some CC moms will ease the sting of leaving S.</p>
<p>bblfraser- if you are able, go to family day, you’ll meet some of the new friends.<br>
Also, it will make you feel so much better when you see your kid settled in the new environment.</p>
<p>Wow, Harriet, your S1 is leaving on Monday? Way too soon! So glad you like his new gf. Bad timing for starting a new relationship, especially when they’re headed in opposite directions (been trying to figure out what that means, btw). Hugs.</p>
<p>Hi History. 
Hugs for you too.</p>
<p>Tick tock, tick tock - son is at Blizzcon and in heaven no doubt, but won’t be home until tomorrow and we leave at the crack on dawn on Tuesday with NOTHING done. I’m panicking on a couple of levels - will he get his stuff together? How can my baby really be leaving?</p>
<p>I’m second guessing myself on 18 years of parenting now that I know raising the child is done…</p>
<p>I think we broke some of the launching rules, but DH and I drove up and had lunch with eggson today. (He moved in 8 days ago)
Yes, it was so good to see him and hear that things seem to be going well. Didnt want us to bring anything when we asked. Food is OK. He ran laundry already (!). Registration is complete. Books are purchased. His report: roommate studies a lot (good). Suitemate parties a lot (hmmmm). Making connections with high school friends on campus (seems like a good transition).
Complaints: vending machines dont take debit cards, long lines in dining hall, pair of classmates interested in one-upmanship during class discussion. (Whew, this all seems manageable to me and he seems be be adjusting just fine.)
I feel like a whole new person. And feeling much better about unexpected work trip that will send me several states away for a week beginning tomorrow.
Best to all of you.</p>
<p>Karen, we’ve already made our reservations for Parents’ Weekend – actually did it months ago, knowing I’d be impatient. Here’s a funny thing, though. She mentioned a couple of days ago that a friend of her (with a car) who is in school in the same town is planning to come home over Labor Day and can give her a ride. Of course I said that would be great and all, but I was also quick to add, as long as it’s not interfering with anything you have going on on campus. You know, Labor Day feels too soon for her to be coming home (especially since I think it’s mostly just to see the boyfriend). I feel as if she should be at school setting down her roots no matter how much I miss her. Am I weird to think this, I wonder. We’ll see how the next few weeks sort themselves out I guess.</p>
<p>I want the scoop on the CC parent get-together ASAP. How fun and wish I was joining in! So I guess you guys will sit around and share pictures etc…<pout></pout></p>
<p>I am going to guess you are right about coming home to see the BF and I will also throw in my two cents and hope she stayed at school a little longer to get settled, meet some new faces. It will be the first long weekend on campus and just a great time to spend some down time following such a busy orientation. When I went to boarding school, we weren’t allowed to come home for the first two months. I remember calling my mom and begging to come home and can I just say, to this day I couldn’t tell you why that was but I could tell you it was absolutely the best time of my life.</p>
<p>we will deal with S also about coming home to see HS GF–we are planning (HA) to stay firm about 1 month. Her father said he will not drive her there (1 hour) and she does not yet have her license.
S leaves this Th. and has done just about nothing. I have as it just makes me calmer than waiting for him. BUT! I had a super idea today. I am going to tell him that on Wednesday he can leave to be with his friends as soon as the car is packed. Whatever time that is -----he is free. and not one second sooner. I think I am a genius and I did buy my favorite Vodka today in the waiting…</p>
<p>launch my D monday leaving tomorrow, my H is acting strangely. Gets passive /aggressive and bossy (usually easy going) but he is more stressed than he is letting on. should be intersting. he hates it when he cant protect his girls again wont admit it. I am strangely calm-WONT LAST!!!</p>
<p>tomorrow is move in day and still no packing. oh well, too late to worry now. Just have to make sure S has a lot of garbage bags to pack his clothes in. just another adventure I guess</p>
<p>oh! I forgot about the Labor Day possibility. Now I understand why "the Freshman Olympics’ was scheduled on that weekend when S went off to college. I reckon it kept a lot of kids at school, instead of running back home. </p>
<p>S, who doesn’t care about sports, said it was a lot of fun. He took great delight in the fact that his Nerd dorm beat the Jock dorm at something (can’t remember what it was, but he was thrilled).</p>
<p>I think S is going to have a nicely mixed suite. Looks like there’s some guys in there who will be theater guys and so… hopefully it will be a little like HS in that if you know your roommate is in the play, you make a point to go. If he’s starting on the team, you go and watch. It’s a small school.</p>
<p>We’re taking him shopping tomorrow (today). We were going to go today (yesterday) but… umm… I needed to get my nails done (all 20 of 'em). We all got priorities. We had a party tonight with the new captains of lacrosse and parents. It was fun and great food, but it’s revisiting me and so now I can’t sleep. They’ve asked son and his cohorts to head up a alumni game - one of those things always talked about and never done. Maybe over Christmas if we can find dome time for an hour or two. Can I just say that in listening to their meeting, while I will miss watching them all play, I will not miss the work of it all!</p>
<p>Good luck, modadunn. A suggestion: bring a little notebook. I met a parent who had one and she had this nice, neat little collection of email/phone numbers/names of all that parents she was meeting, especially those in her D’s dorm. I, on the other hand, have a messy assortment of torn off pages of something else printed on the other side. At least for the second day I swiped the notepad at the hotel. But kudos to the organized mom with the little notebook.</p>
<p>i was right woke up with that familiar pit in my stomach-things are proceeding normally!</p>
<p>We are back from move-in. Lots of fun. We love the roommate. He played tennis at a UVA tennis camp last summer and is a runner (H plays serious tennis and runs), was reading a book on Lincoln (which I found interesting), and apparently has similar video game interests as S2. S2 had mentioned he had long hair on his facebook picture, but he must have gotten a haircut as it isn’t long now. Very good looking, friendly, athletic kid.</p>
<p>Although the roommate is a political science major, he wanted to be in the engineering dorm because he has two friends from his high school who are majoring in engineering and wanted to live close to them (plus figured it would be quieter for studying). S also has a lot of friends already at WVU, both from his current high school class and from previous classes that he knows through his brother or football. As each were party hopping on Saturday night, they were texting each other and comparing notes. S met some cute girls from New Jersey but says they can’t have any guests in the dorm until after Tuesday, which is an interesting rule. WVU uses a doorman system, with an RA checking people in and out.</p>
<p>S2 forgot to pack a few things (like hangers) but nothing a short trip to Walmart couldn’t cure. He says the weight room at WVU is outstanding and there are pick-up basketball games available 24-7. He is in heaven.</p>
<p>Husband called Son last night at 9:30 - you know that if you catch your kid alone in the dorm at 9:30 on a Saturday night, he’s not going to be in a great place socially. He says he’s already the odd man out - a couple of days ago, a group left campus to go to a movie and he had no interest in the particular movie, so he didn’t go - so now that group is a “group” that does stuff together and excludes him…had to talk him down from that, that classes start Monday and he’ll meet more new people, etc. Had to hear your kid sound discouraged, esp when social isolation is a fairly constant part of his life.</p>
<p>Bblfraser, our friends who dropped their D off at Trinity raced home to go to a wedding…hope they did okay…I could just see myself sobbing uncontrollably at the wedding when it wouldn’t be about the wedding at all.</p>