Parents of the HS Class of 2012 - New beginnings

<p>Would this be helicoptering…I am going up to D2’s school for business - recruiting and as a speaker.</p>

<p>I heard from S2 - he actually replied to my email at work - he feels fine today. This is one of these good lessons to learn early on I guess (before the freshman 15 sets in). </p>

<p>Now you all know that since I ordered one of those phones with a keyboard this morning and am upgrading my ancient cell phone plan and old phone so that I can actually text - he starts replying to my emails. I think he knew I was worried - it was nice of him to let me know he is fine. Of course, not a word was written about his first day of classes…</p>

<p>oldfort - business is business - part of making a living…I don’t see it as helicoptering</p>

<p>oldfort - it’s only helicoptering if you sit in on her classes while you’re there! ;)</p>

<p>Updating this for Today’s launches!
Launching today 9/5/12- Best wishes for absweetmarie’s D, dentmom4’s D, huxleyalum’s S2, amtc’s D</p>

<p>ALREADY LAUNCHED!
7/15 huxleyalum S1
8/08 weatherga’s D
8/10 MemphisGuy’s S
8/11 vlines’s S, TX12DanceMom’s D, RTRMom2’s S
8/12 momophony’s S, DctMom73’s D
8/14 Debbie7452’s D, Lilmom’s D, GoIrish2013 S
8/15 ReneeD7’s D, familyof3boys’ S, woody35’s D, MeteorMom’s S, geogirl’s S, hsmom2dncrs’ S, ready2bdone’s D, Elkyes’ S, katie93mom’s D
8/16 jackief’2 D, psychmomma’s D, mequonmom’s D, irishmary203’s D
8/17 Oldfort’s D2, michal1’s D, Chrissyblu’s D, Tebow1’s D, 911C2S’s S, gaelicbred’s D, JGCMom’s S
8/18 annasdad’s D, MizzBee’s S, Rushedmom’s D, soh2000’s D, bubmom’s D, TNVandymom’s S, ENsMom’s D
8/19 kleibo’s S, mspearl’s D, nervousnellie1’s S, PinotNoir’s S
8/20 jmnva06’s D, showmom858’s D, Buttercup1735’s D, Bucasmom’s S
8/21 college_query’s S, momsings S, stressed56’s D, allboyz’ S
8/22 Mom2M’s D, kc1214mom’s D, Sunshinestatemom’s D, WalkingTessie’s D, Itsthatime’s S, student2D’s S, ohiobassmom’s S, StantonMom’s S, Intouch1520’s D
8/23 eyemamom’s S, Lakemom’s S, PNWedwonk’s S, 1012mom’s D, hawkeyes55’s S, SnowflakeVT’s S, MomOf3Stars’ D, dwhite’s S, Partyoffour’s D
8/24 mimk6’s S, MommyMommy’s D, IJustDrive’s D, The3bears’ D, tozubri’s D, tozubri’s S-2, CaliMom3’s D, MidniteMom’s S, laserp’s S, CIEE83’s D
8/25 MathinOKC’s D; Mom0809’s S; pacnwmomof2’s S, seiclan’s S, JenPam’s S, KarGaro’s D, EmptyingNest’s D
8/26 marciemi’s S, kathieh1’s D, disneygals’ D, notakid’s D, MaCappella’s D, Lark123’s D, 2016BarnardMom’s D, JenPam’s D, psychmom’s S
8/27 Glido’s D, maidenMom’s D, student4ever’s S, talaria’s D
8/28 rerunagain’s S, chemusic’s S
8/29 downtoearth’s D, megan12’s S, tozubri’s S-1, bhmamacita’s D
8/30 Gwen Fairfax’ D, glopop11’s D
8/31 elka67’s S, Swimmomonthego’s S
9/01 jaylynn’s D, saintfan’s D, giterdone’s D, Mary13’s D, MAOnemom’s D</p>

<p>Launching Today: 9/05 absweetmarie’s D, dentmom4’s D, huxleyalum’s S2, amtc’s D</p>

<p>Still to Launch:
9/12 northernwoods S
9/18 Mom2jl’s S, Texaspg D
9/20 SteveC’s S, pcaz’s S, GeminiMom’s D1
9/23 UChiMom’s D</p>

<p>1012mom’s D - Tufts University
2016BarnardMom’s D - Barnard College
5boys’ S - St. Lawrence University
911C2S - Bucknell University
absweetmarie’s D - Kalamazoo College
amtc’s D - Knox College
Angry Dad’s D - U of Chicago
annasdad’s D - Truman State University
AnotherFSUdad’s D - U of Alabama Honors College
bbarty - Macalester
BeeZeeMom’s S - U of California at San Diego
bhmamacita’s D - Wesleyan University
BluePoodle’s D - Case Western Reserve University
BobWallace’s D - Agnes Scott College
Bubmom’s D - American University
Bucasmom’s S - U of Connecticut
Buttercup1735’s D - Pepperdine
Cal1983’s S - William & Mary
CaliMom3’s D - Georgetown University
CalmlyiChaotic’s D - Sewanee, The University of the South
Chardo’s S - U of Alabama
cheekymonkey’s S - Tufts
chemusic’s S - Vassar College
Chrissyblu’s D - UC Berkeley
CIEE83’s D - Yale
cindymoose’s Twin A - MIT
collconf01’s D - Kenyon College
college<em>query’s S - Bowdoin College
commasplice’s S - Columbia University
Cortana431 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
CPUscientist3000 - Harvard
Creekland’s S - U of Rochester
DctMom73’s D - Oklahoma State University
Debbie7452’s D - Texas A&M
dentmom4’s D - Kalamazoo College
disneygals’ D - Adelphi
downtoearth’s D - Northeastern
dwhite’s D - Wake Forest
Elka67’s S - Rutgers
ELKyes’ S - College of Charleston Honors
EmptyingNest’s D - Kenyon
ENsMom’s D - McGill University
Everythingbut’s S - Lafayette
eyeamamom’s S - U of Rochester
familyof3boys’ S - Hiram
fiddlinmom’s S - College of Wooster
forthree’s D - Case Western
fourkidsmom’s D - NYU Tisch
fredricksdottir’s S - U of Chicago
gaelicbred’s D - Kenyon
GeminiMom’s D1 - Northwestern
GeminiMom’s D2 - Cornell
geogirl1’s S - U of Miami
giterdone’s D - U of St Thomas
Glido’s D – Wellesley
glopop11’s D – Landmark College
GoIrish2013’s S - Indiana U
Gourmetmom’s S - Harvard
gradygrad’s D - NYU
Gwen Fairfax’s D - The Hartt School (@ Univ of Hartford)
hawkeyes55’s S - Temple University
Highbury’s D - U of Chicago
hookedondwd S - Rochester Institute of Technology
hsmom2dncrs’ S - U of Notre Dame
hutch14’s D - Carleton
HuxleyAlum’s S1 - Rose-Hulman
HuxleyAlum’s S2 - Knox College
IJustDrive’s D - Yale University
Illyria’s D - St. Mary’s College of MD
intouch1520’s D - Syracuse University
irishmary203’s D - U of Notre Dame
Itsthatime’s S - Columbia University
jackief’s D - Case Western Reserve University
jasper44’s D - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jaylynn’s D - University of San Diego
JenPam’s D - U of Maryland
JenPam’s S - U of Maryland
JGCMom’s S - U of Central Florida
jmnva06’s D - Beloit
jupiter1’s S - U of Chicago
Kandjad’s D - U of Alabama
KareninCA’s D - Lewis and Clark
KarGaro’s D - Towson University
kathieh1’s D – Pomona
katie93mom’s D – Southern Methodist University
kc1214mom’s D - Syracuse
Kleibo’s S - Carnegie Mellon
kttmom’s S - William & Mary
Lakemom’s S - University of Rochester
Lark123’s D - Pomona
laserp’s S - Georgetown
lilmom’s D - Morehead State
lillypod’s S - Amherst
linnylu’s D - U of Alabama
lisabees’ S - Oberlin
lovemykids2’s S - U of Alabama
MaCappella’s D - Amherst
maidenMom’s D - Wellesley
MAOnemom’s D - Princeton
marciemi’s S - MIT
Mary13’s D - U of St Thomas
MASSMOM1’s D - Purdue
mathinokc’s D - Olin
megan12’s S - Haverford
MemphisGuy’s S - U of Alabama
mequonmom’s D - Rollins College
MeteorMom’s S - Univ of Miami
MidniteMom’s S - Yale
MidwestMom2Kids</em>’ S - U of Mississippi
mihcal1’s D - UC Berkeley
mimk6’s S - Yale
Missread’s D - U of Alabama
MizzBee’s S - Wabash
Mom0809’s S - Sewanee, The University of the South
Mom2jl’s S - Stanford
Mom2M’s D - USC
Mom60’s D - UC Davis
MomfromTN’s D – Pitzer College
MommyMommy’s D - U of Vermont
momof2inma’s S – Tufts
MomOf3Stars’ D – The University of the Arts
Momsie’s D - NYU Florence
momsings’ S - Chapman University
mother<em>of</em>perl’s T1 - Yale
mother<em>of</em>perl’s T2 - MIT
mspearl’s D - Ohio State
Mutti2012’s S - U of Chicago
NDSmom’s S - U of Alabama
nearandfar’s S - University of Notre Dame
nervousnellie1’s S - Ohio State
newtothismom’s D - Bryant University
NJMom23s’s S - Cornell
nly2012’s S - Lewis and Clark
northernwoods’ S - Northwestern
notakid’s D - Barnard
NWMom2’s D - Case Western Reserve University
ohiobassmom’s S - Capital University (conservatory of music)
ohksaj04’s D - Denison
oldfort’s D - Cornell
pacnwmomof2’s S - Colorado College
pamayawaa’s D - WUSTL
partyoffour’s D1 - Denison
pathways D - Umass Lowell
pcaz’ S - Northwestern Univ
performersmom’s D - Yale
pghmomof2’s S - University of Oklahoma
PinotNoir’s S - U of Rochester
PNWedwonk’s S - U of Rochester
PRJ’s D - NYU
Proudmama3’s S - U of Alabama
psychmom’s S - NYU
Psychmomma’s D - Southern Illinois University
pullinghair’s D - Duke
rayrick’s D - Olin
ready2bdone’s D - Dartmouth College
ReneeD7’s D - Tulane
rerunagain’s S - Swarthmore
rescue23’s D - Willamette University
rushedmom’s D - Texas A&M
S2012d2017’s S - Davidson
Sactonative’s S - U of Alabama
saintfan’s D - St Olaf
sbjdorlo’s S - MIT
seiclan’s S - Emory
sewhappy’s D - Princeton
shootingsilver - U of Chicago
showmom858’s D - FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)
skibum4’s S - MIT
Sniner D - U of Alabama
Snowdog’s D - USC
SnowflakeVT’s S - St. Lawrence U
SoClose’s S - Bryant University
soh2000’s D - UNC - Chapel Hill
solat10’s D - U of Alabama
StantonMom’s S - Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts (Film School)
SteveC’s S - Northwestern University
stressed56’s D - College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
student4ever’s S - Harvard
sujormik’s D - Northeastern University
sunmachine’s S2 - Willamette
Sunshinestatemom’s D - Florida State University
Swimmomonthego’s S - Loyola University, Maryland
talaria’s D - Univ of Pennsylvania
Tebow1’s D - Univ of Notre Dame
Texaspg’s D - Stanford
The3bears’ D - Yale
TNVandymom’s S - Vanderbilt
tozubri’s D - Franklin & Marshall
tozubri’s S1 - RIT
tozubri’s S2 - U of New Hampshire
UChiMom’s D - University of Chicago
vlines’ S - U of Alabama
WalkingTessie’s D - Syracuse University
wdaveo’s S - U of Alabama
weatherga’s D - U of Georgia
Woody35’s D - Earlham College
xxjcat’s - U of Alabama
Yalemom16’s S - Yale
ypcccu’s S - Princeton</p>

<p>COLLEGES ATTENDING:</p>

<p>Adelphi - disneygals’ D
Agnes Scott College - BobWallace’s D
American University - bubmom’s D
Amherst - MaCappella’s D, lillypod’s S
Barnard - notakid’s D, 2016BarnardMom’s D
Beloit - jmnva06’s D
Bowdoin - college<em>query’s S
Bryant University - newtothismom’s D, SoClose’s S
Bucknell - 911C2S
Capital University (conservatory of music) - ohiobassmom’s S
Carleton - hutch14’s D
Carnegie Mellon - Kleibo’s S
Case Western Reserve University - BluePoodle’s D, forthree’s D, jackief’s D, NWMom2’s D
Chapman University- momsings’ S
College of Charleston Honors - ELKyes’ S
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) - stressed56’s D
College of Wooster - fiddlinmom’s S
Colorado College - pacnwmomof2’s S
Columbia University - commasplice’s S, Itsthatime’s S
Cornell - GeminiMom’s D2, NJMom23’s S, oldfort’s D
Dartmouth College - ready2bdone’s D
Davidson - S2012d2017’s S
Denison - ohksaj04’s D, partyoffour’s D1
Duke - pullinghair’s D
Earlham College - Woody35’s D
Emory - seiclan’s S
FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) - showmom858’s D
Florida State University - Sunshinestatemom’s D
Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts (Film School) - StantonMom’s S
Franklin & Marshall - tozubri’s D
Georgetown University - CaliMom3’s D, laserp’s S
Hartt School, The (@ Univ of Hartford) - Gwen Fairfax’ D
Harvard - CPUscientist3000, student4ever’s S, Gourmetmom’s S
Haverford - Megan12’s S
Hiram - familyof3boys’ S
Indiana U - GoIrish2013’s S
Kalamazoo College - absweetmarie’s D, dentmom4’s D
Kenyon - collconf01’s D, gaelicbred’s D, EmptyingNest’s D
Knox - amtc’s D, HuxleyAlum’s S2
Lafayette - Everythingbut’s S
Landmark College - glopop11’s D
Lewis and Clark - KareninCA’s D, nly2012’s S
Loyola University, Maryland - Swimmomonthego’s S
Macalester - bbarty
McGill University - ENsMom’s D
MIT - cindymoose’s Twin A, mother</em>of<em>perl’s T2, sbjdorlo’s S, skibum4’s S, marciemi’s S
Morehead State - lilmom’s D
Northeastern - downtoearth’s D, sujormik’s D
Northwestern - GeminiMom’s D1, northernwoods’ S, SteveC’s S, pcaz’ S
NYU - fourkidsmom’s D, gradygrad’s D, PRJ’s D, psychmom’s S
NYU Florence - Momsie’s D
Oberlin - lisabees’s S
Ohio State - mspearl’s D, nervousnellie1’s S
Oklahoma State University - DctMom73’s D
Olin - mathinokc’s D, rayrick’s D
Pepperdine - Buttercup1735’s D
Pitzer College - MomfromTN’s D
Pomona - kathieh1’s D, Lark123’s D
Princeton - ypcccu’s S, MAOnemom’s D, Sewhappy’s D
Purdue - MASSMOM1’s D
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Cortana431, jasper44’s D
Rochester Institute of Technology - hookedondwd’s S, tozubri’s S1
Rollins College - mequonmom’s D
Rose-Hulman - HuxleyAlum’s S1
Rutgers - Elka67’s S1
Sewanee, The University of the South - CalmlyiChaotic’s D, Mom0809’s S
Southern Illinois University - Psychmomma’s D
Southern Methodist University - katie93mom’s D
St. Lawrence University - 5boys’ S, SnowflakeVT’s S
St. Mary’s College of MD - Illyria’s D
St. Olaf - saintfan’s D
Stanford - Texaspg’s D, Mom2jl’s S
Swarthmore - rerunagain’s S
Syracuse University - intouch1520’s D, kc1214mom’s
D, WalkingTessie’s D
Temple University - hawkeyes55’s S
Texas A&M - Debbie7452’s D, rushedmom’s D
Towson University - KarGaro’s D
Truman State University - annasdad’s D
Tufts University - 1012mom’s D, momof2inma’s S, cheekymonkey’s S
Tulane - ReneeD7’s D
U of Alabama - Chardo’s S, Kandjad’s D, linnylu’s D, lovemykids2’s S, MemphisGuy’s S, Missread’s D, NDSmom’s S, Proudmama3’s S, Sactonative’s S, Sniner’s D, solat10’s D, vlines’ S, wdaveo’s S, xxjcat, AnotherFSUdad’s D
U of California at Berkeley - Chrissyblu’s D, mihcal1’s D
U of California at Davis - Mom60’s D
U of California at San Diego - BeeZeeMom’s S
U of Central Florida - JGCMom’s S
U of Chicago - Angry Dad’s D, fredricksdottir’s S, Highbury’s D, jupiter1’s S, Mutti2012’s S, shootingsilver, UChiMom’s D
U of Connecticut - Bucasmom’s S
U of Georgia - weatherga’s D
U of Maryland - JenPam’s D, JenPam’s S
U of Massachusetts (Lowell) - pathways’ D
U of Miami - geogirl1’s S, MeteorMom’s S
U of Mississippi - MidwestMom2Kids</em> S
U of New Hampshire - tozubri’s S2
U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: soh2000’s D
U of Notre Dame - hsmom2dncrs’ S, Tebow1’s D, nearandfar’s S, irishmary203’s D
U of Oklahoma - pghmomof2’s S
U of Pennsylvania - talaria’s D
U of Rochester - Creekland’s S, eyeamamom’s S, PinotNoir’s S, PNWedwonk’s S, Lakemom’s S
U of San Diego - Jaylynn’s D
U of St Thomas - giterdone D, Mary13’s D
U of the Arts, The – MomOf3Stars’ D
U of Vermont - MommyMommy’s D
USC - Mom2M’s D, Snowdog’s D
Vanderbilt - TNVandymom’s S
Vassar - chemusic’s S
Wabash - MizzBee’s S
Wake Forest - dwhite’s D
Wellesley - Glido’s D, maidenMom’s D
Wesleyan - bhmamacita’s D
Willamette University - rescue23’s D, sunmachine’s S2
William & Mary - Cal1983’s S, kttmom’s S
WUSTL - pamayawaa’s D
Yale - IJustDrive’s D, mimk6’s S, mother<em>of</em>perl’s T1, performersmom’s D, The3bears’ D, Yalemom16’s S, MidniteMom’s S, CIEE83’s D</p>

<p>chemusic and for anyone else. You can text someone from your emailer. Just google how to do it and it will show you what to type after the cell phone number. We have ATT so you type in the phone number then @txt.att.net.</p>

<p>I have one of those ancient cell phones too so I email text all the time. Since I work on line it is much easier.</p>

<p>DS called yesterday just to chat with DH and I. He is so happy! Everything seems to working out well. Classes are a challenge, but not too difficult, friends are great, fun is great, everything is great. He signed up to take an advanced open water dive class and is very excited! Says Google calandar is a life saver, everything school and social related goes on the calendar. DH and I were just beaming after talking with him. So happy for him!!</p>

<p>So happy to hear all the good news and contact from the kiddies! We will all make it through!</p>

<p>Someone here had a suggestion, maybe it was another thread - about just texting a picture of something at home - like a pet. So I took a pic of his cat and sent it to him and we chatted a couple of times about the fat lazy cat laying on the couch cushion all day. He’s worried the cat is getting fat because he misses him, I told him middle age just causes a little fluffiness around the edges.</p>

<p>As much as I want to pepper him with questions and suggestions, I want to make sure our contact isn’t always like that and we can just say hi.</p>

<p>It’s like a cartoon - what we say vs what we mean - cat’s laying around as usual - what i mean is - how are you, are you eating well, sleeping, do you have nice friends, how are classes, are you keeping up, are you happy?</p>

<p>We emailed DS three times this weekend, all with just pictures; Saturday was the dog after she had been swimming, and Sunday was from the state fair, a cow, and a chicken. He sent us back a picture from his Iphone but it overwhelmed our archaic little Tracfones, so we still don’t know what his response was!</p>

<p>Hard to believe that S is next up on the launching list, a week from today. </p>

<p>I think he is really ready to get started and was disappointed to hear that classes don’t start until the 27th. That doesn’t mean that he is paying much attention to the messages from the school. I had read the University email yesterday that talked about orientation activities and mentioned to him that they could attend the football game and then would be taken to a big amusement park that evening. He wondered how I had heard about that :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Any important things that your kids forgot? I’d love to learn from your experience.</p>

<p>Northernwoods- if you didn’t already, put on your list a basic sewing kit (needle and thread) and a reliable flashlight. Also, extra batteries for anything they have (flashlight, calculator, toothbrush, alarm clock, etc).</p>

<p>ReneeD7 - Was thinking about you and your D when I saw news today about the clean up after Hurricane Isaac. Have things at her school begun to return to normal? Hoping that she and all the other students are doing fine. Hopefully, they will be able to look back on this as a time of bonding and making it through together.</p>

<p>Things forgotten or more popular than I would have thought:</p>

<p>Brita water bottles.
Sunglasses.
Tide pods.
Extra chair - he has one from bed, bath & beyond and he says it is the bomb.</p>

<p>Regarding things forgotten…
After he’s all packed up and everything’s in the car (or boxes & suitcases for flight/shipping) do a final walk-through the house and look to see whether there’s any of his stuff in odd corners. I found D’s favorite sweatshirt stuffed under a couch pillow, a cellphone charger, and a tube of posters. My D’s best friend forgot her favorite quilt and the book she was in the middle of reading, both left on her bed. </p>

<p>It’s not a big deal to mail items later, but it’s better to just catch the omissions before your student departs.</p>

<p>eyemamom, what kind of chair is it? I don’t know yet how big my son’s room will be, but an extra chair sounds like a great idea.</p>

<p>my son needed two packages of sticky tak for all his posters (oh and more posters - he has a lot of wall space)
under bed storage
a screw driver (both flat and philips head)
case of water (it gets hot while moving and unpacking)
several of those shirts for working out (if your child goes to the gym) - laundry does not get done everyday
clip light for the bed (so you don’t have to get out of bed to turn off the overhead)</p>

<p>Screwdrivers and a hammer. Those were definitely the things needed for move-in that we didn’t have.</p>

<p>Me too … on cloud nine (too early for G&T!) after a chatty newsy email from D: </p>

<ul>
<li>She never received the cookies I sent last week (is happy that I’m sending more).<br></li>
<li>She doesn’t need book covers (which I’d offered to send) because all her books are paperback. </li>
<li>She is auditioning for chamber music (wish her luck) but isn’t sure she wants to commit the time.<br></li>
<li>Says she wants to keep her cello (I’d offered to come fetch it home) even if she doesn’t end up doing chamber music (“b/c its nice to practice sometimes and destress.”)<br></li>
<li>She’ll try to call Gma (who’s having minor surgery today).</li>
</ul>

<p>She says:</p>

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<p>I remember feeling just exactly like that my freshman year of college. Sometimes the apple falls near the tree.</p>

<p>She goes on to list her favorite classes/teachers and what she likes about them. Then says:</p>

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<p>BTW, time stamp on the email was just before midnight, and she refers to having to write a paper for PE(!), due the next day(!!!)</p>

<p>Yup, the apple falls very near the tree.</p>

<p>My D needed her own copy of the health insurance card and we put off asking for additional cards until too close to move – we had to send it to her later.</p>

<p>I’ll second the suggestion of a walk-through. My daughter left her laundry bag on the floor in the hallway to her bedroom. </p>

<p>We also did the banking stuff right before she went to school, so she didn’t have her permanent debit card before she went, just a temporary one. (Before, she had a savings account with an ATM card, but I wanted her to have a checking account with a debit card.) If you have time, it’s nice to have those odds and ends tied up in advance.</p>

<p>My daughter created packing lists (hooray for organization!), but deleted items from the electronic list (instead of highlighting them or putting a mark beside the item) as they were packed. That meant that there was no easy way to look over the whole list and check for missing items (like, say, pencils).</p>

<p>We remembered to send stamps and to buy birthday cards for friends and family members with upcoming birthdays. However, she forgot to take some addresses with her.</p>

<p>Mom2jl – Ikea has some very inexpensive [url=&lt;a href=“Products - IKEA”&gt;Products - IKEA]chairs[/url</a>] that fold flat and take up hardly any space at all.</p>

<p>Here is the chair: [Club</a> Chair with Pocket - Blue Microsuede - Bed Bath & Beyond](<a href=“http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=40080451]Club”>http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=40080451)</p>

<p>If links aren’t allowed go to bb&b and look up club chair with pocket. S put his desk chair up on his dresser and uses that instead. It also can fold up and slide under the bed if they want to pull it out when there is company.</p>