<p>Oh I had forgotten it was a closed group. If it takes a while, pm momofwildchild. She’s the grand puba of the page.</p>
<p>When I joined Facebook last winter, I found a group for my class at my law school. At the time there was one member. I requested to be admitted to the group and never was. Last time I checked, there were two members…I guess someone who hated everyone but one person in our class started the group!</p>
<p>^^that’s cute…thanks for the info</p>
<p>yea! FFboyscout!
Had to just e-mail me very own boy to remind him to send a thank you note to his GrandPs for the birthday check.</p>
<p>I just joined FB last night. But stopped there. Not sure I want to “go there” or not. So I have not set up any friends…yet</p>
<p>WoodyD is coming home tomorrow for a long weekend.
My H is so anxious to see her that he can’t wait for the bus on Saturday. After literally traveling half-way around the world today, he is going to drive 10 hours round trip to pick her up tomorrow.
I just got home from the supermarket. For the first time in about 6-7 weeks I spent more than $100 on groceries! How funny!
PS Did I tell you that woodyD is coming home tomorrow?? YAYY!!</p>
<p>Son called! Good news and bad news. The good news is I knew it was him as soon as I heard the phone ring so it seems he might be settling into a thursday at 2 kind of thing - which actually works well for me. Does he know he still has to call on Sunday to prove he lived thru the weekend? No. However, I figured out what my request is going to be… I love that he “thinks” to call on the way back from something or other, but the down side of this is that he is constantly running into people he knows and so the fluidity of the conversation is kind of limited. And too, it’s not really a “bye” at the end, but a “Oh… I gotta go right now there are my friends, professor, coach, etc.” So… I think the request will go something like slot out about 15 minutes in a semi quiet kind of place. </p>
<p>The bad new is he also got some of his midterms back! He was clearly disappointed in the results so far. The up side, however, (beyond his willingness to tell me) is that he didn’t seem totally deflated - only determined to do better. Thing is, I dont have to be anything but reassuring. Of all the things I worry about, thankfully, his ability to do the work and do it well isn’t one of them. I think he is now really nervous however about getting back the cell hell exam and all the critique on his writing in his first year seminar.</p>
<p>Good for the Woody family!! You know, I think coming home on a random weekend is a great idea - not too many friends home to distract like Thanksgiving/Christmas etc. Have a great time. We are actually spending more money on food around here but mostly because we eat out a lot lot more!</p>
<p>I think our calls from kids are all going to feel up and down/good and bad. But at least he called Modadunn. YAY!
Those first semester mid-terms can be bears! Glad you have confidence in his ability to heave to and get the job done</p>
<p>One of my Ds got a JOB!!! all on her own, made the contact sent the resume had the interview and landed it! Whooo Hooo she will be helping with child care for a mom who is pg with twins and has a 3 and 1 y/o :eek: </p>
<p>I am tickled pink. Plus both girls volunteered to give blood yesterday which I think is pretty durned nifty too!!</p>
<p>^^^Good Lord, it sounds like the poor woman could use the help!</p>
<p>historymom–good for your d…and she’ll have that expertise on twins once they arrive too 
I’d be very proud that your ds’ donated blood, did they do that thru their school?</p>
<p>wow Hmom
You must be bursting your buttons with pride. Deservedly so</p>
<p>When D1 nannied she told us later it was the perfect birth control lesson! Congats to twin? on the initiative, follow through and landing the job!!!</p>
<p>A job? A child who gets a job on his or her own without parental nagging? *[sighs wistfully] * How nice that must be!</p>
<p>Awesome HM. And Woody, S2 comes home in 9 days (whole week of Fall break), and I’m SO excited! That excitement is tempered, however, by the knowledge I may not get S1 home for Thanksgiving–trying to use a voucher, and don’t want to spend a fortune. argh!</p>
<p>HM- that’s great.</p>
<p>If there is some secret involved in getting the kid to find a job, do tell. Please!</p>
<p>Same here SJTH - S won’t be home till Christmas. I’m sorry the sibs won’t meet til then but H and I will visit on S’s Bday in a couple of weeks.
Have fun with S2!
And modadun - congrats on the call! You too #tm!
That first semester is always a *****! After S’s experience, I encourage every college freshman to let those AP credits stay in HS. College Calc II after APCalcAB just ain’t the same…</p>
<p>Leaving now to fetch spawn! Driving partway up tonight, rest of the way in the morning, will drive home tomorrow afternoon/evening, and have him here for all of next week, yahoo!!</p>
<p>To make this even better, his 16th birthday is Monday, so there will be cake involved! 
Oh, dang, and a present; guess I should have gotten him something, hmmm??? Well, there’s always the weekend for that!</p>
<p>Very excited! Must go…! </p>
<p>:: tosses Schoolboy cookies to all as she runs out the door ::</p>
<p>Going to visit D1 this weekend…she is excited - so nice to get e-mails and FB messages saying she can’t wait to see me (it been since the end of August). She is a Jr. Bringing her lots of goodies like butternut squash soup and apple crisp, plus cat litter and cat food for her cats who do not exist, oh, no (wink wink). And maybe some muffins…I am making myself hungry!</p>
<p>With respect to post 4382…many years ago wonderful young English soccer coach and his brother took our 11 year old boys to a nearby soccer tournament sans parents (“male bonding”) from Saturday morning-Sunday afternoon. At the Sunday afternoon pizza parlor pickup he asserted he would NEVER have children. Still my oldest son’s favorite coach of all time.</p>
<p>I might agree with you about leaving the AP credit in HS. As it is, for all intents and purposes, ABCalc was the only credit that applied to an actual class of six AP’s and you had to have a 5 to get to use it. Add to this that he has always “tested” poorly in math in the classroom, although he actually still gets it. It’s probably best to keep going and digging a little deeper. He was so sure he had rocked the thing, but as it turned out he forgot to (insert complete math jibberish about some symbol and derivitives that I don’t claim to understand) and it ended up losing him a solid 10% on his grade. Fortunately, he has been acing problem sets and so the grade will be somewhat mitigated, and frankly, if there’s one time where a blip in a grade is probably most acceptable it’s fall semester of freshman year. I say, get the sucker out of the way because after this, both the science and the general ed requirements of math will be filled.</p>