<p>laxtaxi: have a productive and fun week with your other child! </p>
<p>eggmom cute text. short but very sweet! DDs b-day is always during a school break so for now I always have them home DS may always be home too. w/ a late May b-day I suppose it will depend on the school he chooses.</p>
<p>hosted my first sip and ship last night and it went well. A couple of key people couldn’t make it but those who did had a good time and I have two flat rate boxes all packed up for H to mail off to the girls today :D</p>
<p>Just talked to Son on the phone. He sounds so so so sick. He’s really too sick to be going to class but he’s the last kid in the school who should be skipping class. He got a z-pack, so hopefully that will help.</p>
<p>Car got fixed Monday morning. He’s done on Friday at noon. </p>
<p>He’s always been so healthy - he was never this sick on my watch! Of course, I remember that from college too - getting so run down and not eating right and not sleeping enough.</p>
<p>Back from the surgery center. D1’s wrist procedure went well! Yay! Will ship her back to school tonight. Threw my back out yesterday…not so Yay. We fly out to Mexico on Friday and I can barely move. I hate being old</p>
<p>Missypie – sending you a hug across the miles. You seem to be keeping it together incredibly well considering the potential fallout of all you have been experiencing with your S. Must be something in that cyberflask recipe that is making you so brave and sensible! Really hope you are able to resolve some of the issues once you can actually see your S and have him home over the Spring Break.I don’t even know what my S is doing for his break……but am hoping to head over to the US to see him for a month in the summer with my H yay yay!</p>
<p>NM - glad to hear your D’s surgery went well - hoping for a speedy recovery. And I hope your back recovers in time to enjoy your trip.</p>
<p>S is staying at college over spring break. To my delight, he managed to figure out how to get from Worcester to Boston to meet a friend yesterday - his first time riding a train.</p>
<p>Sounds like fun Zcm!
laxtaxi - D will visit her brother in Montreal over her break. S says it has been quite mild this winter. That may be all relative though. I know he hasn’t worn his enormous Canada Goose jacket in a while…
Missypie - Thank goodnes for Zpak - does he have long to drive on friday??
Aww Eggmom - what a sweet text!
PS Modadunn where are you?? Did I miss something.
Historymom - I like that–> sip’n’ship!
Northminn - You are constantly on the go! WOW!
ffscout - EDM??</p>
<p>OMG!!! D gets to go to the first round of the NCAA Men’s bball tourney and then gets to keep traveling w/ the team as long as they are still in it!! An alumni group pays flight, hotel & food for the sports band! Don’t know what venue yet but it could be anywhere the bracketologists decide. So excited for my reticent, quiet, “I’d rather miss an opportunity all together than spend 20 minutes with someone I don’t know well” kid. I do believe she chose the right school.</p>
<p>NM have fun on your trip</p>
<p>MP: Glad he got the car fixed. That’s something I think and call me a rebel but I would stick the meds in a plastic Easter egg along with a Hershey’s kiss or two and send them along with some socks in a care package. Hope he feels better!</p>
<p>Hi everyone else! Enjoy your spring breaks w/ or w/o your kids!</p>
<p>How exciting about the NCAA tournament! That’s the one problem with spring break coming when it does. By the time we get home, so much of the field has been elimiated.</p>
<p>And Mexico…as long as you can get down there, feeling sore on a beach chair in Mexico beats feeling sore in Minnesota.</p>
<p>Haven’t decided what to do about the ADD mets but we did make him an appointment down there for Thursday, so he’ll come home with his meds. We’ll have to see after that.</p>
<p>I drafted an email for Son to send to all of his teachers asking about his grades and he said he sent it. I don’t know if it’s because I’m distupting their office move, or because the Center for Academic Success only loves you when you have academic success, but I can tell that those folks are sick of hearing from me and that they won’t lift a finger to help. </p>
<p>I am SO GLAD that I have y’all to vent to. Sorry if I’m posting too much about bad stuff. Feel free to ignore me. It just helps to get it out.</p>
<p>Missypie - you go and rant my dear…(Lord knows, I’ve done my share!) I really hope that missypieS’s problems are resolved quickly and satisfactorily but when you put a photo of a burning airplane in your post, I can’t help but laugh. Your humor is such a gift!</p>
<p>Hello all. I have been a lurker at this site for quite awhile. My DD is in her first year of college and my nest is empty. </p>
<p>I have been sick the last few days with the nasty flu and I do say I have been feeling quite sorry for myself! My daughter will soon celebrate her 1st birthday away from her family and I am missing her quite a bit these days. I was in the house of self-pity when I decided to check up on my favorite site and boy if noone has never said it you guys are amazing. </p>
<p>The issues you all have to deal with, compounded with the fact that your kids are far away-I don’t think I could do it. I now realize what a baby I’ve been these last few days. No wonder I work so many hours if I stayed home all day I would spend the hours crying for my daughter. I would turn into a blubbering idiot. Now I am thankful for my job!</p>
<p>You all-especially MissyPie have forced me to suck it up and just start working on her birthday care package. The committment, advice, and genuine concern you all share certainly helped this sick puppy in her time of need.</p>
<p>Welcome, crtgirl. This is truly a supportive group and a safe place to vent, cry, celebrate, worry, laugh…you name it. Some of us lived through the pain of the application/acceptance/decision process, some are new, and through it all we have managed to keep this thread a haven. I hope you feel better, and missing your kid is definitely never a reason to feel ashamed!</p>
<p>We are counting down the days til Saturday: D comes home for a week of break AND it looks like we are due for sunshine and warm weather (70s). She can’t wait. She has discovered she really misses the sunshine and warmth. And us. That’s nice.</p>
<p>** Firefly fans: care package **</p>
<p>To brighten the gray winter days and stress this week (four exams before break), I sent her a copy of the knitted stocking hat that Jayne Cobb’s mom (for those who don’t know, Jayne is male) sends him in the episode “The Message.” Took me a while to get the pattern and colors just right; my husband jokes the hat is worth $100 bucks; but D’s response was worth it!</p>
<p>Also want to add the reassurance to MP that this is the place for venting. Sharing your struggle and the one your S has had helps make this a haven.</p>
<p>On that note twinK and I just got off the phone. She is confident that she is having a far better semester…she better :mad: …and recognizes that getting herself up to the 2.0 is essential for life as she knows it to continue. After Jan term she has a 1.6 so things are looking a bit rosier than they were. (now there is a phrase I never imagined myself typing!!)</p>
<p>Has anyone else had their kid decide to switch majors because it turned out to be tougher than expected?</p>
<p>ETA Yay for hand knitted caps, sun shine and kids coming home!</p>
<p>Zetesis, I have a kid who would take one of those caps! (plus a Klein bottle hat)</p>
<p>History – How cool that the pep band gets to go on adventures. Thanks goodness she doesn’t have to ride in a car for ten hours after this tournament! Glad to hear twinK is taking care of her business this semester. I know she really wants to stay there! :)</p>
<p>“switch majors because it turned out to be tougher than expected?”
S was accepted into an honors econ program. Very heavily math-based and he was in way over his head. WARNING: DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD TAKE CALC II IN COLLEGE AFTER AP CALC AB. I don’t care if they have a 5 - it’s just not the same.
He dropped the Honors component; stuck with econ and picked up a second major. However, his GPA really took a hit from those original Calc II and Linear Algebra grades.</p>
<p>^^^S2 has already taken that advice to heart and will start whatever calc he has to take from scratch. He figures AB will give him the benefit of having a clue about what they’re doing and less of a scramble for a decent grade. He is decent at math but does not love it, so torturing himself with Calc is not on his agenda.</p>
<p>Okay, the last shoe has dropped. Did y’all feel the earth shake at your house? Just got the “we think you should come pick up your child” call. I may or may not go into it more detail at a later date but due to the circumstances I am furious at everyone I’ve been talking to at the school in the last week.</p>
DS may always be home too. w/ a late May b-day I suppose it will depend on the school he chooses.</p>
and call me a rebel but I would stick the meds in a plastic Easter egg along with a Hershey’s kiss or two and send them along with some socks in a care package. Hope he feels better!</p>