<p>hmmm…I like the idea of a month of me!!! I was actually born on Mother’s Day and I used to tell my mom that I was the perfect present!;)</p>
<p>Hi Ladies,
I’ve mostly been checking out the waitlist threads–the chances aren’t very high for my daughter but I do it out of pure habit at this point. The school she declined the waitlist for seems to be having the most movement (darn!)
2Blue, we haven’t received any requests yet to send in pictures–is anybody else in the same boat? And what about the favorite, the pre-college physical!</p>
<p>The birthday cake sounds lovely, but my intended outfit for the post-prom pictures party (the one the parents go to after the pre-prom pictures) won’t fit if I indulge.</p>
<p>When posting earlier I didn’t realize NMinnesota had a birthday today. Happy Birthday to you and all celebrating one this month!</p>
<p>Kathyc, I don’t think my son’s paperwork said anything about a precollege physical. My son has seen a doctor way too often this year as it is, so I’m feeling like he is pretty well checked over. At his last visit, we did ask about getting vaccinations this summer. I want him to get a tetanus/whooping cough booster and a meningitis vaccine. Good luck to your daughter with the wait lists she is waiting on.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday NMinn! Oh, and a Happy B’day to cottonwood’s “offspring unit” as well…lol. </p>
<p>Thanks for the well wishes Skygirl - it was sweet of you to remember us!</p>
<p>Definitely get your kids the meningitis vaccine (have heard too many horror stories) and make sure their other vaccinations are up to date. The dorms are breeding grounds for germs. I don’t think either of my kids’ schools required a physical beyond my filling out the medical forms…and proof of required vaccinations. I remember my D agonizing over how to fill out the housing form. In her case they clearly ignored it, since she had a pretty miserable 1st quarter roommate experience. But all worked out in the end since she has had a double as a single the entire 3rd quarter…in her words, “sweet!” </p>
<p>For those following our “Where’s Waldo” saga, S has arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, cleared passport control and customs and met his translator/greeter. Phone worked, but he said he was having network issues, so I’m not holding out great hope for regular communication. I do know there’s working computer/internet connection (his professor e-mailed him from there), so hopefully he’ll check in that way. In any case, he’ll be back in Israel on June 14…it’s only a month!</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to all the May moms and May kids. Taurus. I am feeling bullish!</p>
<p>runnersmom - I’m happy to hear that your S arrived in Uzbekistan safely. You’ll have to keep us posted on his exciting adventures this month.</p>
<p>Good Morning All! I’m shaking off the sugar high from yesterday and getting ready for a scrapbooking workshop today! Love it!</p>
<p>runnersmom…glad S arrived safely! What an exciting time for him.</p>
<p>D2 nervous as heck for AP Eng today. Will be glad to be done with it. It is a beautiful day today! Worked a track meet yesterday in the rain so the sun feels wonderful. Have a good day everyone, I’m off to work on school albums!</p>
<p>NorthMinnesota, is your D2 done with APs after this? My S has officially finished all school until graduation. Sleeping late and “hanging out”. He seems already a bit at loose ends, truly in-between trapezes before his summer job starts.</p>
<p>What is everyone else’s HS seniors doing this time of year?</p>
<p>No HS senior this time around, but our HS deals with the month between APs and graduation (we live in NY, can’t graduate until after the Regents exams are over…late June) by having a program called Senior Options. Starting at the beginning of second semester the kids develop a plan (with a HS faculty adviser/mentor) for a project or internship that they will do, full time, from May 1 (or after their last AP exam) to the second week in June. It can be research, classic internships, learning a new skill…almost anything. At the end, during the 2 week period before graduation, each student makes an oral presentation to a group of students, their mentor and parents. It can be anything from an absolutely phenomenal experience, to a way to keep them out of trouble during that period, but in any case it fills the time in a theoretically productive way. My kids did a variety of things including a film on student apathy, research on the development and use of biodiesel fuel and an internship with a speech and language pathologist. It seems to work here.</p>
<p>And LIMom…he called at 4am our time to say he’d reached his ultimate destination and was making lunch before going out to the site. Knowing my kid, this could be the last communication for awhile! At least we found out the phone worked from there.</p>
<p>After his last AP exam yesterday, my S is footloose and fancy-free–except that he still has to go to school through the first week of June. I don’t know why their senior year is structured this way. He does have an internship to go to, and a couple of his teachers are doing relaxing, entertaining things (movies, baseball stats, short story and poetry writing). The seniors are mostly acting goofy. His afterschool activity yesterday was group tree-climbing. It’s all fun. I wonder if he will clean his room now?</p>
<p>Good morning everyone…</p>
<p>r-mom, looking forward Tashkent details.</p>
<p>Harriet MW, just one son–first year at Univ of Chicago.</p>
<p>I think my S’s school doesn’t do these internships and such because they want the seniors out of there while the underclasses are still working and taking exams. But it is killing S2, who is a 10th grader at same school, that he is still slogging away for another few weeks while big bro is footloose. Can’t wait for S1’s job to start.</p>
<p>runnersmom, you need to do a travelogue to keep us updated about your s’s trip.</p>
<p>Cottonwood, his final destination was Samarkand. They’re excavating a Sogdian fortress…wish i knew what that meant! And is your first year bemoaning the fact that they’re still in school, like mine is? She’s finding it hard to talk to all her friends who are already home for the summer and she’s still taking midterms.</p>
<p>Acme, whatever details I get, I’m more than happy to share! But knowing this kid, they’ll be few and far between until he gets home.</p>
<p>It’s a beautiful day here…hope everyone is enjoying the weather in their neck of the woods.</p>
<p>acme: My HS senior son has one more AP test to go, tomorrow. He still has classes for another week until the graduation practice day. He graduates the day after Memorial Day. There is nothing much happening in any of his classes, as the teachers are completely worn out and the kids have no motivation. They are given time in class to finish up big projects, and since my S finished them all long ago, he gets to do pretty much whatever he wants. He’ll only have one final exam, calculus. He has a few local scholarship interviews and luncheons, with the senior awards assembly coming up in a week.</p>
<p>We got him his first laptop a couple of weeks ago and he is enjoying setting that up. He is doing some programming, which is something he never had time to do until now. All is calm and nice in our house.</p>
<p>runnersmom - I guess you’re going to have to get used to getting phone calls at odd times. It’s worth it though, I’m sure. </p>
<p>I don’t have a senior yet, but the seniors I know are working on their senior projects which have to be handed in at the end of the month. I’m not sure if there is a presentation or not, but I know it involves an internship of 15 hours, maybe more for honors students, but I’m not sure. I’m not clear on how it all works since D hasn’t gone through it yet.</p>
<p>NMinn, enjoy your scrapbooking, and good luck to your D on her English AP!</p>
<p>Sogdian fortress excavation? I have to look that up.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard any complaints yet about still being in school, they start
late and go to mid June. Then he has a two week housesitting job.</p>
<p>Both of mine are finished with AP exams; they both have half-days next week due to standardized testing (S2 only has to take English). The following week is senior exams, and then there are two weeks from then til graduation. S2 finishes school the day before big brother’s graduation. </p>
<p>We are then taking a quick vacation; S1 is flying back early so he can start work on 6/16, and S2, DH and I are staying a few days longer. Bless those frequent flyer miles!!!</p>
<p>Back in the day, there was ‘youth fare’, under (18? 21?) flew half price.</p>
<p>cottonwood…I remember that youth fare well…those were the days. And we had People Express, too. Could fly for like $19 or $29 various East Coast cities like Burlington, VT.</p>