Congratulations!! Must be a relief to have a decision finally 
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Congratulations!! A great choice and I’m glad she’s feeling confident and wearing the sweatshirt!
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Oh! What is that called? I wonder if it would fit on D24’s desk.
UVA is such a great place and it has a SLAC vibe while being a state flagship. Maybe it’s the best of both worlds for him . We loved it when we visited with S24 (and it’s at the top of. His law school list)
Congrats on the decision and in state tuition!!!
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Congratulations!!
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My husband has this shirt and wore it when we moved S24 in freshman year. He thought it was so cool… he was a walking dad joke 
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Big congrats to you!!! What a gorgeous campus that is!
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We did something similar to prevent the dog from going down to the basement since that is where the cat little and dry food was. We were finally able to remove the gate after a year and he is now terrified of the basement and refuses to even go down there so no gate is needed!! And the cat sleeps locked in the basement every night b/c he otherwise climbs all over everyone and no one gets sleep - these pets!!!
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Not to mention that we paid for dress, shoes, hair, prom tix, boutonnière , etc., etc.
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Omg, one of my parenting fails happened this week because of senior assassin! Learn from my mistake!!!
I had been checking outside before my S26 left the house and came back in for more than a week. Then one afternoon, as I went to check, I saw an unfamiliar car on our court. It’s a small court and we know all the cars. A young woman was sitting in it and her door was propped open. I said hi to her and made some comment about the open door and she seemed older to me, so it didn’t set off my alarm. I looked briefly up and down the street, saw a neighbor, and told my son it was clear. As soon as he opened his door, someone hiding behind a car across the street jumped out and shot him!
Since my son was the captain, his whole team was out. I felt so bad!! Learn from my mistake and really look behind all the cars.
Have fun!
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Vattenkar. $29. Comes in a compact box, so it’s easy to stash in a car trunk on your way to college move-in. Doesn’t take forever to assemble either.
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Congratulations! Back in the dark ages, I went on a minority student visit overnight trip event to Hamilton. I absolutely loved it there and it was high on my list. Like my D26, I ultimately wanted to be in a city. But, they almost persuaded me otherwise. Such a wonderful place to go to school!
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We have a baby gate on our laundry room because the cats’ food and litter is in there – otherwise the dog would go in and eat liberally from both. 
(Gotta love labs.)
We used to crate her at night up until a couple years ago – she loves her crate and was fine with it, but now she’ll be 14 this year, and she just kind of passes out on the kitchen floor and doesn’t move, so it’s not worth it to tell her to get in the crate, lol.
And yes, one of our cats likes to sleep on top of me – or do sprints – in the middle of the night, and the other one just complains to me that she needs petting, but then sits just out of reach. At 3am. For no reason. (But it would be chaos if we tried to lock them somewhere.)
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Yay! Congrats!
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Congratulations!!!
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YES! And she said it felt like a big weight off her shoulders. She also seemed happy with her decision AFTER pushing the button (we might have sat with that screen for a few minutes with her saying, “Should I push it??”)
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Our lab would do this too! I love labs but mine only had one neuron.
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Re: SLAC bound kids—so true! So far we have had commitments to Hamilton, Kenyon, Macalester, Occidental, Wesleyan, Wellesley… and those are just off the top of my head from recent posts and my own kid.
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Oh yes indeed. Our Aussiedoodle ate a pair of D26’s underwear this morning- he hasn’t done that in years. Praying it just passes on its own!
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Good advice, though if she’s counting on me to notice things, she’ll be killed in short order. I’m really not that observent.
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