<p>KMC - how terrifying but what a great story.</p>
<p>oh mccrindle - What a story! Of course, I knew he would be found but my gut was all twisted up! Yikes!!</p>
<p>KMC – I get shivers just thinking about it, even though I knew it would turn out okay. Sometimes I think we’re so very lucky that any kids make it to adulthood; so many possible wrong turns in the way.</p>
<p>kmc, you should copy and paste your story into an email for you son and just say you were remembering this when you heard his radio show. I’m sure he would value it, just as written. Very moving.</p>
<p>Oh, what a story. Yeah, I did have to tell myself in the middle of it, “I know it turned out okay…”</p>
<p>Son’s last grade came in. He ended up with a 3.0 for the semester-only 10 hours, but as you all know, it could have turned out so much worse.</p>
<p>One more story from moveout day. As we were packing Son’s books, H leafed through a book of quotations that an elderly woman from church had given him for graduation…at the end of the book what was there? A $10 bill…I told Son he needed to write the lady another thank you note!</p>
<p>Missy – I’m so very glad he pulled out a 3.0 . That is a huge achievement.</p>
<p>missypie, that’s great news on the grades. That was a solid accomplishment that will serve him well both for transfer purposes and future GPA. I’m sure you feel the same sense of relief I felt earlier today.</p>
<p>D1 has informed me that ‘lots of parents’ help with packing their college student’s dorm room. And there’s me picturing that she would be doing the packing herself (or most of it). My college experience so many years ago: my parents never helped with packing (well, my mother couldn’t, and my father was usually at work on move out day). As good helicopter parents, are we expected to jump in and help with the packing? (Just kidding about the helicopter part).</p>
<p>kmc~you are a consummate story teller. your writing brought me to tears…and what a very clever little boy mcson is/was. love his shout out this mother’s day, and you heard him yet again…</p>
<p>missypie~congrats and glad you have your boy home. (love the mouthwash story ;))</p>
<p>that was a great story and the best a happy ending! congrats on all the good grades, ditch the mouth wash</p>
<p>Missy and Analyst, go boys with the grades, and what a relief the first year is (almost) over. I wonder what’s in store for the sophomore kids and US?</p>
<p>"D1 has informed me that ‘lots of parents’ help with packing their college student’s dorm room. And there’s me picturing that she would be doing the packing herself (or most of it). My college experience so many years ago: my parents never helped with packing (well, my mother couldn’t, and my father was usually at work on move out day). As good helicopter parents, are we expected to jump in and help with the packing? (Just kidding about the helicopter part). "</p>
<p>D tried that one on me in 6th grade: “Lots of parents type the essays for their kids; it’s faster that way.” My response: I already graduated from middle school, and since I have no intention of following you to college, you need to figure out how to type it yourself. We had the same discussion on laundry, using the ATM to get cash, and making flight reservations. Yup, I’m the meanest mom in town. (Actually, we have a “meanest moms” club. You know – the ones who won’t let the 10th graders rent a limo to go to homecoming,…)</p>
<p>Truly, I think that a whole lot of kids in D’s generation would really, really like personal assistants. Heck, I’d like a personal assistant, particularly one who likes to fold laundry and clean out the fridge. But I’ve so far resisted, mostly successfully.</p>
<p>KM,
Thanks for posting that memory. I could almost feel your panic spending the day looking, and the elation on hearing his voice.</p>
<p>It brought back memories of hospital visits when son a tiny 7 yo, being hooked up to heart monitor. I told him it was same machine put on Eliot and E.T. Then blood work drawn every 30 minutes. SO hard to see them suffer. We cherish their lives all the more</p>
<p>KM - what a story. I can’t imagine all the thoughts that popped into your head as you were trying to locate him!</p>
<p>Good to hear that all is turning out well for the boys. I have to say I’d prefer to be pleasantly surprised by good grades (esp. in Physics) than hear the proverbial everything is “fine” all semester and have it turn out to be otherwise. </p>
<p>Time is nearing to develop a plan for SabaraySon. Crossing my fingers on that one. He just left for work and I’m hoping a week of heavy lifting will push him in the direction of he’d rather be in charge of the workers than be one of them. Hard to tell though.</p>
<p>@arabrab- had to laugh about the “personal assistant”–wasn’t there a student at Georgetown actually trying to hire one at one point?</p>
<p>Thanks, guys. I’ve had this kind of crazy idea lately where I might try to write a book for an audience of one: McSon. I thought I’d try to pull out a day/situation from each single year of my life starting with my earliest memory, and write a mini-vignette of each one as authentically as possible. I thought it might be an interesting thing to leave behind one day. I also thought it might be an interesting exercise in terms of memory.
Sometimes my own past feels foreign to me. At any rate, that day would certainly be my selection for 1998 ;)</p>
<p>Cheers to all the cliff-hanger-achievers out there. WOOT.
Makes you wonder if we shouldn’t worry, but then again, makes us wonder if we didn’t worry if the outcome would have been as strong!</p>
<p>KM, that’s a fantastic idea. I know that’s a gift I would really treasure.</p>
<p>Congrats on the job for SabaraySon. That is the next thing on S2’s list. His summer school classes are in the morning so he can work in the afternoon/evening, assuming he can find something, which he doesn’t seem to think will be a problem. He wants restaurant work since he has done that before. He dropped the physics that he no longer needs and picked up an easy elective for the first session.</p>
<p>S1 signed up to take the GMATs on the 20th, which we had been encouraging him to get out of the way. Even though he is busy, I think it is worth just banging that out while he is still in full study mode. He also wants to go to the engineering library to study up on the tehcnical stuff he will be doing in his first assignment, which is an excellent idea.</p>
<p>S starts his job next Monday morning. He decided to take a week off between graduation and working for the summer. In the fall he starts at Cornell for the combined JD/MBA program. First year is law so he doesn’t think he will work. Second year is business and he thinks that he could work during that year as that just seems to come easy to him.</p>
<p>D won’t be home until early June. She has an interview the day after she comes home for a new store that is opening. Here’s hoping that she will get hired. With running every summer and having double workout sessions during the summer she never managed to find a job before other than pet sitting for neighbors and cleaning the house for me. Hoping this goes well for her but first she needs to finish up short term.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who are finished and special congrats to those who pulled out the grades at the end!!</p>