<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful, supportive moms on this thread! </p>
<p>@itsv - so sorry, it must be heartbreaking. I’ve never even thought about shutting off the water to the house when we left! Perhaps if you’re at the hotel they have a ballroom or conference room where you could have the party?</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - fingers crossed and a little prayer for a fairy tale ending. </p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all the HS Class of 2014 moms!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers on this thread!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day everyone! Hope it is a wonderful day for all of you!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all!!</p>
<p>16 more days until D graduates! It can’t come soon enough for her.</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s day to a group of good hearted,dedicated moms…</p>
<p>s’s graduation is Friday…as we used to say when my kids were babies, the days drag on and the years fly by…</p>
<p>Only 12 more days here, although she will still have a week of college classes after HS graduation, and then her CCC graduation for her AA on the 30th. She’s pretty excited</p>
<p>Happy Mothers Day to a group of mom’s who clearly love their kids!</p>
<p>It was an interesting Mother’s Day. Spent it with D going from urgent care to the ER to the surgery waiting room to a room to home. Makes me wonder, how do you train an 18 year old kid to handle a medical emergency, to even know what a medical emergency is? I swear, my students would run to the ER for a hangnail and take two friends with them. </p>
<p>D and I are making graduation party announcements today. She’s doing the graphic design and we’ll get them printed online. Do you think that if we send them out 20 days before the event that is sufficient time? The other option is to print them ourselves on the home inkjet printer. They wouldn’t be quite as professional looking but we could get them mailed a week earlier…</p>
<p>Staceyneil
Wallmart has 1 hour turnaround option for a minimal fee. That’s what we used when we realized that we were late ordering them. </p>
<p>@2018dad Thanks! I’ll go look into that right now.</p>
<p>@staceyneil I’ve used costco online for invitations that I made. They looked great and were very reasonably priced. Might want to check that out if you are a costco member. </p>
<p>@ordinarylives yikes! about the medical emergency, but glad to hear that things are hopefully under control now. (Appendix? Because your progression sounds a lot like what my DS14 went through a year or two ago with his appendectomy.)</p>
<p>As to how to train them, my older son texts me when he thinks something worrisome is going on and I tell him what to do, pretty much. They will also have access almost certainly to a 24-hour triage nurse line for their school’s medical center, and they can also advise. My son came down with a nasty respiratory illness during his first few days at school. They advised him to go to urgent care to be tested for flu because they had already had confirmed cases (his was not) and either called a cab for him or told him how to do it, and the cab was charged to his student account. (He also left/dropped his phone in the cab on the way home, and managed to sort that out himself.) All this is to say that the health services folks are experienced in dealing with young adults who are not yet experienced in handling their own healthcare needs, and will help them. And your kid will probably still lean on you for advice as well. My son has had some potentially-serious things come up and has learned to handle things. (Luckily no emergency surgery!) I think he purposely texts me instead of googling things, knowing that he will get anxious reading all the horrible possibilities. So I get anxious on his behalf, pare it down, ask the relevant questions and tell him if I think he needs to be seen or not, or to call the nurse line, or suggest that he call his home doctor for advice, etc…</p>
<p>This weekend the six neighborhood families with graduating seniors got together to organize our party. This is a group that has been together since first grade – even though the kids have splintered off into different friend-groups we’re planning to give them a casual barbecue shindig they shouldn’t be too embarrassed to invite their social groups too. We might try to re-enact the first grade bus stop photo.</p>
<p>In other news, to my surprise we got invited to the senior awards ceremony. A couple of weeks ago when many of you were talking about these I assumed my S wasn’t getting anything so that’s why I hadn’t heard about ours. Might be just another recognition for National Merit, but the invite says they can’t tell us in advance.</p>
<p>Also we received the college mugs and the pennant (for the guidance office) so now we have to get those thank you cards written and distribute. Now that we are on the other side of all the AP tests and Mothers Day I think we can actually make some progress on these as well as sending out announcements.</p>
<p>@stacyneil – if you are really short for time and could use a matte photo instead of an actual invite, Costco prints amazing photos in one hour. 4 x 6 is 13 cents and 5 x 7 may be 39 cents each. 5 x 7 make take two hours and you have to allow the hour or two hours from their opening time. My boys help me with simple editing work on CS5 and then convert the file to a jpg when finished so that I can print via Costco. Just a thought. In general, though, I find the quality of their printing to be excellent. I compared a few of the on-line places plus Walgreen’s, CVS and Costco in person, and Costco’s color quality was the most true.</p>
<p>@CT1417 and @Felicita Thank you for the ideas! My D (who is a terrific graphic designer) is designing the invites right now. (We just had a nice walk in the woods to take a photo for the front.) I’m going to order them from Walmart with express shipping - they have a nice thick card stock she prefers to the photo paper and she can put text/images on the back too. With envelopes and shipping included it works out to about 95 cents each. Since we’re only ending out about 30 I think is is alright.</p>
<p>Graduation is finally starting to seem real! </p>
<p>@crowlady - love the idea of college mugs for thank you gifts! I think we’ll steal that idea!</p>