SomeOldGuy your post is very sweet and got me teary eyed. I still have 5 weeks worth of lunches to make, but I must confess that I hate that job. I am starting to tear up when I see kids getting off a school bus.
FCCDAD I read some of your other posts and I know you went through some tough times. I am glad to hear that there are happier times ahead.
Well my kids are sharing a car because I refuse to have 4 cars (D12 is home). That means that I am now driving and picking up D when her sibling has the car. I forgot how hard that can be.
Snap out of it people!! They are not going to a leper colony!!! They are not leaving you - believe me I can’t seem to get rid of anyone - boomeranging back after college is done. Everytime one leaves another returns!!!
I don’t remember so much angst on the 2014 board last year, but for me it’s sadder this year because all the concerts are ending. DS 2017 wouldn’t get up on stage if his life depended on it!
Fun news, but not unexpected; DS 2015 is salutatorian. Though I began to wonder if he’d keep his spot with the way his differences with his calculus teacher have been piling up.
Every Sunday in May has been an opportunity for more Senior Mom tears…last orchestra concert with senior solo violin performance, senior brunch/baccalaureate on Mother’s Day, and the solo violin concert day before yesterday. It won’t be his last violin performance as he plans to keep playing and will join the student orchestra at college, but I doubt he will have another solo concert unless he returns as his teacher’s guest. He went to his last boy scout Court of Honor – last time he could wear his Eagle rank badge and merit badge sash because he turned 18 two days later and adults don’t wear rank badges or sashes. It’s just one final thing after another. Oh, what about that book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch – I have never made it all the way through that one without crying. So glad to know I’m not the only one with tears dripping these days!!
I have one that came home after freshman year, but didn’t go back this past year. I am s.e.r.i.o.u.s.l.y. hoping she can make the climb up the long hill ahead of her to go back in the fall.
In the past week, we’ve enjoyed the last choir concert and piano recital. We’re working on plans to do a recital/graduation in late June or early July.
Back from D1’s UMinn graduation and it’s great to have her home for a few months before grad school starts!! Everything went well (despite some heavy rain showers drowning out pictures afterwards), but if I never have to drive through/around/near Chicago EVER again I won’t shed a single tear. ~X(
No chance of things slowing down in the Wolverine Den though. D2 and S had their final day of senior exams yesterday <:-P and are waiting on grades to be posted…but luckily only minor senioritis to worry about. Their 18th birthdays are on Saturday, family starts arriving for graduation on Sunday, and graduation is a week from tomorrow.
Hope to get a little breather in early June before we ramp up for S’s driving test prep and apartment hunting in Cincinnati for D1’s grad school. Too early to even start stressing about move-in dates for D1 and D2 in August…sigh
Finding it harder and harder to remember when “summer vacation” actually involved…vacation.
My mom had no break making lunches, voluntarily. By the time I graduated HS, my oldest sibling was back living at home and she made him lunch every day to take to work unless he asked her not to, which was rare. And by the time I graduated college, she was making two lunches per day for those left in the house.
I remember how it was special to once in a while buy lunch in HS, but often I’d get cookies and milk, and keep the rest of the money. Now my kids spend up to $9 (!) during lunch because the lunches are so small - one “premium lunch” is $3, $1.50 for a decent drink, $1 for chips, $1.50 for ice cream, and oh, it’s getting warm out, I need another drink = $1.50 more and you’ve got $8.50.
I think Michelle Obama is in league with school lunch companies to cut calories in lunches. Regular let alone thin and/or athletic kids suffer, and obese kids are not getting fat from one meal of the day. My oldest has friends well over six foot and the regular lunch meal is barely a snack for them.
^I agree 100% about school lunches. The size and content of school lunches, at least in our school district, leave much to be desired. Elementary school lunches in our district appear to be geared to the needs of small 1st graders. My physically mature, athletic 5th grade daughter would need about 3 school lunches to fill her up. Even though we qualify for reduced price lunches (1 per child; any additional meals or sandwiches are full price), none of my teens buys them and the 5th grader does so only occasionally, due to generally poor quality and quantity. Fortunately, our small school district has open lunch for middle and high school kids (elementary with parent permission), so the teens can walk home for lunch.
The food is pretty good in my children’s district, and the lunch people are really nice. When I was growing up, the food was terrible, the cookies and milk were probably the healthiest and best things there.
Our kids never cared for “hot lunch” (and we tried) Whether it was the quantity or quality? I don’t know… but we covered the majority of the basic food groups in sufficient quantity to get each of the boys over 6’1" :-bd
I haven’t made lunch in years! Once she got to middle school, the lunches got better - she has a spinach salad for lunch every day at school - or did, anyway; seniors can leave campus and she sometimes she and her friends go out for sushi.
The news just came in from the County of Keck
That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck
Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck.
This many not seem very important, I know.
But it is. So I’m bothering telling you so.
A yawn is quite catching, you see. Like a cough,
It takes just one yawn to start other yawns off.
Now the news has come in that some friends of Van Vleck’s
Are yawning so wide you can look down their necks.
At this moment, right now, under seven more noses,
Great yawns are in blossom. They’re blooming like roses.
(from memory, although it helps that I still read it to D2 and D3.)
@suzy100: You should never worry about preempting me, particularly for such an appropriate selection. Since I inadvertently turned the mood maudlin yesterday, I should make it up to you today. And I’ll do that by reporting the excellent news that Metric released its first new song in three years last week. I’m completely in the tank for this band, and Emily Haines in particular, so I’ve got an entire set for you. The first link is the new video. The second is the best-known track from Metric’s excellent 2012 album, “Synthetica.” And the third is a rocker from 2009’s “Fantasies.”
My monster momma loves me so
Let me tell you how I know
When I wake up she tweaks my nose
And tickles all my pointy toes
Combs the cobwebs from my bangs
And makes sure I brushed my fangs
(And I wonder why my kid is weird…this was her favorite bedtime book for years.)
(From memory, too, which is impressive because I have trouble remembering my daughter’s phone number now.)
The most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They’re bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, [something]-ouncy,
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I’m The Only One!
TTFN, Ta Ta For Now!
I used to go about saying that when I was little. Tigger was my favorite Disney character - still is.
It did make me think of this song though (not to preempt you,