<p>Don’t ya just hate it when you look around and realize you’re in the middle of a brawl. Sheesh. ;)</p>
<p>Well, I’ll have a drink because D just sent off her first college application and it was sort of a breeze. Her top-choice school unexpectedly sent her a “select scholar” application in the mail which encouraged her to apply EA, waived the application fee AND waived an essay. She just had to fill it out online and write a personal statement (which ended up being essay length anyhow, but it was cool because the idea of a brief personal statement got her started and before she knew it, she’d written an essay… hee hee). I helped her get the test scores sent, and she’ll deliver the request for transcripts and letter of rec to the counselor tomorrow. This is the college we all think is the best fit for her, so we might know shortly after Nov. 15 if she’s in. Very cool. And I’m remembering that labor/delivery with her was much easier than with S, too. A toast to 2nd born children, I say!</p>
<p>p.s. SBMom, that is so lovely! I smiled like this: :)</p>
<p>That reminds me of video projects my kids had to make over the years for school. They would write a script and need to film it and need “actors” and sometimes the “actor” needed to be an adult and so we’d start filming in the living room and for the life of me, I could not stop cracking up and they would have to do so many retakes and get mad at me as I could not keep a straight face. In fact, it wasn’t just when I was “in” the film but sometimes I was the one filming them and I had trouble not laughing. It was my weak point. </p>
<p>Your son sounds like a keeper. I hope he says the same at 17 (though, well, teens talk differently than 10 year olds!)</p>
<p>Oh, SB. How do I combine an LOL with an Awwww. Because that is what we have there with your Littlest. </p>
<p>Reminds me of those days… oh so long ago… when DS (he of the Cone of Silence) climbed into my bed to say (and I have no idea what even got him thinking about college… he was about 8 at the time) “I don’t think I want to go to college. I wouldn’t ever want to be that far away from you.” :o</p>
<p>cross posted with jmmom… I would LOVE to borrow your cone of silence as long as my S could fit inside. I would pay. Maybe he can be a manny for me next summer??</p>
<p>Sounds like a valuable enough payoff that it might be worth my worming my way into his life to get that Cone of Silence thing going… You know, I am in your time zone part of the year :p.</p>
<p>I think a 50/50 skill exchange may be in order. I’ll play 'enry 'iggins with jmson and get that sucker chatting. You can teach my kids to quiet down. This could be good.</p>
<p>Wow. I just got back from being away all weekend (yay for Parents’ Weekend). I started reading about the awkward social situation thing. It hurt my brain after about 4 pages. Decided to stop reading (having 2 girls who sometimes lapsed into a bickering stand-off, sometimes I just had to say, “STOP IT!!”). A question for the marmot choreography for the a capella group…can marmots snap their little marmot fingers–how about dancing in unison like the Platters or similar 60’ish groups? Now that’s something we should be thinking about!</p>
<p>BTW, my CC cover was “blown”. A guy in Astrogirl’s dorm was talking to her and asked her if she was majoring in astronomy/physics. Yes… he told her about this college forum that he watches (called College Confidential, of course!), and told her about this woman who posted as Astrophysicsmom. Astrogirl laughed heartily, and claimed me as her mother. Oh dear. I don’t think I’ve said anything that would incriminate her in any way, but I’ll sure watch from now on!</p>
<p>I actually am feeling very sad right now…I have often debated people on this site, and no matter what, been able to move from thread to thread, especially this one and the debates or arguments or whatever were contained</p>
<p>Wow, just wow…I don’t feel safe in this thread, which is what it was for…how sad is that</p>
<p>CGM…please do not mischaracterize the posts here like it feels you were doing there. The only thing I have read on THIS thread (that’s right, READ…not GUESSED or ASSUMED) are people saying that the other thread wasn’t making sense to them, was getting argumentative, and giving them a headache. That’s all people have posted here. Nobody is mentioning anything more than that, I don’t think. It’s true that for some of us, the thread was getting confusing, and some posts didn’t make sense to us, and we didn’t get what we were reading. That thread was being referenced as a “thread” here, and not any particular MEMBERS.</p>
<p>and this was AFTER her post to me on THAT thread, you carried it over and toasted her post to me, which was very personal and then pretend it was just a reference to the thread is laughable</p>