<p>Softball girl bought a dress when we were “home” in the UK last summer. Very simple and she is stunning in it. Even better it was on sale, and no one will have the same dress. She will go in a group or with a date, either way she will have fun. She is on class cabinet so she is involved in the planning. In our HS the Junior class plans the prom for the seniors. Both Juniors and Seniors can attend.</p>
<p>I can’t figure out how to join a FB group without “outing” my D, her school, etc. And I know she doesn’t want me to do that… 
I would love a “support group” though.</p>
<p>Here is my insane plan for the Feb break…hang on bc you will all be electing me president of the looney bin (which btw, I’m up for a private facebook group for the 2015 looney bin)…</p>
<p>Next Friday we drop H and S1 off at the airport for their flight to St. Louis for S1’s volleyball tournament. Me, D and S2 continue on to Wash DC for D’s volleyball tournament. Play Sat, Sun and Mon. Depending on when they get knocked out Monday, we head to American U. for their open house and try to get a tour. After that, check in to the hotel at Georgetown and have dinner at the Tombs. Tues. we have our official info session and tour at Gtown (without H which will be so strange!!!). Check out, get in the car and drive to Philly Tues afternoon. Check in to Philly hotel. Wed from 10:00 to 12:00 have tour and info session at Temple. Wed. from 1:00 to 3:00 have tour and info session at UPenn. After that, get in the car and drive home. I get Thursday home to relax and then Friday I get back in the car and drive to Lancaster, Pa for S1’s next volleyball tournament.</p>
<p>Oh and all these college tours will be with S2 in tow. I may have to invest in a few new iPad apps and DS games.</p>
<p>I’m tired just reading that.</p>
<p>Good luck to all the ACT takers tomorrow! </p>
<p>D’s student council is fundraising for prom. Don’t know when the prom is. But she brough back home a trashbag full of pepperoni rolls for delivery. </p>
<p>keepmecruisin, I too am exhausted just reading about your trip.</p>
<p>Having said that, I consider myself a champion of logistics and find a lot of satisfaction in pulling complex trips together (and pulling them off). I hope the weather and travel gods cooperate for you!</p>
<p>So jealous of all the proms and honor society shindigs…we don’t have jr.proms nor recognition for honor grades.</p>
<p>We visited a bunch of school late summer and four in fall. Have 5 spring visits set up. We are now officially on Naviance and have set up the 10 colleges our D is thinking of applying to. I begged her to put a state college on, bc all the private schools are listed at 50K and up. EEKS!</p>
<p>My D took her PSAT as jr., but she was in the minority. Most of her friends took as sophs. She was supposed to take Dec. ACT, got snowed out, and now must travel to another state to take tomorrow (not offered in ours for next few months). Hopefully she will do well enough and then she will be done. If not, one more ACT.</p>
<p>Love private FB…not always comfortable sharing with entire CC community, but this “Looney Bin” quite supportive and funny.</p>
<p>Packing tonight for D’s French class trip to Paris next week. They stay with host families and meet up in Paris each day. So excited for her, but as a Mom, a bit nervous…OK…really nervous…so far from home.</p>
<p>Gosh keepme, that is a LOT coming up, though mostly fun stuff…I always loved vball tournaments, as long as they often were it’s a great sport to watch especially when your kid is playing 
The only school we’ve seen on your list is Temple - will be interested to hear what you think as it’s where D did a week long engineering program but no official tour or info session. Enjoy a food truck meal, there are hundreds of them!</p>
<p>OHMom…are you familiar with Philly? I’m trying to figure out if we can get the 4 miles between each campus in an hour. We may have to sample some food truck food as there won’t be time for anything else. Of course S2 is insisting we have to go to Pat’s and Geno’s as he and H are huge fans of Man vs. Food :)) </p>
<p>Glad you were able to work out the honor roll breakfast and sorry that your son won’t be there ( did you write that or am I imagining that?). Sounds like you have a busy couple of days with all of the traveling- you may have to head straight to the LB when you get home. </p>
<p>I do not have a Facebook but I can certainly get one. Is there a way to do this without my kids knowing that I have it? </p>
<p>My D is on Student Council and is involved in planning the junior prom, but she does not like discussing it. She often flat out refuses and says it’s not her priority at the moment. She plans to go to the dance and buy a dress, pictures, etc… many will be dateless ( fine with me!!) and will go as a group. I realize I am repeating myself which brings me one step closer to the Looney Bin. </p>
<p>Tomorrow is the ACT and it has not been discussed :D. Again, she did a few practice sections on the snow day ( her choice, as I dare not mention the test) and then proclaimed that the topic was off limits. [-( . It seems that there are many topics that are off limits: ACT, college, junior prom, cleaning the white holes off the floor from the hole puncher, clearing off the table. Lately it seems that all of the rules for conversation are made by her!! >:/ </p>
<p>I recently put Temple on my radar, although in a perfect world it really needs to be on my kid’s radar and not mine. Presidents week we are seeing Duke, UNC-CH, UVA, Emory, UMD-CP, U of Richmond and Wake Forest. In April we will see Lafayette, Lehigh ( 2nd visit- first one was sophomore year but we figured we would go back since they heavily track interest), U of Delaware and American. Then we will most likely be done. I suspect there will be 1-2 schools that she applies to without visiting first. I wanted to go back to BU but not sure if that will be possible. </p>
<p>Good luck to all test takers tomorrow!! You are all welcome to attend our book shredding party. :D/ </p>
<p>Good luck to all test takers (and their parents) tomorrow! I will be thinking good thoughts for all of you.</p>
<p>A private Loony Bin facebook group sounds great. I have a very limited facebook presence. </p>
<p>@keepmecruisin, that is an ambitious plan for visits and travel! We are also planning on being in the DC area and Philadelphia during the same week and may even be at some of the same schools at the same time. How funny would that be! We were originally scheduled to see Georgetown on Tuesday but had to change it to Monday.</p>
<p>I just tried to create a group on Facebook, but it won’t work unless you’re all on my friends list. Is there another way?</p>
<p>HeliMom – As far as I understand it, if you create a private group, then it’s “invite only” and you can only invite people on your FB “friends” list. (I’m not an expert, though). Since people can’t see the group, they can’t ask to join it.</p>
<p>Okay, I think I’ve done it. Send me a message if you’d like the link.</p>
<p>@Apollo6, we won’t be seeing the state summaries until September 2014? Where did you see that? The PSAT-related threads led me to believe we’d be seeing state-specific data in Feb…as in, that’s at least what CB used to do prior to this year. Oh, my gosh, if that is true…it’s an Ugh Moment for sure. If you could plz let me know where you saw that info, I’d really appreciate it!</p>
<p>Okay, for someone who’s been on Facebook for seemingly 100 years, I seem to be incapable of getting this doen simply. I think I have it (again). I can send email invitations to folks who wish to join the group. Send me a message via CC with your email address, and I will add you to the group.</p>
<p>keepme, I’m not that familiar with Temple and North Philly but you should be fine getting from Temple to Penn well within an hour. I’d do something simple like drive south on Broad until Market or Walnut, then turn right and drive west until you hit Penn. There’s probably a faster route but that route shouldn’t take more than 20-30 minutes. Philly isn’t a big city. </p>
<p>South Philly with Jim’s steaks (and Pat’s?) is also about 20 minutes away by car. The worst is trying to find parking.</p>
<p>I have a question about FB because I do not have one. If I make a FB account and join the Looney Bin support group is there any way that my kids will know? My D has no idea that I post here- not quite sure how she would react. If I start posting on FB I may have to confess. </p>
<p>Melt down here a few minutes ago. Seems she has a " stupid useless paper" to write that she will never use in life. I got her out of it quickly by threatening to take a picture of her fingernails and send it to her sister to post on Twitter. The kid needs to cut her nails or get a manicure or do something… :ar! We both seemed to get a good laugh out of it. </p>
<p>Soon I will start sharpening pencils but will keep it at a manageable number- not 21 like I did with D12.</p>
<p>We went to Philly a few years ago for a long weekend. It was freezing but we loved it. </p>
<p>@twogirls - you can open a facebook account and your daughter doesn’t have to know a thing! you just have to be careful to not friend her or anybody she’s friends with.</p>