<p>It is my sixth day with family and extended family in Lake Tahoe. We are having a great time and I love reading all the dorm mountain/dorm volcano move-in stories. Move-in for DS is a week from today. Good luck to today’s movers!!</p>
<p>Um, D flies out tomorrow morning and we will drive to meet her on Wed. Problem is that she has managed to pack for her flight and 3 days of pre-o. She also has stuff for us to bring in the car. However we move to the new condo on the 31st and her room is not packed for the real move! Guess more work for me to pick up her slack…</p>
<p>D convinced little brother to come along so hopefully everything fits in the van! I think we will all be holding stuff on our laps! Mountain not complete here yet, but coming together. Six more days.</p>
<p>Ds is off! And apparently he is on some SW flight that has free wifi and Dish TV??? Lucky him. I hope we get the same deal we we fly up next week.</p>
<p>I teared up at one point, but I don’t think anyone saw. I’ve been telling myself his leaving today is no big deal because I’ll see him next week, but I know that if I let myself I could easily be a bawling mess.</p>
<p>My son just made his first phone call home since Tuesday 
He’s on his way to the planetarium in Chicago with his summer bridge group. Lots of talking and laughing in the background. It was hard to keep his attention. It was a wonderful 3 minutes.</p>
<p>Nothing better than hearing them happy. I love your post, ree!!! 
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<p>Mine launches in a week. I’ve already told him if he doesn’t call once a week or send a quick text every few days he’ll arrive back to his dorm some afternoon to find me sitting on his bed telling his roommate funny stories about when he was a little boy. That quickly produced a promise to stay in touch!</p>
<p>Hi everyone! Just checking in to see how everyone is doing with packing, moving, recuperating… I officially am now an empty nester. D launched yesterday. Trying to fit everything into the dorm room was challenging… and I had to leave D with an awful lot to finish on her own… As the mom, I wanted to stay all weekend and help her with everything! But she needs to make her space her own, and feel like she is taking control.</p>
<p>I won’t lie - empty nesting as a single parent is a challenge. The house is just way too quiet. I think I need a dog just so I have someone to talk to!</p>
<p>Hugs to everyone who is launching this weekend. Reading your posts is making all of this very real…</p>
<p>We leave on Thursday. DS is spending a lot of time with gf this weekend as she takes off at the beginning of the week…after that, he’s all mine! :)</p>
<p>He is packing on his own!! Took the pre orientation packing list up and is gathering everything on his own!</p>
<p>Asked about bringing dressy clothes to school and a refresher on doing laundry. </p>
<p>Who is this kid??</p>
<p>Dorm mountain was successfully transported from our dining room to UF today! We unpacked some stuff and made the bed. Then took DS for a late lunch before dropping him back at the dorm so we could start the drive home. I had my sunglasses on just in case I welled up but I didn’t need them! I just felt myself smiling with pride and excitement! He texted me during our drive to update me on his unpacking progress and mentioned how excited he was and then thanked us for our support! Yay:)</p>
<p>The townies in Decorah were particularly hateful of black students and minorities in general. As a person of color, who had the misfortune to attend and graduate from Luther, the town of Decorah wasn’t very ‘charming’. If you like this sort of school (where students don’t have to mix with negroes or other colored folk,) I guess that speaks volumes about the kind of person you are, and the type of people your children are.<br>
Yes, of course white people have had wonderful experiences attending Luther and enjoying the ‘charm’ of Decorah. Blacks and Asians, not so much. Rather, I suspect many of us have regretted our decision to attend a college populated with entitled bigots. I’ve never attended a reunion and will never set foot on that campus again.
So if you’re white, by all means send your kids to Luther, they’ll love it. If you’re a minority, run in the opposite direction and avoid Luther, you’ll regret your decision to attend.</p>
<p>^Hey Wescoastfam! Did you mean to post that on this thread? I don’t remember anybody mentioning sending anyone to Luther this year (and it’s too late now to apply anywhere for 2013). I could have missed something, of course, but I have a sense you meant to post this on a different thread.</p>
<p>DS texted he has rearranged his schedule and added classes he is now up to 18 credits… I’m now trying to convince him to drop a class…Ugh.</p>
<p>D packed her room for the move to our new condo! Will wonders never cease…</p>
<p>Surf City - Congratulations! I have a son like that, and he has LOOKED at the list, but not actually gone about the house collecting items to pack, so you are a step ahead! And I’m working on the full laundry tutorial. In the end, I think it would be great to see boys room pics vs girls room pics!</p>
<p>We still have 2 weeks before we drop D’13 off at college. Things are slowly coming together. D’s temporary full time job just ended this week so she will have more time to prepare now. As soon as we get back home from dropping her off the 2 younger kids start school.</p>
<p>@MichiganGeorgia. If it helps advisers at D’s school suggested they sign up for a full load so they had room to drop a class during drop/add period. That way if they run into a tough class or professor, they can get out of it without jeopardizing the minimum credits needed to be full time. </p>
<p>I’m leaving D at school today. Had 4 days to say goodbye and hardly saw her. Is it weird I didn’t cry…I was angry. Still excited for this new chapter in her life and hope my mood changes during this 7 hour drive back.</p>
<p>Barack Obama is coming to SUNY Buffalo on Freshmen move-in day. I don’t know how we will ever get ds moved in. The school said move-in will go on as planned. Wish us luck this Thursday.</p>
<p>@Oracoj58 - Wow, when he came here they shut down part of the highway for him. I hope it doesn’t cause you any problems. </p>
<p>@Amazhon - Yes I’m hoping he drops a class after he goes to all the classes once. He starts tomorrow and has to drop classes by Friday at 4:00 pm. Otherwise he gets a “W”…</p>