<p>@jrmama496, so sorry for your loss. </p>
<p>@momreads - Nothing worse when you’re already to go and nope - the plane is grounded. Glad you were able to get him there in plenty of time.</p>
<p>@calla1 - Such good news about your son! It makes it easier on us to know they’re happy and comfortable in their environment. </p>
<p>@go2mama - Sounds as if your DH is doing a good job getting her settled. And that’s great that you’ve connected with the roommate’s mom.</p>
<p>Which brings me to a question. Have you all been in contact with your child’s roommates parents? Or does that happen during move in? It sounds like the parents of Spygirl’s roommate will not be involved in move-in day or orientation even though they live 45 minutes from campus. It would be nice to at least touch base. And the roomie has told Spygirl that she’s planning on decorating her side of the room all in black. :0!</p>
<p>RIT has a Facebook page for parents of incoming freshmen and I am so, so fortunate that my daughter’s roommate’s spotted my last name (which, as a single mom, I share with my daughter). She friended me on Facebook and sent me a message telling me who she was. We have corresponded for a couple of months now and easily worked out that they would provide the printer, Keurig pot and Tide pods and I will supply the refrigerator. She grew up in NYC where we live, and they live not too far from where I grew up, and there are other coincidental similarities to our families. The tentative plan is for us to have dinner together on Monday, move-in day is Tuesday.</p>
<p>The girls are Facebook friends and have videochatted a few times but I think the moms have had more contact so far! Obviously that won’t be the case when the girls will be sharing a 10x17 room! But from what I can surmise, it should be a good match.</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine - wow - all black? Since the parents live nearby and aren’t participating in move-in or orientation, it’s possible they won’t be receptive to any contact from you. I haven’t had any contact with D’s roommate’s parents. I expect to meet them during orientation, but if I didn’t, I wouldn’t contact them. The kids can coordinate who is bringing what to the room. What is the purpose of making contact? I never had any contact with my S’s freshman roommate’s parents. Is this customary? </p>
<p>@eyemamom - How did bid day go? </p>
<p>@overtheedge -I’d like to meet the parents and get a number in case of an emergency. But it’s not essential. I wasn’t planning on reaching out to them, just hoping to meet them. This is Spygirl’s show - she and her roommate have been communicating and have figured out who is bringing what. I just think it’s nice when the parents also have a chance to meet. </p>
<p>It’s great to hear all the updates! Congratulations to all those who’ve moved in and best wishes to those with moves to come!</p>
<p>@calla1 - So glad to see your update! What a turn-around!!</p>
<p>@momreads - What a busy time for you! </p>
<p>@oldmom4896 - are you driving? We’re flying out first thing Monday morning, and still so much to do between now and then.</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - hope it’s just a routine test. Had that done a few years ago, and know you’ll be glad to have that over with.</p>
<p>@Agentninetynine - I haven’t had any contact with D’s roommate’s parents either, and not sure if I will, as D’s roommate moved in a week early for her Fall sport. With D moving across the country, I’m hoping we do get a chance to meet. Hope everything works out between Spygirl and her roommate!</p>
<p>1dilecon, we are driving. It’s about 5.5 hours. Leaving noonish on Monday.</p>
<p>@1dilecon I have Crohn’s Disease so this is an annual occurrence for me. If things go well (fingers crossed), I will be able to eat fiber again. I haven’t had fiber in a year now because of a bad flare up. From how I’ve been feeling lately though, I don’t think that’s going to happen. We’ll see. </p>
<p>@Agentninetynine - we went out with d’s roommate and her parents the night before move in. They also had the same move in time. It was nice to see how normal they were, hopefully they aren’t posting somewhere about what weirdos we were. But I didn’t even think to ask for their numbers. </p>
<p>@Overtheedge - bid day was today, she had a really great week and she got a bid to Chi-Omega. Did my heart good to hear her so excited and happy. They assign her a mentor along with a big to help make sure she’s on track and doing well academically. </p>
<p>@calla1 great news about the improvement with a little good strategizing. </p>
<p>@Agentninetynine DS’s roommate asked DS to give me his dad’s email, so we could work out appliance logistics. So we’ve “met” briefly via email. With my older DS we never met the other parents except for a few minutes on move-in day and did not exchange contact information (which was also fine). </p>
<p>@onlyonemom I hope Trek launch went well today! My DS’s roommate is also headed off on a Trek this week.</p>
<p>Thank you to all who posted about the loss of my FIL. My husband and DS17 are visiting with his family now, they told me the memorial service today was short and sweet. Everyone went out to breakfast afterward, and H and DS got the job of entertaining the uncle the rest of them can’t stand. H said he wasn’t that bad, they talked about a favorite shared hobby. </p>
<p>DD14 is getting there with the packing. She has a big incentive now, if she’ finishes tonight we agreed her boyfriend can come over for a few hours tomorrow night. She just hit a roadblock, we had never thought about what to pack her jewelry in, or how she’ll want to store it in the dorm room. I can pick something up tomorrow if she gives me some ideas. Currently necklaces are hanging on 3M hooks and earrings are on a tree that may be bigger than she wants to bring. </p>
<p>@oldmom4896 I ‘met’ D’s roommate’s mom the same way, on the RIT facebook page. It’s been nice messaging off and on all summer. We did exchange contact numbers and I’m glad. D’s roommate is an international student so there’s a good chance she’ll be spending some breaks with us, or that D will be travelling around the world to stay with the roommates family. It’s nice to be already be somewhat acquainted.</p>
<p>It’s great to hear how well the launches are going overall, though I am shaking my head at the all-black room. Most dorm rooms are so tiny you can’t really make a color statement anyway. In theory D was going for neutral colors, but then got a deep red comforter and a black folding chair. She’s packed way too many decor items. I know one suitcase is coming back with me on Wednesday, it may be full of her favorite tchotchkes.</p>
<p>12dandelion, we went to the U-haul store yesterday to get some boxes–my daughter didn’t want to take my excellent advice that the best way to pack would be to line big blue IKEA bags with a black garbage bag and shovel everything in, since we no longer have a van and must squish everything into our sedan. While we were there, we saw a lot of really handy-looking bags and boxes for stuff like jewelry, and it was pretty reasonably priced. I also had a big roll of bubble wrap that I use to cover the air conditioner in her room for the winter and she used it for her nail polish collection. We also picked up a pack of bags designed to be used for individual plates that were useful to cushion little stuff.</p>
<p>I got to see DS today after his sports commitments were finished. We chatted in my hotel room for a bit, then headed off to Best Buy for a specific cable he needed to connect his computer to his TV (so he and roommate can watch Netflix and other streaming sites on the TV). Took him out for a nice sushi dinner, then went to see his dorm room and drop off the stuff I brought with me that he had forgotten. </p>
<p>As I was getting into my car, a family stopped to ask if I was from Virginia, and turned out they were too, just 20 minutes from me. Then I ran into a friend of DS’s (and his family) in the hotel lobby. I knew this boy was coming to Case but it was still funny to run into them at the hotel.</p>
<p>I have had no contact with the roommate’s parents, and I don’t expect to. I did meet the roommate briefly this evening. He and DS “met” back in April and decided to be roommates in May. They had texted nearly every day over the summer and have a lot of common interests, including their sport of course. He is also an engineering major and although he is from NC, he lived 3 miles from us when he was a young boy, and would have attended the same middle school as DS.</p>
<p>DS is very happy and really enjoying himself. He’s already got a nice group of friends from his sport and last night they went to a festival in Little Italy. This evening as we were walking to his dorm, a group of girls greeted him by name so it seems he is having no trouble making friends!</p>
<p>Tetris level: college freshman. Best way to describe my car is “large hatchback” and it is full. Really full. I thought this d had less than her sister, but alas, she appears to have the same amount of stuff. Packed at ready to go in just 9 hrs.</p>
<p>Tomorrow we pack up twin A for her move in on Monday. Luckilly, we have a week before twin B heads off. I will miss my daughters so much. I really hope my eyes stay dry until I get in the car and drive home. I don’t want to embarrass them.</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom – I can’t believe that you’ve accomplished everything that you got done in the past year, AND you have Crohn’s dz. I think that all single moms are heroes (I married one), but you are really quite something. </p>
<p>A few years ago, about a half-hour after I’d started my prep I got a call from my office informing me that I had to make a quick run back to sign something. I told them that I didn’t think it would be a good idea to get back into the car at that point. It proved to be prescient.</p>
<p>@jrmama496 – I can’t imagine what it must be like to suffer such a loss. I’m so sorry. I’m sure that the world will always be a bit diminished without her. Time is a wonderful healer, but the wounds must be very raw right now. Again, sorry. </p>
<p>@oldmom4896 - good luck packing everything, and safe travels Monday! Tomorrow promises to be a very busy day in our home, with last minute washing and packing before flying out at the crack of dawn Monday.</p>
<p>@2016BarnardMom - Hoping and praying all goes well for you the next couple of days, and you are given the dr’s okay to resume eating fiber. You are a great example of not letting anything slow you down! Congratulations on all you’ve accomplished in spite of Crohn’s!</p>
<p>Thanks folks. My physical endurance and strength have most certainly declined over the past 15 years (since I first got sick), but it has become my new normal and I’m learning to adjust still. I used to do so much more…lol. Now most things I do are sedentary. It is frustrating at times and I often don’t know how much of it is age and how much of it is perpetual malnutrition but I decided many years ago I wasn’t going to let this disease define me. It’s part of who I am, but it’s not all of who I am 
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<p>I’m trying to stay up until the kids get home in the next hour. They drove the entire way from Florida today- left at 6:45 am! </p>
<p>@jrmama496 - I am so sorry to hear of your loss. Cherish the memories with your sister. It will help to soften the pain.</p>