<h1>theorymom, after that kind of travel experience, he’ll probably just be sooooooo happy to get home and see Mom! Want to cement the feeling for him – meet him at the gate with chocolate cake. :D</h1>
<p>geek_son comes home for the weekend pretty soon. I’m looking forward to it (and yes, there will be cake!), but a bit nervous too – there’s much I <em>want</em> to ask about (e.g., academics, social life, priorities) that he’s likely to take the wrong way. Or take the right way and not like it.</p>
<p>SJTH, that party sounds like a great time; I’ll have to chat with my empty-nest friends about doing something like that. :)</p>
<p>historymom, so sorry to hear you’ve been under the weather. I envy you the hand delivery opportunity!</p>
<p>Son did have the werewithall to call the shuttle company as soon as he could. (and on a pay phone no less) They told him if they found it they could Fed Ex it or bring it to him when they picked him up on the return leg.</p>
<p>So hopefully someone will find it and turn it in. I suspended service on it, anyway.</p>
<p>My bet is #theoryboy is getting a new phone for his B-day present a day or so before he travels</p>
<p>geekmom
I have a cake sitting on the counter which will be the first thing he sees when he walks in(belated B-day) and his favorite ice cream to go with Everyone knows the way to a boy’s heart is thru his tummy</p>
<p>and yep, I too am trying to stifle my curiosity and motherly caring and not ask a million questions</p>
<p>To get info, try to do some boring task together…sorting through the winter clothes to figure out what to bring back, perhaps…sometimes they’ll fill the pauses with random information.</p>
<p>I remember all the late winter nights when Son was an underclassmen, picking him up from musical rehearsal. I remember all the early mornings driving D to drill team practice. Once they don’t need us for transportation, it’s difficult to recreate a similar environment where the random info will pop out of them.</p>
<p>you and #theory have great minds that think alike. And it is so very true. DS is always so appreciative when I make him food he likes…hmm maybe I can entice him to do better/work harder in Math by bribing him with cake.</p>
<p>Yeah, the commute was always good for that. Drop him into the passenger seat and a few minutes later, the torrent begins. Man, I miss that! Well, I am picking him up from the airport, which will involve a good half hour or so in the car.</p>
<p>Hey there, historymom! He’s having a lot of fun – from what I gather, a l:eek:t of fun. He doesn’t sleep enough. I don’t hear much about the academics except for the bad-news parts, so right now I’m just hoping he studies enough. Thank God for first semester pass/fail grading. :o How are your twins?</p>
<p>SJTH enjoy your boy this weekend. Hope he is having a great experience and enjoys coming home to the city of roses!</p>
<p>geekmom cherish that time in the car. I know another CC memeber who always drives from her home in the mid atlantic to pu her boy in Chicago just so she can get him alone in the car.</p>
<p>Well, D2 is too far to come home for fall break. She says she’s been “abandoned” by all her friends, who live close by. I miss her.</p>
<p>What’s this show about the dress? D1 is getting married in July, and we have to dress shop sometime when she’s home (she’s away at grad school, but will get married here). I always told my girls, “It doesn’t do much for you” if I didn’t like what they had on. But a wedding dress? She’s so hard to fit and please that I just hope we find anything, something that fits and she likes.</p>
<p>When the kids were younger, I could basically just drive in circles and they never really “knew” where we were so they’d keep talking. My youngest is not a talker at all. She basically grunts at us except when she wants or needs something. She is getting better, but for a kid who was endlessly happy from birth until pre-teen, it’s tough to get used to as I am not nearly as patient as I used to be. As for son: I will have to come up with some boring “tasks” to do with him, but the next time we’ll see him is over Thanksgiving and I have a feeling it will fly by.</p>
<p>Zetesis - we are empty-nesters this weekend (D1 has no fall break and D2 is gone for the weekend) and it is WAY too quiet around here. Maybe we could “adopt” your D. Does she need a home cooked meal or a free place to do laundry? Or a fire in the fireplace - its almost cold enough :eek:</p>
<p>SJTH - I love the idea of the group care package assembly. Too late to get it together for Halloween, but I am definitely going to suggest it to my friends for Valentine’s Day.</p>
<p>I let my kids stop riding the bus when they reached HS - they thought the bus was uncool, and I was happy to have the brief time in the car with them in the morning. I especially enjoyed the mornings when we gave other kids a ride and I got to eavesdrop!</p>
<p>TLC also shows reruns of SYthD at least twice a day. I only know this because Tivo tells me. Honestly. I’m not addicted or anything. Really. I swear.</p>
<p>Love the care-package party! I think I’ll have to do one. I sent my DS a package a few weeks ago… included his retainer, and candy… pretty boring. Thanks for the idea SJTH</p>
<p>D has the flu. Sounds terrible. Coughing out a lung. Called Health Services yesterday and had to leave a message. No return phone call yet. If I were within driving distance, I’d be there. But I’m not, so she has to figure out how to deal with it herself. </p>
<p>Bummer thing about sending a kid far away to college…</p>
<p>Oh - best wishes to kids with flus and broken appendages - ouch
I am feeling very up</p>
<h1>theoryson is home and seems in very good spirits. He loves his school. Says it is HARD, but still loves it.</h1>
<p>He came to dinner with my GF and me and he was a delight. He is maturing. What fun
Now he defiinitely evaded the questions about grades, so I hope there are no very serious failures. But he says he is learning. Likes the people, and his roommates, has not really found <em>his crowd</em> yet, but will, he thinks. Loves Glee Club (my bet on where he will find <em>his crowd</em>), says the 9 other kids in his math class are “freaks of nature”, meaning they all get it and he is struggling (this a kid with 800s in his math tests), but is not discouraged (yea!). I (of course) still have things I can worry about, but I do feel so much better having seen him and talked to him face to face.
Hope the rest of you who are having your spawn back for the weekend or longer have the same positive experience.</p>
<p>Missy… I will have to track you down to kill you. I am now completely addicted to Yes to the dress (or whatever it’s called). Apparently there is some sort of marathon on tonight!! I will say, however, now that I know how it’s all about commission, I think I will encourage a wide circle of looking, and to be honest, a destination wedding sounds ideal in that it would be small and be everything you would imagine. Still, 5k and up for a dress seems steep indeed.</p>
<p>Historymom, I’m glad to hear your girls are doing so well. I have to say that Trinity is fabulous. We had a great PW a couple weeks ago. Aside from seeing D and how happy she is, the high point was meeting her wonderful new friends and joining them and their families for dinner after the football game. You’d think we’d all known each other for ages. But I certainly can relate to having a proximity of only a couple of hours’ drive. I’m likely to go up for a quick “girl time” visit in a couple of weeks. Couldn’t do that if I were flying.</p>
Everyone knows the way to a boy’s heart is thru his tummy</p>
Does she need a home cooked meal or a free place to do laundry? Or a fire in the fireplace - its almost cold enough :eek:</p>