The prom at our school is tomorrow. D26 isn’t going. She’s relieved that her classmates finally, after 5 yr of bugging her to go to school dances, have stopped asking her if she’s going.
Instead, D26 & I are going to admitted student day at U of A and we’re going to hang out with my sister (who lives in the area) afterwards. Am totally going to buy her some swag at the campus bookstore.
Made a couple more purchases on Amazon to add to D26’s stash, but I’m going to wrap the items and gift her a small collection of dorm stuff as graduation gifts on graduation day.
Looks like the college is almost done applying her AP scores to course credits. She just has to ask her advisor a couple of questions about that but none of that is time sensitive right now.
The day after graduation day, D26 & my sister leave on the Cool Aunt-Funded Grad Trip. We’re going to meet my sister at the airport. D26 doesn’t know it yet, but our family friends who are coming to visit for the graduation are going to help us see her off at the airport. We’re secretly planning on making embarrassing signs, bringing some balloons, etc.
This is such a momentous decision for 18 years olds to make! I have butterflies in my stomach whenever I think about it. My D26 got into her most selective school (which was a shock) and has already decided (and told everyone) that’s where she’s going. The kicker is that we haven’t even visited it yet (scheduled for 4/18). It’s possible that she’s built it up so much in her mind that she ends up being disappointed once we see it IRL.
Different situation with my D23: she was already disappointed with her options three years ago and chose the best school under those circumstances. It ended up being an awesome decision and my kid is extremely happy.
I’m already in a dance troupe and I crochet – but I may need to take a up a third hobby. My youngest and I spend a lot of time together. It’s going to be a hard adjustment I think.
Per your list —Mah Jhong and Pickeball both sound lovely! I think both! One for physical activity and one to keep the mind sharp!
My other Jewish friends have played for years but lately it’s all over. I’m thinking of hosting a beginner’s night at my office for the community (I own a PT practice ). But mah jongg requires zero athletic skill unless you count tiles in one hand and a drink in the other.
Pickleball, now that is exercise… but I’m so bad at tennis it’s shocking I actually enjoy it.
Well we survived senior spring break. And if you recall the crazy flight prices we chose Southwest over $$$$$ Delta (keep in mind Atlantans are delta snobs me included). Well never again . Connecting in Orlando both ways did me in.
But the trip was great! It’s fun to see all the kids getting along, few cliques, and even the parents having good old fashioned fun! It was worth the travel hassle for one last big hurrah.
Next up: college cheer tryouts, cheer worlds (like Super Bowl of cheer), the. I. exams and graduation. When do we sleep?
When are the college cheer tryouts, this weekend or next? Good luck for those, I’m sure she’ll do great as she’s obviously very talented!
My daughter has spent the past week filling out paperwork for her college cheer team. It’s A LOT. Due today though, so I’ll be happy to have them done. Also, the team said they would work with housing to match her with another student athlete for her roommate. She wasn’t having a ton of luck on Instagram and didn’t want to room with another cheerleader (not that that would have been an option anyway because none of the other freshman cheerleaders are in the honors college), so she was happy to have this option. She just has to finish filling out the housing questionnaire.
It is also interesting how these reactions can change depending on what the kid is actually doing on the campus when they visit. Actually both my kids had the same shift with Cal Poly… I remember this with S23 as well! First visit, basic campus tour, meh. 2nd visit for admitted student open house, in-depth presentations from people in their major, tours of labs and project spaces, etc… the reaction at that point for both kids was WOW!
St Olaf Admitted Students Day yesterday was excellent per wife and son. They fly home today, he spends 24 hours catching up on homework and working on a film shoot, and then we fly to New Orleans for Tulane on Monday.
Friend lies to Mudd for his last visit today.
Back in the day, my peers went to college sight unseen. Pound foolish maybe, but my penny wise side understands. My wife estimates we will have spent half as much money on the search as our financial aid packages say we will spend next year.
As I am on my third trip requiring flights in three weekends right now, my soul empathizes with your penny wise side. The cost is not insignificant. I feel fortunate that we are able to do it.
Also, when we were at Pitzer last week all the students were talking about the food at Mudd. And, we thought the Pitzer food was great.
We head to Wesleyan tomorrow. S26 is committed already but wants to see the campus again before he moves in this fall. And some of the kids he’s been chatting with on Instagram are going. I’m glad we can pull it off but yeah… the wallet is lighter!
Looking at current airfares and … yeah, I’m in the “glad we can do it but…” camp. At least I have enough points and free nights to not be paying or mostly not paying for hotels but I can tell you, I am totally sick of Hyatt Place (but keep booking them when we have C26 due to the partial privacy aspect). When we are traveling on our own it will be different, lol.
On the other side of the matter, and it’s not quite apples for apples because college costs come out of the 529 and flights don’t, but even as full pay OOS C26’s college costs are going to be significantly less than D19’s undergrad was, like by $20k+ a year.
Our high airfares could not have been avoided because of how late the schools notified D26 she was in compared to when the admitted student days were. Our first trip to Agnes Scott was more manageable cost wise since she was in since November. But the other notices that came in late March were another matter. That the war was already making airfares tick up even further just added insult to injury.
