<p>^^^ LOL bunsenburner!!!</p>
<p>It’s called a form letter. ;)</p>
<p>Love the Valentine idea.</p>
<p>2 of my boys were/are so known for losing jackets that I now periodically make a trip to Goodwill and find a couple of cheap (but nice!) jackets for them to take to school & on trips. So I don’t care if they lose them.</p>
<p>I learned my lesson after S lost a good jacket on his first day in Israel. At the airport, in fact! </p>
<p>Same S is going on an AP Euro trip in the spring. Maybe he’ll take <em>two</em> jackets. :D</p>
<p>Living in HK, I sent Chinese New Year letters. Similar timing to Valentine letters. I find the biggest obstacle to getting the cards and so on done is CC. Easier to post about it than get on task!</p>
<p>Bunsenburner - that idea is patentable! Go for it.</p>
<p>Jym626, your pm box is full.</p>
<p>“Does your son have absent minded professor style ADD perchance?”</p>
<p>Maybe! (but only about things that I care about!)</p>
<p>How do I do that cool quotey thing?</p>
<p>Cool quotey thing: Type
[quote]
the cool quote you want to highlight[/ quote].
BUT, do not put the extra space in between "/"and “quote” at the end. Turns out to be
In true cc tradition, then you “pass it on.” :D</p>
<p>Thanks, jmmom! What are you drinking, this round is on me.</p>
<p>mommusic,
Hairspray on ink stains followed by a trip to the washing machine will remove ball point pen marks. (Learned this when I worked for a consulting firm and we were constantly marking up our good clothes with ink.)</p>
<p>Man, I could go for an apple cider with apple or cinnamon schnapps this evening. Just park myself in front of the fireplace (remote controlled-propane tank – no work involved) with a good book and the football game.</p>
<p>Oh don;t feel badly about late Christmas cards. I recently came upon a batch of 10 thank-you notes, handwritten by S, from his Bar Mitzvah presents 5 years ago.
He wrote the notes but I was supposed to do the envelopes, because he was 13 and I was so weak I agreed to the compromise at the very end of the list. Then we moved and I misplaced the task. No excuses but that’s what happened. </p>
<p>Now what on earth do I say to these people…here is your latest thank you note EVER? My S doesn’t even know. </p>
<p>I’m not worried about being embarassed, I just want to straighten out my S’s reputation. </p>
<p>I want to crawl under a rock. Am ready to try alcohol now.</p>
<p>p3t,
I’d stick a note explaining just what you said in the envelopes and send them out. (But tell your S first.) I’ll bet the recipients will get a kick out of it – and of course, forgive you completely.</p>
<p>Speaking of B/M notes – DS wrote <em>me</em> a note after all the festivities and thank-you notes were written. I absolutely cherish it. Every time I pull it out I cry.</p>
<p>p3t that is HILARIOUS.</p>
<p>And it brings up a very good reason never to go through old boxes or piles. NEVER EVER.</p>
<p>Counting Down, my favorite memory of my S bar mitzvah was him weeping when I gave him my speech/blessing. Afterwards he said: “Yep, my first act as a man: cried!”</p>
<p>I’d mail them out with a mea culpa. No big deal. I’ve sent out Christmas cards in pairs when I’ve found ones I’d never managed to mail the year before even though I’d addressed the envelopes. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>A little wintry weather story for everyone, to warm especially the cockles of the motherly hearts that never get calls from their male-children who are off at college now…</p>
<p>Recently TFSFH has been <em>calling</em> now and then! “Just to chat.” (?!) Methinks as it gets closer to holiday time, he’s feeling just a mite more homesick and ready to be done with finals and GONE (<– tomorrow). So this afternoon I’m at my desk and my phone rings. The number tells me it’s his cell phone.</p>
<p>Me: “Hey there! How are ya?”
TFSFH: “Hey! (pant, pant) So hold on a sec… (pant, pant) Right, OK, so…”
(this sounds as if he’s outside and walking)
TFSFH: “So, yeah. So listen, even though I love you (pant, pant), and I miss you all (pant, pant), and I love California and all, I gotta tell you, I’m still having a really (pant) good (pant) time here. Want proof?”
Me: “Um…”
TFSFH: “OK, here goes! (shuffle, shuffle) WHEEEEEEEEE!!! OOOOOH Yeah, whoooooooo hoooooooo yeahh!!! OOOOOOH still going, still going, oh man, oh man, wheeeeeee!!! AH! Ooops, hit a tree. (shuffle shuffle) OK I just went down a really big hill on a cafeteria tray now I gotta hike back up, so, see ya, love ya, bye!”</p>
<p>(click)</p>
<p>He called me so I could listen to him sled down a big hill on a cafeteria tray. A phonecall to bring joy to a mother’s heart.</p>
<p>How a 6’6" guy fit on a cafeteria tray is a mystery to me, as is how he sledded down with his cell phone in one hand without totally crashing. But I am <em>NOT</em> complaining!!</p>
<p>/me is smiling this afternoon. :)</p>
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<p>Mootivation! Also, who else is on the other cafeteria trays. It’s almost always a group sport. So great that he shared the moment with you.</p>
<p>My D was so excited the first snow in Ohio, not for herself, because she’d been living in snow her whole life. </p>
<p>But she ran into the rooms of her California and Texas friends to throw them snowballs in bed, then pull them out into it to see their reactions. Great fun!!! </p>
<p>((BTW, thanks for help with my errant thank you notes. I don’t want to let another 5 years go by before saying that.))</p>
<p>Isn’t it surreal to have your ‘baby’ be 6’6"? Mine is 6’1" and I still can’t wrap my mind around it.</p>
<p>Great story, mootie!</p>
<p>When we were in college, the winter of the “Big Snow,” when all the streets were closed and absolutely iced over, was the winter that future DH and I both had slick nylon outer parkas. We could slide down hilly streets on our backs! </p>
<p>Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :D</p>
<p>We suffer their sufferings more than they do.</p>
<p>And I think we enjoy their joys more than they do.</p>
<p>Great phone call, mootie. Enjoy!</p>
<p>Enjoying 3 days of peace and quiet. Older kids not home yet. Youngest and Dad off snowboarding. Just me and the dogs.
Spent 4 hours in the 13 yr olds bedroom. Filled 3 hefty garbage bags with trash. Have 5 shopping bags for the house cleaner to bring to her church. Could spend another day in there.
Had my first introduction to Schnapps the other day. Peach. It was amazingly good!
Now need to try peppermint in coffee.</p>