<p>My son will come home a week from tomorrow if the snow doesn’t stop the cross country plane flight. MIT’s finals are all next week.</p>
<p>He called me several times today about various things. He let me know that his good friend from math circle got into Harvard. That didn’t surprise me a bit. This kid is seriously motivated and seriously high achieving at the national level. I knew he’d get in! Now they’ll get to see each other at least a few times during the school year.</p>
<p>Mihcal, I hope you had some animal fries at in-n-out!
Neuroticparent, my D will be headed there, too, after landing at LAX tomorrow.</p>
<p>DH and I are hosting his office party tomorrow, the same day D arrives. S is also leaving for a ski trip after 3 days home. He’ll be back 3 days before Xmas. </p>
<p>Hope all of your kids make it home safely and with little trouble!</p>
<p>Picked up D from airport this evening. Will be home for 3 weeks. Seems all worn out from finals.</p>
<p>My D is just hanging out at school because her last class was Monday and her only final isn’t until the afternoon of the 20th. She did pick up a bunch of shifts at work, so she’ll make some decent money at least! I really wish she was home before the 21st though. </p>
<p>Barnard’s ED letters were mailed yesterday and the girls in NYC got their letters today so the ED thread in the Barnard forum is going nuts with girls waiting. I’m so glad we’re not in that place anymore! (although my D applied RD, Barnard was absolutely her first choice).</p>
<p>S finished his last final this afternoon and will be heading home tomorrow. His best friend is in college nearby and has a car, so he’ll be picking S up in the morning and they should be here by mid-afternoon. Can’t wait to see him!</p>
<p>Fun, fun… youngest got in a car accident last night (all people are ok, but it was his fault and we didn’t have collision on our car…) If it’s not an easy, quick fix (will find out today), that’s going to make getting middle son a challenge next week - not to mention - make his heading out places and doing things a bigger challenge too. One vehicle with 3 drivers (not counting youngest - he only had his permit due to the epilepsy throwing him off schedule) and differing schedules…</p>
<p>Then there’s the added expense at a time when work for hubby is traditionally low, college bills are there, and Christmas.</p>
<p>But at least everyone is ok. It could have been much worse. I also feel fortunate that I wasn’t with him at the time, but feel for hubby. Hubby’s also the one who really has to rearrange his schedule to drop us off and pick us up at school daily - for who knows how long. Hopefully less than a week, but time will tell.</p>
<p>Back to your regularly scheduled programming, but add an extra hug in for all as one never knows with accidents.</p>
<p>Less than one week until S’16 is with us (if all goes as planned)!</p>
<p>Creekland - sorry to hear about the accident. As you said, what’s important is everyone is fine. Look at a bright side, you’ll have more together side because of limited transportation. Hang in there.</p>
<p>Creekland, sorry about the accident, but at least it took place near school and not in the middle of nowhere on a long drive home. Hope it can work out as best it can.</p>
<p>Sorry to her it Creekland! Hopefully it will all work out. I am glad everyone is safe.</p>
<p>So sorry, Creekland!!! I’m glad everyone is OK. What a bummer. 
Maybe your middle son can find a ride home with someone. My guys head west toward Buffalo and Cleveland. But you’re more east coast, right? Maybe he can put a message on the class of 2016 FB page for a ride, or ask around. So glad everyone is OK. How’s your S? Getting in a wreck or even a close call is scary and can really leave a person shaken up. But since no one was hurt, I’d call it a cheap lesson - he won’t ever be one of those teen drivers who don’t take caution seriously. ((hugs))</p>
<p>Pn - middle son is actually flying out of Rochester. That’s been set for a bit. Our challenge now is to be able to pick him up AND get back in time to pick up youngest from school. I believe youngest has a Chess practice or match that day. If so, it all works out. If not, he’ll have to hang out with friends for a bit. I seriously doubt that will disappoint him now that I think about it. I’ve already taken off for the day, so I don’t have to worry about a ride.</p>
<p>Youngest is my Aspie. If he’s shaken up from the crash, he’s kept it to himself. We did try talking with him last night about typical “after crash” feelings, but he definitely wasn’t into it. Aspies are incredibly “different.” There are times when I wish he would share more with us - this being one of those times as I can’t really imagine it doesn’t affect him (but maybe not…). We did try to emphasize that we aren’t condemning him (nor punishing him) for the mistake - it’s just one to learn from. He will, however, be paying for and/or working off the fine - normal consequences of life - not punishment.</p>
<p>Aren’t there others with Aspies on here? Any thoughts? Mine is highly functional and can even fool some with his social skills, but the social skills are definitely all learned (and not terrific).</p>
<p>Oh Creekland how scary on the accident. I’m so glad no one was injured.</p>
<p>Congrats on the job, BarnardMom!</p>
<p>One more week until S comes home! I just messaged him to remind him to spend down his meal dollars (he has $80 for the semester and hasn’t used many–he almost always eats in the dining hall) before they disappear. I told him he could just go buy candy bars and snacks and give them to his sister for Christmas.</p>
<p>Creekland… so sorry about the accident but glad everyone is ok.</p>
<p>Creekland - I don’t have experience with apergers, but enough quirkiness in our family that I’ve read up about it a lot! Maybe he’s just being analytic instead of emotional. No one was hurt, a car can be fixed, a fine can be paid. OK - deal with it and move on. ???</p>
<p>Pn - that’s what I’m hoping for. It’s a better alternative to keeping it inside. The latter is what I’m worried about.</p>
<p>If anyone on here is in any way connected to those in CT, you have my hugs. <<<>>></p>
<p>Every single time one of these events happens it sends a shiver down everyone at school. I’m thankful I’m just dealing with a car and teenager…</p>
<p>So sorry Creekland. Glad your son is doing okay. </p>
<p>Maybe your older son has a friend you could pay to pick him up from the airport.</p>
<p>I just heard about the CT incident on the radio. Awful. My heart goes out to those folks.</p>
<p>Killing time @Houston Hobby. S’s flight is ten minutes late–not complaining.</p>
<p>Creekland – Your H must have nerves of steel. I suspended driving lessons when S rubbed bumpers with my parked pickup. No real biggie except he couldn’t tell he was in contact! Glad everyone’s OK.</p>
<p>So I sent in the payment for D1’s semester abroad yesterday. Since I have already paid for D2’s second semester it brought us to the interesting milestone of being halfway through the combined 8 years of college tuition payments - 1 year left for D1, 3 years for D2. Not going out to buy that new car yet, but it does feel good to know we are on the back half of the curve.</p>
<p>The light at the end of the tunnel, 1012mom! Congrats!</p>
<p>Two days ago I decided we would go on a Caribbean vacation after New Year. It took me few hours to book it and paid for it. I then got a panic call from D2 that she had left her passport at school. Now, why would anyone leave their passport at school for 6+weeks. I told her to call housing to get her passport home. She was in the midst of working it out when I realized that my nephew was still on campus. Between three of them, they were able to arrange to have someone to let my nephew into her room and retrieve the passport. D2 told me that someone from housing was going to FedEx her passport to her if needed. For such a large school, I am just amazed how helpful they could be. </p>
<p>D2 also told me that she is not sure if she has clothes to on vacation with because she has most of her stuff up at school. Now, I don’t think I could get anyone to get her clothes.</p>