<p>No. What you would do is to just pay extra for the remainder months. As an example, if you projected you were suppose to 12,000 for 6 months (2K each month), but then you found out you actually suppose to pay 14,000 and you are 2 months into the payment, you would just take 2000/4=500 and add that to your 2000 (2500) for the remainder 4 months.</p>
<p>Ok. Thank you! In previous years I’d gotten loans for what I couldn’t pay immediately but I don’t want any more loans at this point if I can avoid it. It is still difficult trying to plan when you have no idea what the package will look like but that takes some of the stress off of it. </p>
<p>Hi all, I finally re-installed the CC iPad app. It broke at the beginning of the year and so my routine changed for checking in on everyone. </p>
<p>My St. Lawrence S is doing great. He now has a good handle on the academics, and is more balanced with all the activities he gets to do at school (many music interests). He loves everything about his geology major and so I am thrilled he found his niche. </p>
<p>I can’t believe our students will be juniors in college! I love my new free time, as this is my youngest, but always look forward to them coming home.</p>
<p>Just made it home late last night with my guy. The timing couldn’t have been better with Mother’s Day today and his birthday tomorrow… Even the ride home was fun as we spent it catching up on stories. He’s doing really, really well and will be both an RA in a freshman dorm and a TA for Organic Chem next year. That will, of course, mean no “early releases” after exams… but he’ll be good at the job(s).</p>
<p>HAPPY MOTHERS DAY</p>
<p>D’12 came home last night for Mothers Day festivities. Next week begins the mad dash through Semester end assignments and finals! Hope you all enjoy your summer. :-bd </p>
<p>I had a surprise visit from my son today, so had an enjoyable day with him. He is so fun to be around, so I look forward to having him around this summer, which I suspect will be his last here. He wasn’t going to be home until later this week but detoured here for a day before he takes done down time with his buds.</p>
<p>Phew. BarnardGirl made it through the term. It was a rough term for her- her most demanding yet. Yesterday she had to move from one dorm to another- several blocks away and it was a bit of a challenge for her but she got it done. It is a temporary room until the one where she will stay through early August is ready for move-in. She’ll be an RA for one of Barnard’s pre college programs- the one she attended the summer before her senior year that made her fall in love with Barnard and NYC. </p>
<p>BarnardGirl’s boyfriend has graduated from the University of Michigan and moved to Brooklyn. He starts his new job at Yelp in June. They went to Florida today for his brother’s high school graduation and will be there until Tuesday. </p>
<p>This summer, BarnardGirl will be doing her RA thing, doing an unpaid internship, and working her usual campus job. She’ll be busy, but I think she’ll have fun and it will be better than her fast food stint last summer and that unpaid internship she was doing last summer too!</p>
<p>It’s been absolutely great having my guy home for an extended period of time. He’s jumped back into being a super helpful farm hand, work, and household assistant while providing great company at the same time.</p>
<p>Someone is going to get a superb husband some day.</p>
<p>School went well for him too.</p>
<p>I’m going to be happy for him when he returns, but I’ll also miss him terribly - esp since we’ll be empty nesting at that point - a huge change.</p>
<p>DD’12 is finish with her foreign language requirement! She flies home Thursday, just in time to attend her brother’s H.S. graduation. Just got off the phone with her, she is very upbeat. Can’t wait to get her in back. :)</p>
<p>Well, 3 days home and we already had to re-load up the fridge. The good part is that he eats healthy, so I don’t mind that he ate all the homemade black bean salsa and other nutritious stuff. </p>
<p>Enjoy your sons and daughters as they come home! </p>
<p>D is home. Her summer plans are coming together. She has an interview this week for a summer volunteer gig.</p>
<p>D1 graduated Summa Cum Laude last weekend. She is gainfully employed and yesterday I helped her move into her new room in a house shared with 5 other twenty-somethings working in Boston. Hard to believe she is all grown up. D2 finished sophomore year with great academic success despite an insane schedule. Both are home for a week - Love it! before D1 starts her job and D2 flies off for her internship abroad. I will miss them terribly this summer (first one with no one home), but am so happy that they are happy.</p>
<p>Sounds like an excellent launch, 1012mom. Congrats!</p>
<p>D will be home in a week from her study abroad. We can’t wait to see her. She has had a fabulous time but is ready to be done. I could hear it in her voice.</p>
<p>She loves her “madre’s” cooking! Because she is a vegetarian, she was worried how she would fare, but now she has learned to eat beans and nuts. I am thrilled because this opens up healthier options for her diet. She’s in Madrid and loves being able to walk around the city, getting places easily on public transportation. Our small town will be a big change! We can’t get anywhere on foot.</p>
<p>Her summer employment opportunities all fell through, though she may have a research option at her college. As a backup, she can always work for me or go back to lifeguarding.</p>
<p>So how is the summer going? D1 started her “real world” job, and D2 has left the US for her internship abroad. Only the dogs are home with the grown-ups.</p>
<p>D2 demonstrated that really smart kids can be real airheads by managing to lose 2 ATM cards, kept in 2 separate wallets, within just 24 hours. Thank heavens for Xoom (money changing website that is great for those abroad in South America). So she has cash, the bank cards are stopped, and I will bring her replacements when I visit in a few weeks.</p>
<p>For those of you with DCs going abroad in the fall I say beware the first night or so. In my experience most have that panicked I don’t know what is happening, I can’t find my way, I am afraid of the city reaction. It is all “pass the drama to the mama (or papa)” for the first Skype calls. As of Friday night she had a weekend plan of movies, dinner and dancing, and a day at the beach. So she seems to have figured it out.</p>
<p>Hi there everyone. Summer is going well - S2 was home for almost a month then left for his 5 week abroad program last week. </p>
<p>1012mom - your post was timely. He adjusted well the first few nights but after several nights of “exploring” the city (so to speak…) and getting up early for class, he hit a wall and I got that call. He doesn’t do well without sleep and is my more anxious kid anyway, so I was sort of expecting it. He too had lots of plans for the weekend, so I think things have settled down. Boy do I hate those calls…</p>
<p>Hope all the kids are doing well with their summer endeavors. Keep your fingers crossed that my guy actually finds some kind of employment when he returns although I’m not too optimistic since summer will be half over! 
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<p>I was just coming here to write in this thread and was happy to see it active. BarnardGirl came home for her brother’s graduation and was here for about 10 days. I just dropped her at the airport to head back to NYC and it was the hardest drop off for me since freshman move-in. I don’t know if I’m already more emotional because S14 graduated and is getting ready to go to college now, leaving me with an empty nest or if it is because BarnardGirl won’t be here all summer or what. This feels really tough though. I think the reality has sunk in that she won’t ever really live here again. Whatever the reason, my eyes keep leaking. </p>
<p>D1 never lived home after sophomore summer. It was hard for me to take. It is always harder with the first one. I am emotionally better prepared with D2. But I may end up having her home longer than D1 because she will most likely go to law school and because I am in NYC she may live at home while doing her internships.</p>
<p>S1 was home for about 3 weeks. Got his wisdom teeth pulled out and is now gone for 10 weeks doing what he loves - research. He will not be here for S2’s graduation on the 25th or awards, but I don’t think it bothers either one of them. </p>
<p>Youngest has graduated now and it was nice that middle was here for it. He’s actually home for most of the summer, only leaving for two weeks for a medical mission trip to the Ivory Coast. The gas company is relocating a pipeline that crosses our farm, so his paid summer job for this year is relocating fences for our ponies before this happens. It’s ideal that the opportunity is this year (and totally paid by the gas company). Starting in the fall, he already has his #1 choice lab job lined up, so all appears well.</p>
<p>In the meantime, he plans to join me on a couple of Dr appts. I told him he’s “lucky.” It’s not every mom who’s willing to get a brain tumor (+ more) just to fanangle getting their pre-med offspring some additional shadowing time. I’ll admit to wondering if, perhaps, it’s a little “too close to home” for him (esp since the news won’t be “good” though I’ve no idea how “bad” it will be), but he assures me it’s not. We’ll see. If nothing else, I suppose it’s good “hubby training” for him in case he needs it for the future.</p>