Sending thoughts and prayers for this difficult time! 
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D asked about an ice cream machine on every tour or admission interview! It was a big deal for her 
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this is so close to being a “goofiest reasons your kid rejected a school” contender…
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She is such an ice cream and custard snob too! I don’t know how she will live until Friday!
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So which places don’t have ice cream? Asking for a friend. 
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Every college we went to had a soft serve machine. I didn’t realize some places didn’t have them this day and age. Heck, my tiny college had one back in 1996. 
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D25 had her senior pictures last night. I didn’t even cry. Proud of myself.
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D25 had a Senior ceremony for her sport. One of the other moms said, “this is going to be just a year of goodbyes, isn’t it?”
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OMG thank you! We were registered over 100 miles away, made the switch!
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Every single school we toured has had one! I’m sure it’s my savvy research skills inadvertently eliminating schools w/o one from the list to tour 
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One of my D25’s top schools is building a new cafeteria. Now I’m thinking I need to make sure they are putting the ice cream machine in the new caf. lol
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My son’s school has self scoop ice cream instead of soft serve.
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We are planning to tour Delaware and they have a full blown creamery on campus. It’s to be determined if there’s a soft serve machine in one of the cafeterias but if not I’m sure the creamery could get her by. I blame all of this on Carnival cruises for having the ice cream machine available all day when she was 9.
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S25 had his wisdom teeth out on Wednesday. So far so good with recovery, lots of jello, yogurt, soup, mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs and McDonald’s soft serve. I’m hoping he’s game for some ravioli in broth tonight.
In other news, he wants to spend his 18th birthday money (birthday is in September) plus some of the money he’s made at his job this summer on building a fancy desktop computer. After making him revise the parts list and research lower cost options, then justify why he wants the higher cost option, then search for sales, we finally started pulling the trigger on buying the parts. About half are here, the other half should hopefully arrive by Monday or Tuesday (we bought over the course of several days, so shipping isn’t all happening at once). He’s really excited, which is great. Right now he’s not on the schedule to work next week, so I’m glad he’ll have something to do.
And speaking of which, I’m kind of annoyed at the day camp he’s working at. When he accepted the job they made it sound like it would be full time, all summer. The weeks he works it is full time, but next week will be the third week he isn’t on the schedule. For a kid who was counting on the money made this summer to carry through some of his expenses for next year, that’s pretty frustrating. He doesn’t have a lot of out of pocket expenses, so it’s not a huge deal, but if this were the summer before he starts college it would be different. So now he’s learned that’s a question he needs to ask before accepting a summer job - how often do most employees get scheduled to work.
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Last week D25 had her senior picture photo session and today she had her senior yearbook photos. She’s not on rough draft #2 of her college essay and has added to her short answers. She said she’s much happier with her 2nd draft. She still needs to cut it down some.
One month until the start of school but things like student council are starting up already. We’re currently on “when will the stores put out their homecoming dresses” watch.
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Totally unrelated to my kid, but I can’t post about it anywhere else… I think i’m going to get offered a new job. I finished round three of interviews week before last, and it didn’t feel great. Between that and the fact that I thought they said that they’d be making calls last week - and no one called me last week - I figured it went to someone else. But they called this morning and asked for references, my most recent evaluations, and came pretty close to saying “as long as the references aren’t crap, you’ll get it.”
Fingers so crossed. My current place isn’t awful, and I’ve only been here 15 months so I will feel bad leaving, but this isn’t the right fit. I’m far enough along in my life that I want a job that fits and feels right, and I think the new gig could be that. I don’t want to jinx myself, but I’m really hopeful.
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Congratulations! I hope its smooth sailing with the details. It will feel great to be well settled in the right job while you get your kid ready for their next adventure.
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My D is back from Europe and wants to take the 4th year AP class for the language. The only way to fit it into her schedule is to drop AP stats. She will not have a math class senior year or science. At first I told her absolutely not but when she said she was thinking of minoring in the language I changed my mind. Also as a music ed major she is on track to take the required math for educators college level course. The language would be helpful in the music world and some of the strongest abroad programs are in countries that speak the language. The guidance counselor has agreed to allow the change and stated that since she’s taking AP macro with financial literacy that she’s having some math exposure. I hope this doesn’t affect her apps too negatively but most schools she’s applying for have an 80% admissions rate.
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I would check the college websites, carefully looking at high school math requirements to make absolutely sure she has met the minimum. Even with an 80% acceptance rate, there may be specific minimums for math.
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D25 received a really nice “old school” day planner / organizer today from Papier. Opened it up and there was a card inscribed “Have an amazing Senior Year”.
All well and good, but, it turns out that she sent it to herself. Self-affirmation? I was a little bummed that I did not think to have it sent to her.
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