I would’ve been a nervous wreck @fretfulmother . Just like when your phone rings late at night .
@fretfulmother I’m glad no one was hurt or anything. Your car being side swiped isn’t the first thing you think of when police knock on your door at night and say there is bad news.
I would have had a heart attack if that had happened, @fretfulmother ! Holy cow, way to overstate things!
@palm715 it’s always the same people saying the same things. When I was new here I used to argue with them, but I finally gave up because their minds are closed. The OP in that thread loves to post headlines and comments to bait people into nasty threads. Sometimes I have to jump in though. I don’t know why he hasn’t been banned by now.
On another note, I just spent an hour working on the paper roses that I’m am putting on D’s graduation card (that I"m making). Nothing is ever as easy as it looks on those online tutorials, but I finally got ones that I can use. There’s a whole lot of scrap paper in the recycling bin, however. I had to wait until she wasn’t going to be around and I had a solid block of time to devote to this experiment. I never like the cards I see in the stores, so I always end up making my own. They don’t usually involve 3D paper flowers, though.
@fretfulmother - what a scare! glad no one was hurt & hopefully it won’t be a hassle to fix the car.
Thank you for your nice words, @readingclaygirl, @carolinamom2boys, and @bookmom7!
I am sort of disappointed that “past salad” is just “pasta salad” without an (but of course it is). Instead, I wondered what fantastic culinary dish from the south I’ve been missing all these years. I also liked @fretfulmother’s explanation of recycled veggies!
@fretfulmother, wow, heart-stopping moment. Maybe they tell you in that way and at that time so when you hear that they damaged the car, you won’t be as upset because everything worse will have already flashed through your time.
^^^^Evidently, that was my post #666. So sorry to those of you I tagged.
So remember how my neighbor died in a fire a few months back? Well anyway part of this big tree from her yard just fell on our house. Nothing is broken or anything but now my parents have to do stuff with insurance and whose responsibility it is, especially since nobody lives there.
oh no @readingclaygirl - glad no one was hurt- did it land on your roof?
@bookmom7 On the part of the roof over the garage. According to the claims department of our insurance company, it is her son’s responsibility to deal with it and get someone to get the tree off our roof. So my dad has to call him
What a mess. Thankfully no one was hurt.
That’s awful @readingclaygirl! I hope it gets resolved quickly. Thank goodness your family is ok.
Thank you @carolinamom2boys @psychmomma My dad called the son and apparently he can’t do anything because the house is still in probate. So tomorrow my dad has to call the town
Wow, that’s sort of scary, @readingclaygirl. I am sorry you have the insurance hassle, but glad no one was hurt.
Although I’m still processing my own personal experience of D16’s commencement (and thank you all for your so-welcome support), I am now 100 percent joyful to know my D16 has crossed the h.s. graduation threshold. It’s so real. It’s divine! It feels like she’s solidly in the driver’s seat of her adult life (although she is being gracious about my occasional back-seat driving).
Her college has orientations throughout summer and she snagged the first one, in June. It’s an overnight. I’ll drive her up, stay a couple of hours for a parent presentation, then head home with plans to collect her the next afternoon. She’s done an online English placement test and will do the math and FL placements at the campus during orientation. So far, she plans to hit the Honors program session and pick her courses. She’ll be staying in the Honors housing for the orientation overnight, so I’ve tasked her with taking some pix of the room and bathroom. Roommate assignments don’t come until late July.
Next week, the first full week post-graduation, will be spent involved with some service project in her sport. Hopefully, that’Il be fun for her. The following week, I’ll take off work and teach her some home renovation skills, which she can use here at the house before July, when her summer job starts. Hopefully, that’ll be fun, too – the home reno and the job. 
She’s planning to read for 2-3 hours per day and to attend a lot of free summer festivals around town. Plus her job, which runs through the first week of August. After that, she’s basically celebrating her 18th birthday for three weeks until move-in, and I’ll be home on “vacation” with her for those last weeks. 
Near the end of August, her college has a move-in day and the following day as a “welcome” for freshmen on campus. The continuing students then move in and classes start the next day. The school has a lot of commuters. Only about 30 percent of students (undergrad and grad, or just undergrad?) live on campus.
Is it obvious I just filled in our summer calendar?
Now. Onward to the to-do list…like Dorm Mountain, immunization records, a checking account, dorm insurance (maybe), etc.
Hope everyone is enjoying this transition time, even with its bitter-sweet moments!
@readingclaygirl good luck with the tree situation!! What a pain for your family.
We have a high school graduate in our house!
Actually, no she’s in a car right now with her grandmother, going to her grandmother’s house…
Been a very, very hectic weekend - graduation ceremony on Thursday, dinner at a fancy restaurant after, then senior luncheon the next day, then to a bonfire party (really one of this little outdoor fire pits) at a friend’s, then prom on Saturday and helping her get ready for that. Yesterday she packed to go off with my Mom for two weeks. Whew.
We managed to go shopping for her trip to Grandma’s and Florida some time in between, it was all a blur…
And when I woke up yesterday, I was SICK. Some kinda head cold/sore throat thing… blah. D had it last week, but she said she didn’t feel that badly… at least it waited until everything was over!
Still sick, and will be spending the rest of the day sitting around and watching tv and reading… and catching up here on CC!
Hope everything is going smoothly for all the new graduates and graduates-to-be.
Hope you feel better soon @BeeDAre ! I’ve never heard of a HS where prom and other activities take place AFTER graduation!
It’s the Final Countdown here. Today is the last day of regular classes, then 2 finals tomorrow, breakfast made by the founder of the school on Wednesday, followed by a secret senior field trip. Last year they went to the park and played Ultimate Frisbee. Thursday is Senior Signing Day and of COURSE D is helping organize it. Friday senior breakfast put on by staff and grad practice. I know I’ve shared most of that already, but we have some returning after being MIA, so forgive me for repeating.
We’ve had a wicked heat wave the last few days. D was completely stressed about what to wear today and stay in dress code, then decided, “In a week, I can wear whatever I want FOREVER!” Well, not exactly, but it sounded good at the time…
@BeeDAre, D had a touch of a cold after finals, vitamin C (emergenC) and zinc lozenges helped alot to shorten it.
Summer is here. D got a job!
Another Dad here, and while I’m not recognizing the “lasts” that are happening (or have happened), I do know it’s going to be rough saying goodbye in August.
I’m not mentally prepared to have my S head off to school, and given the likely schedule it will be almost 2 full months between departure and the first visit home. That will be far, far longer than he’s ever been gone before. It’ll definitely be an adjustment. My older S and I have been, somewhat, naturally closer, so having him gone will leave a hole for sure.
I know I’ll fill some of that by spending more time with our younger S who normally likes to just hole up on his own.I got him to teach me how to play Smash Bros. Melee, and as much as a SUCK at playing it, it gives us some common ground to “hang out” a couple times a week.
Fall is will be easier too as we’re heavily involved in the HS Marching Band; that will definitely help ease the transition (even if it is a reminder that S1 isn’t there) as we’ll continue to cheer on S2.
D is abroad. Exciting but scary. (For me, anyways.) I suppose it’s a good test run for what’s to come in a few months. Had a night out with my sweetie, and family time as a group of 3 instead of 4. As soon as D gets back she has paperwork to fill out for college for federal loans, work study, etc. She picked out classes awhile back, not sure when she will see those results. Roommate selection starts next month, I believe. I have a corner ready to start dorm mountain in. Perhaps we’ll work on that when she returns in a few weeks. I really wanted to clean out her room while she was gone, but figured that should probably wait until she actually leaves for school. So instead, I just moved the dirty, possibly clean clothes off her floor, vacuumed, and scattered them back about. LOL (One of the jobs she meant to do before leaving, but somehow ran out of time to do.)