<p>Those are all very good points, Analyst. I think I’m just tired of all the back and forth that’s been going on for some time, so I think it best to not be involved in it for a while. I am not particularly hung up on her having a minor in anything.</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day everyone! I am very happily listening to the sounds of a vacuum cleaner being operated by my son.</p>
<p>Love the vacuum! My 16 year old son likes to cook, so he made me BBQ brisket, roasted potato wedges, and fried mozzarella cheese sticks for Sunday lunch - of course, they happen to be some of his favorite foods, too.</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day everybody! Had a lovely afternoon golfing with DH, spoke with both stepdaughters, and at 4 pm am still waiting for S to call. ARGH.</p>
<p>Happy Mothers day all. Just back with S from his graduation. Hope everyone had a great day.</p>
<p>had a lovely day, my H got me alovely round birdhouse, and a neckalce that my friend had made with a silver nest and two pink pearls, lovely. anything to do with my girls I love, and he remembered I have wanted to put one of those birdhouses in the garden A plus for him! and both D’s are home the best!!!</p>
<p>Well, I was waiting for a phone call from D for most of the afternoon and was a little blue… When H, S and I left to go out to eat, I checked my cell phone and there was a message from D from 12:02AM wishing me Happy Mom’s day. She said couldn’t have gotten through freshman year without me.<br>
Not exactly sure what I did but I’ll take it!
Happy Mother’s Day to all my friends on CC!!</p>
<p>Got the lovely call so I can relax…plus he says his 3.8 gap is holding. Really? My kiddo? =)</p>
<p>cpeltz, wasn’t it your kiddo who had to almost be talked into going to that college? Sounds like it was exactly the right place for him. I am so happy for you both.</p>
<p>My M-day present was S doing all his own laundry.</p>
<p>Yes, #TM, my son resisted his school even though it was clearly his best choice. He’s thriving, good friends, his first GF…I want that “thanks, you were right, mom” some day!</p>
<p>feel very fortunate to have spent the day with my youngest and my mom…first I insisted showing my mom Betty White bits from SNL ~ we all howled.<br>
We went out for linner, (late lunch early dinner~ it is Florida after all ;)) and then went bowling. what fun we had three generations together, although my mom gave my s more bowling tips than he’d ever want to hear, (she’s still in a bowling league at 81). my 8th grader had a bag of gifts for me, including red roses, sooo sweet! my older kids haven’t finished their semester yet, missed them…but older s sent sentimental and beautiful gift and called me while I opened it, d called and said she was putting finishing touches on something she was making for me. she also called yesterday to talk and I told her THAT was a gift as I love knowing she wants to talk with me, feel blessed…</p>
<p>You will get that someday ,<em>Mom</em> :-)</p>
<p>you ARE blessed Lindz.</p>
<p>H and I went up to my parent’s house for the weekend to help with chores. I had a feeling that older D and her boyfriend would be joining us as a surprise. This morning my mother and I are planting flowers when who should drive up but youngest D. Was I ever surprised.!!!
She rented a Zipcar on campus and drove three hours to surprise me. Her dad and sister were all in on the surprise, as well as my parents. I was totally surprised. I didn’t even recognize her until she got out of the car. I just assumed it was one of my mother’s friends. </p>
<p>She will drive back very early tomorrow, since she doesn’t get out of school until June 12. I am trying to stay up past my bedtime to soak up every minute I can, but boy I feel old.</p>
<p>Just checked in and cannot possibly read all of the posts that you prolific folks have produced, but Happy Mother’s Day.</p>
<p>ShawSon came home for the weekend so Mother’s Day was full for ShawMom, though he was writing a paper and studying for finals in this upcoming week. </p>
<p>There was an earlier post by geogirl asking about what kids with disabilities should do. I think the answer to that is a big “It depends.” Here’s my limited experience thus far. </p>
<p>ShawSon is extremely smart and severely dyslexic. He needs support – a tutor records a lot of his reading. He can write well but gets fatigued doing so. But, he revels in intellectual challenge and lack of challenge is painful for him. He is working very hard but enjoying his freshman year at a highly selective LAC. Last week he got an email inviting him to an awards ceremony with the President’s. The school appears to give an award with a cash prize to freshman and juniors in some but not all of the departments (I didn’t quite get a clear picture). He won the award for the top freshman studying economics (which is the largest department in the school). He got a small financial prize as well, which will more than cover his library fines for the year. He needs accommodations and support to do as well as he does. We’re working on converting him to making better use of technology for reading and writing, and he’s moving in the direction of limiting the reading and writing courses even more carefully (he ended up with three courses with either lots of reading, lots of writing or both this semester, which is just too much for him). Even though he loved his courses, he’s recoiled from that level of writing/writing and next semester, none of his courses have meaningful reading and none will have writing. Can you say theorems or derivations? </p>
<p>But, geogirl, in high school, he decided to join Moot Court, which we thought was insane yet nothing improved his writing as much as Moot Court (and my working with him on each case for the first year). He’s now joined the debate team, which is helping his speaking. So you never know what will work. He’ll need guidance to get into a career that can tap his strengths, which are pretty impressive, and sidestep his deficits that are pretty impressive in their own way as well. But, I wouldn’t have suggested going to a lesser school – but I did suggest he avoid schools that wouldn’t be flexible with him including my beloved alma mater. He’s competitive, perhaps hyper-competitive. He always wants to win and wants to compete against strong competition. Finding the right school meant threading the needle – the kids had to be really smart and the school had to be flexible.</p>
<p>My daughter is very bright and ADHD. Extremely anxious. Ritalin and extra time have helped lots – especially Ritalin. She struggled with math in the past and is blowing away junior math. Overall she’s emerging as a strong student. But, the anxiety means that she would not be able to handle a place with lots of pressure. We’re trying to find a school for her where the general standards are high but the feeling is cooperative more than competitive. She gets fewer accommodations and less support, though I’ve been trying to teach her how to write research papers this year. She likes more concrete fields than my son and is great with people. Kids absolutely adore her. In her case, as she figures out what she likes, I’ll try to guide her toward careers that would work for her. Her current academic interests are biology – really loves the detailed mechanisms – and art history – and working with people. I think a doctor or nurse might be a possibility but I’m not pushing anything now. She’s working really hard at a high pressure private HS, so we don’t want to add any extra expectations.</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope you all have enjoyed Mother’s Day. Yesterday, I was stuck in London with volcanic ash (but just for an extra three hours). I was stuck in London for 5 days in the first outbreak, and for better or for worse, I have to go back in a week. I hope the volcano gods smile on me.</p>
<p>So I found out why S wants to continue with CS. despite his difficulties with Java and the prof that taught it. He wants to go into Artificial Intelligence. This is highly math oriented, but is still considered computer science.
I think he will be wanting to go to grad school (need to see how his grades are this last term to see if it looks like he will be continuing at this school.) He wants to continue with some CS courses so he can go on in AI. I think he may be making decisions too soon. I still think he could go into AI in grad school with a degree just in Math, but it is good, I think, for him to have a goal.</p>
<p>I now know yet another thing that folks with Executive Function Disorder can’t do well…pack a dorm room! If Son thought he was getting ready for our arrival, he was wrong. I could tell that things had been moved around…the books were off the shelf and spread all over the mattress and floor…but not a thing was stacked or packed or gone through. I kept coming across papers and stuff where Son would say, “Oh, so *that’s *where that was…” How can things get utterly lost in a tiny dorm room?</p>
<p>I lost count of how many loads of laundry I did the rest of the weekend. I felt the need to wash EVERYTHING that had been in that room.</p>
<p>And NEVER send a pack rat husband to dorm clean out…while I was packing, H was in the suitemates’ empty room, their bathrooms and even other empty rooms scavanging for stuff…okay, I guess it’s fine that we now have four half-used bottles of laundry detergent that kids left behind…but we also have their mouthwash! H is going to use the rest of bottles of MOUTHWASH that college kids left behind. ICK ICK ICK ICK ICK!!!</p>
<p>Oh my goodness. </p>
<p>Saturday was clean up day at the Sabaray house. Son willingly worked with me to get his room in some type of organization. So that was a plus. </p>
<p>Talked with D at length last night, she has since added another course to her fall schedule. Not Latin, but one that will allow for some creative outlets.</p>
<p>Missypie, Mouthwash?? Misterpie must not be trusted to this assignment in the future. FWIW (not much), my D’s last final is today. I finally got my mother’sday/Sunday phone call last night. It quickly turned into a heated argument as it was revealed (as suspected) that she has made no arrangements whatsoever for storing her stuff over the summer. Yes, she was hoping that I would have taken care of it for her from 200 miles away. She was mildly contrite (eventually). I’m still ticked off. We are leaving Friday for 2 weeks and she will need to pack for that when we get home. I really do not want to make multiple trips or totally exhaust myself schlepping boxes (hypothetical boxes – I’m sure she has none given how things have gone) to a storage facility. She has the info for Pods and SmartBoxes, just hasn’t dealt with it. She has assured me that it will happen immediately after her exam. ACK!</p>
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<p>ICK! Yes, I agree (as does H, who envies these great conversations we have). But had to laugh at “Misterpie”! </p>
<p>Nice day yesterday – got flowers, and an early morning phone call from D1, and early text message and later phone call from D2; and got take out and took it to eat with my Mom. Sweet all around.</p>