<p>Thanks again to all of you. This truly is the hardest thing I have ever experienced. S called yesterday before dinner with the usual of coming home. Wanting a plane ticket by Wednesday. Then he went to dinner and didn’t call immediately afterward which was a good sign. </p>
<p>He sent an e-mail with a link to a cell phone that he wanted us to get because there is no signal for his current carrier. In my mind I immediately thought that he must be planning to stay if he wanted a cell phone. I e-mailed back that the phone he picked out was a bit pricey and he should continue to research. I also threw in a few specific questions about classes and dinner and roommate and he sent this long - NORMAL -HAPPY-TYPICAL email back. No different than had he been sitting on the sofa talking. He is such a funny kid and he had his normal jokes through out the e-mail. He said he ate about 1000 Milano cookies and feels “a little better”.</p>
<p>All is not perfect. He did call 10 minutes before study time and ask if we could just consider talking about him coming home during parents weekend. I told him we would only talk about it if the issue wasn’t coming home because he is homesick. If he had valid reasons for wanting to come we would talk. I consider Monday a success - he went from coming home Wednesday to talking about it at the end of October.</p>