<p>hurry - I hope that is the case for you son. I’m assuming since a week has gone by with no word, it may very well been dropped.</p>
<p>I’m thinking the older the kids get the less the partying? Not sure, just imagining first semester freshman year is the time to really cut loose.</p>
<p>As far as traveling - hubby and I made it a policy to take a vacation just the two of us once a year. The kids get all our time and attention the rest of the year, and we usually scheduled it while they were at camp. Of course my daughter fell off her horse at camp on our last day and our plane got cancelled at San Juan so we were stuck an extra day. Luckily it was just a broken elbow but not the best way to end a vacation.</p>
<p>Are your college freshmen deciding their summer plans yet? Our’s is considering a few internships, but I am secretly hopeful she will return to her summer job from last year, so we can see her more.</p>
<p>We’ve always taken our Anniversary off for a quick trip - almost always without kids, once or twice (on longer duration trips - one month or so) with kids. We’ve never, ever, regretted it. We usually don’t even go somewhere famous preferring instead to find a small, quiet place (goes with my crowd allergy), so can find a motel/campground on a lake or river or something - usually with a small museum or neat hike or something that we take a pic of and hang on our wall. Seeing the two of us through “the ages” brings back some incredible memories.</p>
<p>Otherwise, for summer, my guy has been checking out options and applying to some. We might have a better update when we pick him up for spring break (less than one week now!). One week from now I’ll be taking youngest to the SAT…</p>
<p>hurry - I do hope the incident remains a warning call to those guys, as opposed to something more serious.</p>
<p>DS has applied for a couple of research opportunities. If they don’t work out, he will return to his summer job from last year. Depending on which program he does, we might see him for 2 weeks before research or for a month before and after the summer job.</p>
<p>@mathinokc - what will DD be doing in Azerbaijan???</p>
<p>My D has applied for the same internship she had last summer. They want her back but the funding (as with all federal funding just now, including work-study!) is uncertain. She’s looking at some other internship possibilities, too, and summer school as a backup.</p>
<p>Page 3! Had to rescue the thread… Let’s see…</p>
<p>Only 4 more days until we’re on our way to pick our guy (and a friend) up for spring break! I’m glad the snow is expected for Wed, not Friday.</p>
<p>Youngest son won the regional open division Chess Tournament this past weekend - following right in middle son’s footsteps. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get to go to states due to budget cuts and the rest of the team doing rather dismally this year. They graduated three really good seniors last year. So, I’m both thrilled for his win (his first major win not counting individual matches for competition), but disappointed that he can’t see how high he could go. (Middle son won the state individual tournament last year… the team got 5th or 6th.)</p>
<p>D’s schedule is complete! She signed up for Swahili when drop/add opened and called me. I suggested she continue to watch the schedule to see if any of her other choices would work. Lo and behold, 2 hours into it, a space in beginning anthro opened and it is hers!</p>
<p>Swahili is the intro to African Studies: language and culture course and while it would have been okay, certainly not the first choice.</p>
<p>We are all feeling good about third trimester today!</p>
<p>D2 was struggling in Econ, so I told her to take it P/F. She told me tonight, “I am not exactly stupid. If some idiots could get a B in that class, I think I should be able to get an A.” I thought to myself, “That’t the spirit.” (just hope she is smarter than those idiots) D2 is a humanities student. I “forced” her to take an econ course to round off her education. I just hope it’ll end well.</p>
<p>Can you all believe they only have a couple months left of the first year of college? D will be home on the 14th for Spring Break. When she goes back to school on the 23rd, she’ll only have 6-7 weeks left. Incredible.</p>
<p>The Boy is Home!!! We are having a special day together tomorrow for my b-day. He is joining Glee Club next year so we realized that this may be the last Spring Break that he will be home! Still, life seems good and he is thrilled with his school. He is the rush chair of his fraternity during their recruitment weekend and it is crazy to see him so mature when he is on the phone running a planning meeting.</p>
<p>S comes home Friday. He’s been in flux over his major/s and his “job” this week was to go talk to some advisors. He needs to figure out what to register for next year and I don’t understand the requirements enough to even give suggestions. Hopefully he’s figured out the details of housing as well, though it sounds like he’s at least half way on the ball.</p>
<p>I’m a bit in the mindset that unless you have something super specific in mind, the major in undergrad isn’t the be all end all, let’s just get through and get a degree. Then use the masters/phd when you have a specific goal in mind. </p>
<p>I think he believes if the film crew isn’t showing up to make a movie about your startling intelligence, you may have no business majoring in it. </p>
<p>Should be some interesting conversations over spring break.</p>
1 year down, 3 to go.</p>