Indeed! I can’t remember if I knew that.
Now that mine are 18, I’m only slightly less tired than when they were toddlers. 
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I joke about this, but there’s truth in it - I don’t really remember their year 0-1. Just bits and pieces like a dream. Ended up with vertigo from the lack of sleep!
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OMG yes. It was insanity. And we had some health issues and surgeries and just all kinds of havoc going on that first year.
My mom had come to stay and help with the babies (and our 3-year-old) the first few weeks they were home, and she and I and my husband had a feeding rotation going on during the overnights. I left notes for the next person about how much baby A and baby B had eaten, etc.
The NICU had given us little beanie baby monkeys in the bag we brought home. I found the best way to feed the babies was to sit on the floor between them with each in a bouncy seat and bottle-feed them. (I was pumping full-time because our son had an oral motor delay and couldn’t nurse, so I pretty much never slept.) And then one night I discovered that I could prop a bottle with a beanie baby monkey while burping the faster-eating baby, then swap for the other.
My note that night just said, “When you need to burp, use a monkey.”
My husband’s written response was just, “What?”
We were both just barely hanging on in some crazed sleep-deprived alternate universe, LOL.
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Fingers crossed for your kiddo!
We joke that our school had a curse going on with this school because more than a decade ago, one student went there from our high school and then transferred to UGA after a semester. The following year, the SAME thing happened.
And then, they didn’t accept anyone from our (small private) school for like 10 years – until last year. 
(That kid is a band friend of my D26’s.)
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LOL, wow! I could have used a monkey!
My wife jokes that I liked the “My Breast Friend” pillow (the one that goes around your waist for feeding) MORE than she did! I could get both of the boys on there and multi-feed!
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I’m in a similar boat for D26. ED1 is out Thursday and her brother is a sophmore at the same school. Very nervous!!!
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DH and I are VERY excited that D26 and S24 will be at the same school- makes things much more convenient for us and they are both excited to be together 
Fingers crossed for your D26!
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She has UGA OOS EA on the 12th, Tennessee OOS EA on the 15th, and UNC-CH IN EA on the 20th. Then we have six in Jan, one mid February and one in March… unless we end up doing two or three for RD after Dec 20th… 
Given her stats, even though an OOS I doubt she is declined outright at UGA with their pool it’s either accept or deferral and I’m guessing its 50/50 probably split for her there.
I anticipate a positive from Tennessee (and perhaps some merit at some point).
She’s definitely in the higher competitive pool (but not elite) for UNC - but that just makes her a coin flip or maybe 60/40 - and now that they’ve changed their EA format to split IN from OOS, I don’t know if it will change the typical Accept / Decline / Waitlist (very small deferral) historicals on EA. Currently this is her first choice, and second isn’t really that close…
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Was hoping D26 would apply ED to the same school as D24. However, she’s choosing a different route for now.
If she doesnt get into ED1, I think she’ll choose the same school as D24 for ED2. Crossing fingers.
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You’ve got a lot coming up in the next two weeks. Stressful.
Good luck to your daugther! I hope UNC works out for her. Would be a nice holiday gift to get an acceptance there.
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We’ve got some EAs coming in this month but none of those are ‘favorites’ – January and February are more interesting months -but honestly, I doubt we know anything until March in our house. Still hoping for some good news in December/January/February though.
Congrats to everyone with happy acceptances, good luck to all the ED folks! 
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According to dates from last year, we potentially have two decisions coming up before the holidays, with one being only via snail mail! But they could arrive in January too.
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We have one fave coming out this week, Clemson.
next week is the big one with the ED school coming out Dec 18 
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Come on cc we need or 
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As I decompress from the mother saga, I am eager to try to get more into the holiday mood. I wold love to hear what your traditions are surrounding holiday festivities. We are pretty low key. We celebrate Hanukkah and Christmas. For Hanukkah we do a family dinner on either the first or second night - traditional brisket, latkes, etc. we light candles and then we do gifts. When the kids were little we did one gift per night, but now we open them all on the night we have dinner and the other nights we only light candles. Works out better with everyone’s evening schedules. S24 is home on break and we will do dinner next Sunday night on the first night. For Christmas we go out to dinner as a family on Christmas Eve to a nice restaurant, then come home for dessert and watch a Christmas movie as a family. Christmas morning I make cinnamon rolls, honey ham and eggs and we eat and open gifts. Then everyone just chills in PJs all day and does what they want. We usually order Chinese food for dinner on the 25th. Growing up as a kid with divorced parents, I never got to wake up in my house Christmas morning because I alternated houses every year. On my dad’s year we traveled to rural IL to be with his family and on my mom’s year we travelled to Puerto Rico to be with hers. I always wished for a traditional Christmas where I could stay in PJs all day and enjoy my gifts. So I made it a priority to give that to my kids. Maybe in a few years we will travel that week, but for now we will continue to enjoy being home 
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This seems like a real early bird group! Is anyone else’s kid still working on RD apps? Mine is - but she also has a ton of applications out - so it’s more a question of just a large number of apps vs. postponing applications. Also - my daughter discovered a few more colleges she really liked -so she tossed those on the list! At this point -I’m really glad I have a spreadsheet -otherwise, I might forget all the places she has applied to.
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We are dual religion so also celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas. Where we are from, Hanukkah gifts were never a thing so all gifts are Christmas only.
We are traveling this year to spend Christmas with my sister in law in Europe (who has not spent Christmas with anyone in the family in years). We are however more often home for Christmas than away. Go by my husband’s Xmas tradition as I have none lol. Xmas tree is decorated by husband and kids (now just c26 at home). Gifts are opened Christmas morning and then family all pitches in for a big lunch - traditionally husband does meat, kids sides, me dessert. Well traditionally my husband grew up with a gammon on the table but none of the rest of us eat pork so now often it willl be something like rack of lamb.
For Hanukkah we will have some decorations around, gelt, latkes, usually go to a public menorah lighting and with all good intentions start lighting our own menorah but I don’t think there’s once that we’ve managed to remember every single night
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we are right there with you! Also we’ve ended up with some very improvised menorah situations over the years (like birthday candles stuck in a banana).
We don’t do Christmas, but we also don’t make a huge big deal of Hanukkah (we’ll have the latkes and so on, and usually have a party, but we don’t do presents… that feels too “Christmasy” to us). The other holidays are more important to us.
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Hanukkah is super minor where we come from and I think it’s just very differently done in the US. It was quite something seeing the equivalent of Xmas sweaters, displays in all the stores etc when we moved here. For sure, a pesach seder and first night Rosh Hashanah are much more important for celebrating. We usually do breaking of the fast at a neighbor.
what an image. Just call your local Chabad and they’ll bring you one of those “Hanukkah to go” boxes with a disposable menorah and some candles!
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Yeah, the “holiday season” means spring and fall to us 
I think Hanukkah became a big deal in the US because of the competition with Christmas. Families didn’t want their kids to feel left out when everyone else had a huge holiday. And many non Jews don’t even know that we have holidays other than Hanukkah.
The banana menorah was fun! 
Now I remember, it was during Covid and we had some kind of zoom party with friends and some of them did not have a regular menorah in the house… so we all decided to do the banana menorah in solidarity
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