Parents of the HS Class of 2012 - Original

<p>I would pay to see that, Mommy, Mommy. You know how I love your dog–Goose, the prettiest Springer on the planet. (I think a Springer is my next dog.) </p>

<p>Glido, happy graduation day!!! Can’t wait to see photos. </p>

<p>My girl’s big sissy (my stepdaughter with my ex…who is 30 and dare I announce it…preggers! I’ll get a baby to fill my empty nest come October, her 3rd wedding anniversary) is taking her for alterations to her prom dress–the hem needs to come up a bit and it needs a few extra tucks so the sleeves don’t fall off her skinny shoulders. </p>

<p>Meanwhile, I’m heading to the International Beer Fest today. The boys are in Columbus for a lax tourney all weekend.</p>

<p>Good Morning Wackaloons! </p>

<p>I decided last night that I was not content to just skip Mother’s Day so we are going out to breakfast this morning, once he gets up.</p>

<p>Happy Graduation Day, Gildo!</p>

<p>Hoping things are ok with the dogs…our poodle with get into any plastic bag around, and can get D’s backpack open. Fortunately, it tends to be snacks that she finds…and she’s a standard poodle, so she weighs about 50lbs. The poodle is spoiled rotten. The D is just spoiled. You might try storing pills in old 35mm film canisters, our poodle can’t get those open. I’d prefer D to not leave advil in her backpack, but since that’s not going to happen, the film canisters work.</p>

<p>D is a couple of steps beyond exhausted. She thought the History HL papers went well yesterday, took a break for a couple of hours, then started prep for the third History paper on Monday morning. And, of course, multiple Bio tests Tues, Wed, and then the Bio HL papers Thursday and Friday. At this point, she’s just hanging on until the end. The muliple tests have eliminated all love for Bio (once a favorite subject).<br>
She’ll have a month of school left after testing is complete. Mostly fun, in class, extra credit type assignments, a week of Senior Activities and then Graduation.</p>

<p>Forgot, Good luck to chrissyblu’s D on the Cal Scholarship!</p>

<p>Glido, enjoy the day, tears and all!</p>

<p>Hope all the pets are ok…I was up early with ours, went back to bed, and got up to find her snoozing on the couch she knows she’s not supposed to be on. :-)</p>

<p>Operation Cleaning for Graduation Party today - anyone joining me??</p>

<p>Good luck with the cleaning, PghMomof2. I was in that mode yesterday (even took the afternoon off work). Chorus banquet for us today.</p>

<p>Definitely seeing the stress level go up on all the seniors. Not really my S - he and I have talked about the “burning bridges” attitude and what a shame it is. I have told him that he should enjoy these last weeks with his friends he has had for four years and that some of my high school friends are still some of my good friends today (although I went to high school overseas.) S is a non-phone person, neither texting or talking interest him. But there was some drama going on with friends where he felt the need to step outside to take a couple of
phone calls! This never happens! He sat on the step for half an hour. When he came in he assured me that the person was in a better spot after the talk. He would not tell me who it was -he knows how nosey I am!</p>

<p>Then last night he went to see some of his friends bands (the garage kind…)play at his brothers high school (not his…) and he came in the house all a twitter! Met some girl and wanted to know if 15 (a frosh) was too young for him (18.) I said it really depends. They
plan on having coffee next weekend. I just told him if you plan on seeing her again after that you might want to meet her parents sooner rather than later as she is on the young side!</p>

<p>Wow - you all have been busy! </p>

<p>I’ll have to admit, for me, graduation and college concerns are taking a backseat to family health concerns and helping in laws move amidst health concerns. </p>

<p>Wow, glido, are you our first? I’ll be picturing you sitting with all the other parents, holding back tears and watching your S walk across the stage to get his diploma! sniff!</p>

<p>S1 is home for just 2 1/2 weeks before heading back to school to do research for the summer. It’s really nice to have him home. :)</p>

<p>Found out yesterday that S’12 is getting another $2,000 per year for being NMF, stacked on top of his current scholarship. Yay!</p>

<p>Dragged myself to the computer to read the edit comments. Cracking up.</p>

<p>Happy Graduation Day Glido!</p>

<p>Glad the accident wasn’t worse, Disney.</p>

<p>Thinking about you, mspearl. Relieve to see you back here.</p>

<p>Hope all the sick pups are ok.</p>

<p>S is studying for IB History for going to The Avengers with friends?</p>

<p>Hoping the doggies are fine today. My lab will eat anything as well, weatherga. I mean anything. His favorite though is cat food.</p>

<p>My girl saw The Avengers last night with her friends… went to the 5:30 show then home to study for next week’s APs. I’m enjoying seeing all the last day of school photos she was tagged in on FB. </p>

<p>Hooray for new scholarships and honors!</p>

<p>I’m so happy to be having our grad party at the pavilion at my ex’s neighborhood lake. No special housework…though my aunt and one other out of town guest will be staying with me that weekend. Guess I have to freshen up the guest room.</p>

<p>Glido - Congratulations to your D!</p>

<p>My D has exactly the same IB exam schedule as Mom2M. Yesterday’s was long, I heard. I’m not sure how much studying will happen for Monday’s exam. She is also fried on Biology by now. </p>

<p>D’s ambivalence re graduation and leaving are manifesting by being fine and super social at school as usual and an uptick in fearfulness at home. She swears she heard something in the middle of the night the other night and thinks something’s wrong with our house a la “Paranormal Activitiy”. Argh. I’m trying to listen to her lovingly and not laugh in her face. It’s hard. </p>

<p>Congrats Glido! Our first grad!</p>

<p>Glido – Enjoy graduation day!</p>

<p>PinotNoir – Congrats on the additional scholarship. Thinking of you as you deal with family health issues.</p>

<p>PghMomOf2 – Want to come clean my house when you’re done with yours?</p>

<p>Thinking of you today, Glido! Don’t forget to smile thru the tears, you’ve worked really hard for this day!!!</p>

<p>Mom2M: ditto on HL history - D said “everyone was super freaked out” ahead of time because you had to be prepared to write on anything and everything having to do with the 20th century particularly “cold war and dictators” but you get 2 grouping of multi-part questions and have to choose one or 2 from each group. She described the process of vetting though them to pick the ones that yo know the most completely for all subquestions. In the end she thought it went quite well. They also had HL Physics paper 3 yesterday. Monday is the final history paper the AP Gov and Stats. She announced last night that she’s glad she only had AP Stats on Wednesday because Tuesday is a Glee double episode.</p>

<p>Today is baseball double header, but D and 2 teammates will miss the first game to attend the memorial for the wife of their band director who succumbed to brain cancer this past week. One of the moms will bring them over afterwards. She will throw the 2nd game, so isn’t actually missing any field time. The whole thing is just tragic - they have a daughter who is in middle school I believe, and are all the nicest people.</p>

<p>Good thought for recovery for mspearl, papillons, havanese</p>

<p>S said they were all pleased with HL history yesterday. The DBQ was way easier than they expected. He will have to dig deep for motivation to study for Spanish though. I think it’s not until Thursday and his close friends are either not in IB (and I think they’re done with their APs before then) or else are doing Japanese or Italian.</p>

<p>Re saintfan’s edit: I’d like to see that photo on the cover of Time.</p>

<p>Wish my S would have gotten more scholarships/recognition. He’s an awesome kid and worked hard all through high school…and apparently a 4.4 GPA is not enough to get in the top 10%. He missed it by a smidgen.</p>

<p>p.s. “kitten” should really be in quotes. She is 3-4, I forget, but she is so darn kittenish that we just keep calling her that. She is a little tortoise shell orphan. We had a Great Pyrenees who succumbed to bone cancer. I was planning to get DS a kitten at his birthday 2 months later, but a co-workers boyfriend had adopted this kitten and changed his mind so I brought her home with a bow on the carrier for DS just a week after we lost our dog. She loves to “nurse” on your neck and really does make slurping nursing sounds. This is why DS thinks that she would like her own kangaroo. I told him our house isn’t big enough, so now he wants a wallaby.</p>

<p>Our Pyrenees didn’t normally chew or eat random stuff, but now and then he would slip. If you came home and he was under the dining room table and stayed there you knew he’d eaten something unauthorized. His best were an entire stick of butter (he was tall enough to reach onto the counter just on all 4s) and he also ate a fancy rooster hackle that is used for fly-tying. DH left it packaged up on the credenza and we found only the packaging. Pyrenees are not chewers and not really food based, so it was very rare that he got into trouble. He felt very bad when he did and was apologetic.</p>

<p>House is getting in order. Small group here after prom next weekend. Grad party at home in 3 weeks. Have cleaning lady coming an extra time to keep first floor looking nice. Yard man on call, handy man coming (I am so spoiled…), but my H and I are not DIY’s.</p>

<p>Working on D’s photo album; now on first name basis with Walgreen’s clerk who has my order ready on the counter because I come at “time requested”. Reminder to self: start on D16’s sooner and keep up. Finishing up sophomore year–2 more to go. D12 is happy and likes what she sees. </p>

<p>Happy Graduation, Glido!</p>