<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery, historymom!</p>
<p>I am missing D1 tonight. I had to go through some stuff in her closet, and it made me nostalgic about having her at home. With winter closing in on MN (we had snow twice already!), sunny CA feels so very far away.</p>
<p>She’s having a blast, though. In class and out. I’ve never heard her sound so happy.</p>
<p>Modadunn, I set up and organized the trip (and it was my idea). I had another trip planned for June – a ten day bike trip in Provence with the kids as an anniversary trip but my wife got this great opportunity to have a show at a high class gallery in NY and that interfered with the trip, so this is a short one, without kids, just in Paris. We had originally planned a bike trip in Southern France for our honeymoon, but for visa-related reasons, had to cancel and did our trip starting in San Francisco, riding across the Golden Gate Bridge, and cycling through the Napa, Sonoma, and Anderson Valleys to Mendocino and down the cost on Highway 1. So, I figured we’d try to do our original plans, but that trip fell through as well. So, a long weekend in Paris will have to do.</p>
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<p>Lunitari, if it’s any consolation, it’s not sunny here today; had two inches of rain last night.</p>
<p>(Of course, it’s supposed to clear off and be in the 80s this weekend…)</p>
<p>“So, a long weekend in Paris will have to do.”
The sacrifices we make for love…
Have fun!</p>
<p>Happy Anniversary Shawbridge! How wonderful! Wishing you many more happy years together! We celebrated our 30th in June. Our trip to California wine country was to be this fall…fell through because of my silly knee injury. We are heading to Miami in January for H’s work and then a week on Lake Superior in Feb for some winter fun. Hopefully we can get to California next fall!</p>
<p>Lunitari…more rain and snow mix today…ugh! They are blowing out our irrigation system as I type. But should hit 60 degrees this weekend! :)</p>
<p>:: wonders whether there are any single shawbridge brothers one might shove my way ::</p>
<p>shawbridge, happy anniversary, and have fun in Paris!</p>
<p>historymom, you canNOT be sick! That is simply not allowed!!! (Hope you feel better soon!)</p>
<p>:: makes historymom tea ::</p>
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<p>My spawn is demonstrating maturity in some areas, and in others… not so much. His retainers “got thrown out.” Someone was helping him clean his room and cleared his desk for him. Spawn’s retainers – $800 worth of retainers – were wrapped up in tissues on his desk. Out they went. (If I’ve already mentioned this, please forgive me for doing so again; I’m a little torqued about this, since both of these were replacements for his original retainers, one of which he stepped on within a week of getting them, and the second… well, I don’t remember what happened to it, but something did, necessitating replacement.)</p>
<p>His dad picked him up before I got home last night so our spawn can spend some time at his house; I got home to find the living room floor absolutely piled with dirty tissues!! Spawn is sick, but by golly, if he can go to the kitchen to get food, he can go to the kitchen to pitch all his germy tissues, and not leave them for ME to pick up!</p>
<p>And to add to that, when trying to figure out how/when he will get replacement retainers (if they were for cosmetic reasons, I’d let it go and let him take the hit as an adult if he wants perfect teeth, but they are needed to correct a bite issue and if his teeth shift, some of them will rub and wear away the enamel) and on the phone with him, he hung up on me, and then never put the handset back on the phone! I have no idea where the handset is. He was supposed to email me a copy of his class schedule so I can make an appointment with an orthodontist up near school; he didn’t.</p>
<p>So I’ll send him the phone number of the ortho and tell him that since he didn’t send me his schedule, I’m taking that as a signal that he’d prefer to make his own appointment, that, as a college student, he’s certainly old enough to do this himself, and to let me know when his appointment has been made so I can call the ortho to provide a credit card number. </p>
<p>On the “showing some maturity” side, he doesn’t like the academic advisor assigned to him and took steps to have a new one assigned to him without complaining to me or asking for advice. I didn’t know he’d had any difficulties with his advisor until this week, after he’s taken care of things.</p>
<p>(When did “advisor” become “adviser”? Am I the last holdout for this change, or did I simply learn the word incorrectly oh, so many decades ago?)</p>
<p>History - hope you’re feeling better. More tea [_]} for you. Can’t have you feeling under the weather when you’re visiting your girls.</p>
<p>Owl - sorry about your spawn losing his retainers. Yikes, that’s a lot of money for replacements! Glad he’s been able to work out some issues on his own.</p>
<p>Happy anniversaries to those celebrating.</p>
<p>My S randomly called to ask for me to send down his retainer. (he hasn’t worn it for at least a year)… must be a girl involved! :D</p>
<p>That was one of the things on son’s first request list. I keep forgetting to ask him if he’s worn it. I did notice however that there are triple hearts in an otherwise wordless post on his facebook. <3 <3 <3 Hmmm… </p>
<p>Daughter’s conferences were yesterday and now there is no school until Monday. Should have done a better job planning something.</p>
<p>Completely silly post, but does anyone else think the tea mug in LIMOMOF2’s post look like a sideways baby bottle?</p>
<p>Sorry, it just struck me as funny.</p>
<p>Shawbridge: Clients in Paris! What a brilliant plan. Why didn’t I think of that? On that note, does anyone know any businesses in Paris who’d like to retain an American web development and marketing team … : )</p>
<p>Queen’sMom now that you mention it, yes it does. :)</p>
<p>LIMom and owl thanks for the tea. Owl I am trying to kill the bug with mimosas over on the “My 2.9 S was accepted to college today” thread and BTW how cool is that! </p>
<p>Not really feeling better yet so may stay home tomorrow too, I’ll give myself til 1:30 PST to decide. The thing is DS plays fb tomorrow night and if I feel well enough I will want to go to the game. My adage with my kids has always been “too sick for school too sick for anything else that day” plus I will feel funny going to his game after not going to work (I teach at his HS) it’s an away game but still a bit of dilemma and I don’t know what I will do.</p>
<p>Shawbridge we scrapped our original honeymoon plans (in Whistler BC) too. We were married about 6 weeks before the end of the school year so were planning to go to BC after school let out. But before we could take the trip we found out I was pregnant and I was so sick there was no way I felt like travelling. So the only honeymoon we got was 2 nights in Mendocino immediately following our wedding.</p>
<p>My husband decided we should go somewhere romantic for our 20th, so we decided to go to Savannah. Having been there once with my Girl Scout troop, I was eager to do “adult” Savannah. Unfortunately, I became violently motion sick on the flight there, which greatly dampened the romance. Can’t wait for the 25th anniversary next year!</p>
<p>I don’t know if S is homesick or what, but he sent an email to my husband and I telling us he loved us. Nothing else in the message. I kind of hate that I immediately wondered what was wrong.</p>
<p>Historymom - get well soon!</p>
<p>Have ya’ll stopped to ponder what a creek we’d be up if the h1n1 strain of the flu was not relatively mild? H sings in a small ensemble of 16 singers; currently 10 of them have the flu.</p>
<p>Hey firefly – been there, done that! 
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<p>Good ole Juliette Gordon Low.</p>
<p>Happy approaching Thinking Day all you Scout moms.</p>
<p>owlice:<br>
Sure makes you wish there was a monthly insurance plan you could join that would cover retainers (similar to cell phone insurance in AT&T.)</p>
<p>DizziMom:
If your S hasn’t worn his retainer in over a year, it might not fit anymore. Teeth, especially orthodontically treated teeth, tend to move around a lot. Hence the retainer.</p>
<p>aww FFScout.</p>
<p>I know I would immediately think the same thing. But maybe he just has the space to realize how important you both are in his life.</p>
<p>Probably you gave him that space. I am <em>trying</em> to give S that space. But he worries me so, sometimes.</p>
<p>He e-mailed today to say he does not have time to answer my e-mails - he is too busy. OK I can buy that, it is the last day and he does have finals, but I had to ask him to answer at least one of them so I knew he actually read them - that was the answer I got. Hope he is using his busy time to advantage. He has a 5 am shuttle tomorrow to the airport and I was trying to be sure he had all the travel details. </p>
<p>FFScout - S did ask to come home over this break, and I immediately wondered if everything was OK. But further conversations simply did not support my suspicions. He seems to really like it there, but also misses home</p>
<p>historymom, Thinking Day is in February, we are approaching JG Low’s birthday, Oct 31! :D</p>
<p>(back I go to the 10 thread, but maybe if I say here my anniv is tomorrow my friends over there will notice)</p>
<p>Thanks for the correction jackief, I was just about to do that myself. It’s tough to let it go since I’ve been involved with Girl Scouts for close to 50 years! My current troop is going to England this February so I’m putting the finishing touches on one of our big fundraisers being held this Sunday.</p>