<p>Performersmom, yes my son and I will be at Bulldog Days. We spent about an hour last night going through the forty pages and planning our strategy. He typed up a document with events, places and times. Yale is definitely in the running and probably has the edge right now but who knows what next week will bring? I’m excited to be going there again.</p>
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<p>I just caught up on this thread - it really does move to quickly for me most days - coupled with spending last night in the ER with youngest (second seizure type of episode of his life - and a new medical aspect of “what’s going on” in ours).</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks to all for the welcome and Lisbees (nice to see you too) - ditto the congrats on Oberlin!</p>
<p>Otherwise, miles?</p>
<p>Oldest is 650 miles south.</p>
<p>Middle will be 300 miles north.</p>
<p>Youngest??? We’ll know in 2 years (assuming the medical stuff works itself out). My guess is significant miles south or west since he wants tropical botany at this point.</p>
<p>We don’t particularly want ours staying close to home - well - we do (loving family wise), but we think it’s good for them to get away from home so encourage looking further away.</p>
<p>380 miles. A long drive. No decent flights.</p>
<p>Well, I’m 4th generation within 10 miles of where we live. The “get away” prospect has been bred out of us. 
Although we’ve been fortunate to travel the world - so the kids aren’t “sheltered” by any means. Significant time in SE Asia and Europe as well as having criss crossed the country. Not saying we’ve experienced anything long enough to form an opinion.</p>
<p>When I went off to school, I was 60 miles away - might as well have been 600.</p>
<p>Just checked google maps for shortest driving distance; S will be 1650 miles. D is a mere 1508 miles away next fall; right now she’s doing study abroad and is 4387.5 miles away!</p>
<p>Creekland - I hope things go well with your youngest. Sounds scary!</p>
<p>OK woody, to use your imagery, the porcine entities are aloft! D has purchased a prom dress!</p>
<p>mimk, glad to hear you are going, as well!
Did your D do BDD?
If so, was it was extensive?? There are things to do from 8am to 1am for 2 days and from 8 am to 4pm the 3rd day, and most sessions overlap with others- it is a planners’ delight, a good amuse-bouche for the Blue Book! Your son seems tailored to fit Yale with his intense organizational drive!!!
What sorts of things are “musts” for your S?
My D has not had a much time to review it all (and I am not there to prod here LOL)- she has many tests and papers right now. It will be interesting to see what she picks out to explore…</p>
<p>p.s. What RC was your D in???</p>
<p>Describe dress, please, saintfan. My D got hers with no sturm und drang. Left home at 9 a.m. last Saturday, came home three hours later with something pretty and greenish to go with the ridiculously gorgeous emerald earrings my BF/her stepfather-equivalent got her for Christmas last year. Needs shoes. No muss and fuss with this one.</p>
<p>DS will be 112 miles away.</p>
<p>With the schools still on the table, S will be between 965 and 1430 miles away. The closest school he applied to is 222 miles away. You really can’t get anywhere from here without driving 100 miles. No, really, that’s our closest district football game.</p>
<p>giterdone - no offense intended on the distance aspect. I’m a firm believer in “to each their own.” However, if my guys were to go within 10 miles of where we live they wouldn’t even have community college as an option. 
We live more rural. Within 60 miles they’d have a few since we live in PA and one can’t travel too far without seeing a college. Middle did look at one an hour away, and liked it, but we scrapped it when they didn’t offer merit aid.</p>
<p>PN - yeah, last night wasn’t one of my more fun memorable moments. I feel a bit better now knowing whatever it is isn’t supposed to be life threatening. I just wish we had answers instead of just a dr appt next Friday - which is supposed to lead to another dr appt down the road, etc. He’s had two seizure-like episodes - both away from home without us - one in France - in 8 days and has never had them before. A CAT scan came up negative as did all bloodwork and urine, so now we wait for more intensive looks. He, of course, is wondering what the big deal is and is rather annoyed (to put it politely) that he can’t drive.</p>
<p>Depending on route-- D is going to between 790 and 833 miles away (it all depends on how much I hate driving through Breezewood, PA)</p>
<p>My D is hardcore no muss and fuss. Insists she just wants to wear the exact same thing she wore last year - shoes jewlery and all.</p>
<p>Absweetmarie, maybe we’re like the couple from Illinois and we share a daughter but don’t realize it. D’s dress is also green - a deep, emerald/mallard green in a cocktail length sort of stretch taffeta type fabric. It is short and looks tight - has horizontal seeming and the bodice has a sort of sweetheart neckline with about 1.5 in straps. It has seeming on the top that sort of corset style - a little edgy but not over the top. She saw one pretty good dress at the Rack, she said, but didn’t get it and they continued on to the mall. She found it right off at Macy’s ($39 sale rack!). She didn’t look any further once she found it, she said. She doesn’t have my must see all options streak. It is a great dress - much better than any I found. I can’t wait to see it on. She shopped with 2 friends who had dresses, so it was all about her with some good advice. We will go to DSW Sunday to look for shoes.</p>
<p>DD will be 65 miles away. S1 attended same college and we never saw him. Our rule is you have to stay on campus the first month to make friends, find a group, and not come home to hang out with HS friends still in town. Tough for him at first, but we were available to come down and take him out for a meal if needed. I think he showed up once a semester outside of breaks/holidays.</p>
<p>288 miles or 1124 miles…but next year, 4316 miles (at least)!</p>
<p>Creekland, if the neuro workup is negative, you might want to have him see a cardiologist for peace of mind. Sometimes, something like that could be an irregular heart beat. Just my 2 cents. Hope everything turns out ok.</p>
<p>D is wearing the same dress for Prom that she wore to a winter formal two years ago. It’s short and fluffy with a fitted bodice - very pretty and sparkly. She see’s no point in getting something new when she has something she’s only worn once or twice that is still great. Also - her bf is in college two thousand miles away, so she’ll be going with friends not a date, but is perfectly content. </p>
<p>She just texted me from Ashland OR where she’s with her theater class on a trip this weekend to say she just bought a red cowboy hat! Can’t wait to see that. I’m driving there tomorrow to pick her up so she’ll be back Saturday in time for her dance show dress rehearsal. I’ll miss the taxi shift next year… we’ve had a lot of road trips.</p>
<p>Creekland - I agree with Sunshine - I’d want to make sure to check everything possible out… scary. Sometimes though, things really end up being unexplained. 
Hope this isn’t one of those times, but glad it’s so far so good on the tests you’ve done.</p>
<p>Sounds like you win on the dress, saintfan. You certainly can describe one better than I can. D of absweetmarie got one that is very long. Requires hemming, which I cannot do. Macy’s was also involved, but not (so far as I know) a sale. Fabric? Seems sort of flammable. It’s strapless, I now recall, as the purchase of a new brassiere (and therefore a trip to Victoria’s Secret) was also involved. Glad to have been home doing whatever when all this shopping went down. </p>
<p>No boys involved in prom; I have a beautiful late bloomer who just wants to go to the dance to dance. She is going with girlfriends, most of whom are staying in the city overnight so they can go to some kind of con the next day for kids who like Japanese stuff. D is not feeling the Japanese love but she loves her geeky friends. So weird to have a child who is going to prom with girls she’s known since elementary school. I’d gone to nine different schools by the time I graduated from HS.</p>