<p>Ah thanks. You would htink with this being child #2 I would remember…but not so much.</p>
<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I’ve calmed down and H said nary a word last night. He agreed to wait until Sunday. Meanwhile I’m stocking up on the amo and am preparing a blitz while she’s at prom Saturday night. Hopefully by Sunday, I’ll have him straightened out!!!</p>
<p>My prayers are also with the young man who’s gone missing…so scary!!! That poor family!!!</p>
<p>jym626-- thank you for enlightening me!</p>
<p>2forcollege - hope it all goes well this weekend for you!</p>
<p>2forcollege, I quickly checked posts this morning and read about you stocking up the ammo for your blitz while your daughter’s at prom. So, of course, all morning I’ve had running through my head:</p>
<p>And the man in the back said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said boy I want to warn you
It’ll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz </p>
<p>Here’s hoping it all goes well. (And I bet I’ll have company now humming that song!) </p>
<p>university1, congratulations on your son reaching a decision! What a heartache with Nick. That’s every parent’s worst nightmare.</p>
<p>mountains, I’m glad you’ve got it narrowed down to two schools. Progress!</p>
<p>kitkat, are you still waiting on a FA appeal?</p>
<p>I just talked with my son. He says he’s is feeling more and more that the second school he visited is the right one for him. The one he’s at now just feels too big for his taste. He said he’s going to take full advantage of the visit though to go and see plays, etc. and is hoping he can meet some of the other admitted kids from our state just to get the chance to talk with them and find out how they’re faring with this whole decision process.</p>
<p>Well - the school that we did FA appeal - we also did merit appeal. We got shot down on the merit appeal (NO SURPISE - this was their big idea). Haven’t heard on FA appeal, and have followed up with email and voicemail. Not promising IMO. In the meantime, I spoke with school #2 - they SUGGESTED I appeal based on another offer we had outstanding. So I sent that off today. School #2 very well may have moved into the lead for a variety of other reasons too. </p>
<p>Good for your son - I do wish my guy would have gone back for a second looksee at these schools. </p>
<p>In the meantime, my #1 son IS ON HIS WAY HOME FOR THE SUMMER WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I am so excited! He knows he is coming into the final countdown frenzy…</p>
<p>dragon: I’d have catered if someone had told me about this place!</p>
<p>university: congratulations on your schoolwork; that’s great!</p>
<p>And how awful for Nicholas’s family; my thoughts and prayers are with them. I’ve been following the story of another missing 18-year-old for far, far longer than any child should be missing. I hope Nicholas is safe and found soon. Right now, for example, would be good.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m old; I’ve already forgotten, though I just read through the posts, who wants bigger cookies! Regardless of who it is, you got 'em! Bigger cookies are now on the table!</p>
<p>In addition to oatmeal chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies, I made sugar cookies. These are the sugar cookies that even <em>I</em> like, and I don’t as a rule like sugar cookies! These are soooo good (recipe off the 'net; I love the web!), it’s entirely too easy to eat a dozen of them, and then want to keep eating them even though your stomach hurts! Yeah, that good. Makes one think the Roman vomitorium was a good idea. (Sorry. But it’s true!)</p>
<p>I took all these to school this morning, all but a few. 
S took the bus, lest he be 1.) seen with his mother (oh, the horror); and 2.) required to carry something/be useful.</p>
<p>I’m on day 3 of a headache; I stayed home from work today as a result. Figured if my head is going to explode, it might as well happen at home. We have red Turkish carpets; no one will notice.</p>
<p>Okay, I think that’s enough of me for right now! I suspect I’ve killed any appetite anyone might have had. My gift to those trying to lose weight! :D</p>
<p>Ah! It was mountains who wanted bigger cookies! You got 'em, cookie, as soon as your appetite returns!</p>
<p>I forgot to post this from the latest update from the little girl’s mom: "Thank you for all the prayers and strength- we can feel them and they are keeping us going. " That was from yesterday; haven’t heard anything today, and I take that as a good sign, especially since yesterday’s news was good.</p>
<p>Now, we need good news about Nicholas.</p>
<p>Still praying for the little girl, and now for Nicholas as well. </p>
<p>Owlice, please take something for your headache, and give the baking a rest - it sounds like you need to take it easy. How about if I bake something for you instead? Any favorites? I can’t promise anything fancy, but my brownies usually go over well. So do my cookies, but you’ve already got those covered.</p>
<p>2blue - I was thinking the same thing - Ballroom Blitz - while reading 2forcollege’s post! And yes, I am humming along with you.</p>
<p>Good luck to you 2forcollege, and to you as well, kitkat82.</p>
<p>owlice, thanks for the bigger cookies, and unfortunately, no visual is graphic enough for me to lose my appetite.</p>
<p>Good luck to all. S told me today he is 95% sure he wants to go to Colby. I swear he is using the 5% to torture Mom. Payback time, I guess. :)</p>
<p>LIMOMOF2, thanks! And I have taken stuff for the headache; subsides to a dull roar with meds. Usually. 
I’m used to these. The headaches, I mean; I get them often. (Allergies and migraines, and sometimes, both at once, oh, joy and rapture!) Migraines don’t knock me flat (usually) like some people’s migraines do, and for that, I’m thankful. Allergies don’t bother me except when they make my head hurt. (I’m used to congestion. Traffic and nasal.)</p>
<p>I’m lying on a sofa, so am taking it easy; thanks! Thinking of baking brownies, though, now that you’ve mentioned them… :D</p>
<p>(No, actually, I’m going to go take a nap.)</p>
<p>mountains, you’re welcome, and yeah, I’m with you on the no loss of appetite thing. </p>
<p>Yay! for the 95%!! Better than 50%, isn’t it? :)</p>
<p>kitkat, I hope you get the FA result you want!</p>
<p>2for, give 'im heck!!</p>
<p>2blue, I don’t know that song, and at the moment, that’s good because I don’t need an earworm right now. Maybe later!</p>
<p>Off to snooze… back later, maybe for afternoon tea!</p>
<p>wow…I was thinking ballroom blitz too and have had that tune running in the back of my mind all afternoon!</p>
<p>Re FA - it will all work out for the best. I think he prefers one school. I prefer the other. They are pretty darn comparable. I think he is starting to see that.</p>
<p>Owlie - good luck with that headache!</p>
<p>Mountains - 95% sounds like a DECISION TO ME! GO BABY GO!</p>
<p>kitkat82 - Yes, it does sound like Colby. I need more stamps anyway, so I don’t mind the trip to the Post Office next week; and no, I am not sticking it in our mailbox for pickup. A few years ago, some bored kids torched mailboxes in our neighborhood! Now, that visual of the YES reply card going up in flames is enough to make me lose my appetite.</p>
<p>With #1 son, we ended up fed-exing it. Stupid in hindsite. I will be sending certified mail if there is no online option to do it. </p>
<p>Speaking of #1 son, he IS HOME and his car is unpacked and strewn over the living room! Oh goody! Glad to have him home not so glad about the tidying up! I hope to get out of here shortly to go see him!</p>
<p>Hi everyone. Back from a jaunt into the city to meet a CC mom from CA whose daughter also attends Barnard. We sat outside at my favorite restaurant in the Barnard area, and now my nose is sunburned. But just a teeny tiny bit. Time for sunscreen.</p>
<p>Owlice: Ever think of opening a bakery? There’s a great one in the movie STRANGER THAN FICTION, a wonderful movie I highly recommend. The scenes with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are priceless.</p>
<p>Sounds like decisions are being made right and left. There’s a drink made to taste like oatmeal cookies. I suggest we all have a round.</p>
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<p>No, because if I did, I’d weigh 500 pounds, minimum!</p>
<p>Am intrigued about a drink made to taste like oatmeal cookies! Details, please!!!</p>
<p>I’ll have to ask D, next time I speak to her. I think her major in London is cocktails. There it is perfectly legal for a 20 year old to drink, and like Proust, I think she was “In search of lost time.”</p>
<p>She has been to the most intriguing watering holes.</p>
<p>Look what I found!</p>
<p>[CocktailDB:</a> The Internet Cocktail Database | Oatmeal Cookie Cocktail](<a href=“http://www.cocktaildb.com/recipe_detail?id=4753]CocktailDB:”>http://www.cocktaildb.com/recipe_detail?id=4753)</p>
<p>owlice: That must be what she had. She said they were wonderful and did taste like oatmeal cookies. I think they are the perfect thing to serve in the vigil lounge.</p>
<p>500 pounds? A sacrifice you have to make so the world can benefit.</p>
<p>I love Google! mythmom, I’ve never heard of such a drink. This sounds like something I need to serve H some day; I think he’d get a kick out of it. (This assumes he doesn’t know this drink; he might, as he <em>was</em> young once. )</p>