Wait Ballerina and Mysonsdad. I take back my take back. I was looking at 2015. I do not think the invites are out yet. Tomorrow will probably be the day.
@LKnomad @Ballerina016 @Mysonsdad Temporarily emerging from the flu fog to wave hello and say that S also got the UCLA alumni scholarship invite. Nothing about Regents.
@Ballerina016 @happymochi @mysonsdad. It is good to have others to wait with. My kid doesnât want to hear about it.
Anyone else waiting on UCLA Regents?
@happymochi join the UCLA waiting club. Are you getting better? How is your son @LKnomad ?
@Ballerina016 still sick. Heading back to Dr tomorrow. Going to ask him to check for walking pneumonia.
@happymochi sorry I missed your flu comment. I hope you feel better soon. This season is kicking everyoneâs butt with illness.
Still sick here too. Hope your son feels better soon @LKnomad
I enjoyed reading all the prom commentary. I hope all of the UCLA hopefuls get some good news tomorrow.
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@labegg-- S swears that playing Assassinâs Creed and Civ has been the single greatest help with Academic Team. Since our school doesnât offer Art History or Music History, he may be right.
@LKnomad : Get Well wishes to your S!
And for all those whoâve applied to and are waiting to hear from California schools/Regents/scholarships, crossed fingers!
@petrichor11 My son says the same thing about Civilizations. Also anyone who needs tuxedos, around Christmas, JC Penneys was selling individual pieces for black tuxes . May be cheaper than renting several. Hope everyone is better soon.
@petrichor11 @carolinamom2boys My S14 is majoring in computer game design and development AND he is a history, geography, and biology buff. Iâll pass along that comment so he can do his best to sneak more learning into the game play 
My gamer S16 went to prom last year (invited by a senior) and we bought a very nice dark suit. Of course he probably wonât go to prom this year but Iâm hoping heâll still be able to fit into it for job interviews (weddings, funerals, etc).
Re: senior year Prom
My d expressed that she had no interest in prom until last year. All of a sudden it was important to her. She went with a friend date with a group that were mainly also just friends. There was only one ârealâ couple.
Since we did not go for a spring break vacation (canât afford to due to high cost of competition dance), I took her to Chicago for a dance convention workshop, for a weekend of dance instruction and shopping. She found two dresses that she absolutely loved. One was within what I considered to be our price range. The other cost twice as much. We ended up getting both and she contributed $250.00 towards the price of one (summer job) . So, she has had her dress for quite some time. At the time, her father had just received a big promotion with a large bonus- so it seemed the timing, although different from what most do, was good for us.
Surprisingly, she now has a boyfriend. So, I guess she will likely go with him and a group. Although if it doesnât work out, she will just go with a group. She just wants to have fun and the dating thing is not important to her at this time. Of course the dancing part of Prom is a lot of fun for her with her many, many hours of dance training in all genres of dance. I have calculated that she has spent more than 10,000 hours on dance.
@crowlady My son will be a CS major so Iâm sure heâll have some opportunity to put his gaming expertise to good use .
Description of Jr. Prom weekend:
Last year, she had a dance competition scheduled out of town- 4 hr drive, same weekend as Prom. The schedule comes out one week prior to the date of the competition. If there is a schedule conflict, the individual dancer is not excused as each person is considered to be an essential part of the team. SO, we ordered the dress after the schedule came out and we determined she would not have to dance on Saturday. We got the dress three days before prom and I stayed up all night hemming the two-layered dress because we did not have time for professional alterations. I then slept for 3-4 hours Saturday evening, drove my d to the competition from 1 AM to 5 AM early Sunday morning. She had to be ready to go on stage at 7:30 AM. We checked into the hotel and she and I got 1 hr sleep. Then, off to the competition all day and another 4 hour drive, arriving home at approx. 4 AM. What a weekend⊠It was at this point that I realized that I am getting older and no longer able to pull off all-nighters that well. No way would I ever try to do this again at my age.
@momofsmartdancer what we do for our kids!! Your daughter will never forget that commitment to her.
That thing is happening to me where I click on a thread with new messages and it goes way back to old messages instead of right to the newest ones. Is there a fix for that or is it just a glitch?
Jumping into the prom conversation, D16 found the perfect prom dress at Salvation Army for $15. She is very thrify so she still wasnât sure if she wanted to pay the $60 ticket to go (no meal included). Plus she doesnât like dancing and crowds so she wasnât sure if she would enjoy it. There was a group of about 10 of her friends going and she was really torn but it seemed like the high school rite of passage. In the end she decided that all she really wanted was all of prom but the prom part itself. So she asked her friends if they were okay with her joining for all but prom. She got all dressed up and meet them for a fun (non professional) photo shoot at one girls house. Then they all went out to dinner together and when they all headed over to the official prom dance she came home. She had a fantastic time, the photos to prove it, and money in the bank for other priorities.
@mom23travelers
What a great solution. Your d seems like she is great at approaching things from a creative, think outside of the box way. Although my d loves the dance part of Prom she is much like yours. It is not unusual at all for my d to say that a group of her friends are getting together to do x,y, and z and she will only be doing the x and y part of itâŠ
In general, I think kids who think like that should be applauded for thinking for themselves. Not being the type to cave to peer pressure is a very good quality to have.
To the local UCLA Regents waiters and CSULB families close by @Ballerina016 @mysonsdad @happymochi @Mom2jl Stay safe and try not to blow away while waiting!
Counted FB pictures of 7 trees and an In-and-Out Burger sign down in my city. Plus no electric for many!
Mysonsdad. Not sure if you are experiencing the windy excitement in your neck of the woods.
One of D16âs friends is 5 months pregnant. The dad is a nursing student (Freshman) that sheâs been with for over a year. She was planning on going to school for exercise physiology and maybe PT. They may be giving the baby up for adoption.
D is trying to process. They are both good kids. Her mom is a nurse but sheâs one of, I believe 7 (blended family) and shes been raising herself for they last couple of years. He was a foster kid who was adopted with his sibs at 12. Her mom doesnât know yet. Hug your kids.