<p>So its late August, I browse the threads on CC. It seems everyone is in the midst of sending their kids off to college or beginning the search for just the right school for their high school student. I’m sitting here waiting for my son to come home from his summer internship and begin a month of vacation before heading back to school at the end of September. Actually he comes home tomorrow but it is tomorrow in Japan and soon he’ll be getting on a plane and be headed this way. Ah, I should be cleaning house, grocery shopping, setting up the guest room. My son’s room is ready but his girlfriend will arrive on Sunday. I’ve never met her and my son has never even told me her name - she emailed me and asked if she could come and visit. And of course, today a pipe broke and water flooded the family room (I do think there must be an unwritten rule that plumbing will fail right before visitors arrive, I don’t know how many times that it has happened to me.) </p>
<p>Anyone else waiting for summer to begin? I can’t wait to see my son. and am feeling a tad anxious that in just a couple of days the girlfriend arrives and everything changes again. Then all too soon, he’ll be headed back to college for his senior year (unless of course, he has decided to do a fifth year to finish up a second major). Then I guess I’ll have to swear off CC once that diploma is in his hands (oh, but what if he decides on grad school?).</p>
<p>Here in SE Michigan we are all waiting for summer to begin, at least from a weather standpoint. Today it is raining and in the low 70s. This has been a cool, wet June-August season, normally known as summer.</p>
<p>Here I’m hoping that summer ends soon; or, to be more precise, the heat wave will end.
S is now in his new apartment, several hundred miles away. I just went up to his room and saw how much stuff he forgot to pack. sigh. I feel envious of you, Oaklandmom, for having your S for another month!
We came home and immediately confronted a plumbing problem; it turned out to be minor, and I can only hope the bill will be, as well.</p>
<p>S2 stayed at sch. for both sessions of summer sch. He was here for 3 short weeks then went back to begin Fall classes last week. So I guess summer is over in that regard and we begin looking forward to Fall break.</p>
<p>I think the story of the son and the nameless girlfriend inviting herself via email – and the flooded family room – needs more information! Somehow it just has the ring of a sit-com (or a romantic comedy) waiting to happen!</p>
<p>Well, this is Episode 2 of the Oakland Mom & Son sitcom. Episode 1 was last year, when Oakland Mom and S drove down to LA in their old clunker and Oakland Mom went on The Price is Right. I’d forgive anything to a son who tells his mom that she got on “because you’re pretty.”</p>
<p>Summer came and went in a flash. Son was on 9 pm flight from his CA internship and we were off to Pittsburgh the very next morning. I’d be sadder, but he looked so happy in his new quarters in Pittsburgh. He’s sharing a house, we only met one of the roommates, but the living room floor was covered with computer parts, the dining room table was covered with Magic cards and D&D figures, the upstairs floor had computer cable duct taped to it. He’s clearly with his clan.</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to hearing about the girlfriend! Enjoy your summer!</p>
<p>I had the same reaction as Oldfort–does the son know he has a gf and does he want her to visit? When our sons are involved, her name is pretty much the only thing we hear.</p>
<p>I’ve got to run this morning to a docent training (figured it was good to keep myself busy while my son is in the air between Tokyo and home). Somewhere on cc is a thread about the girlfriend - I found out about her doing a google search for my son’s name and found a steamy conversation between them on line a year or two ago. But DS would just smile when I mentioned “girlfriend”(though he did figure a way to get the steamy conversation deleted - I suggested it might not be good to have floating about when he starts looking for work). Spring break this year he told me he was “busy” and wouldn’t be coming home. I somehow deduced it was because girlfriend was coming. Note to oldfort and hm5, when gf emailed me, I emailed DS and asked if we could now use her name, after all it would be pretty awkward if he continued to act as if she didn’t exist when she was visiting. He agreed. He’s also flew up to visit her a week or two before he left for Japan. </p>
<p>bookworm, I think of you often. How is your son doing? </p>
<p>As for Japan, so far I understand that he’s worn a kimono and learned to drink beer - he’ll be explaining to me what “shot gunning beer” is when he gets home. I guess my 20 year old will be set when he turns 21 since if nothing else, he learned to drink while in Japan. </p>
<p>ah, plumbers, there’s probably more of a story in there - somehow, one broken pipe and the plumber says I should replace the water heater and the shut off valve outside the house. I guess in this economy, even plumbers need work. </p>
<p>I’m sure I’ll have more to say once the girlfriend arrives and of course, when DS arrives, I might even learn what it was like working in Japan, (I’m assuming he worked after all he did pay for the beer,saki and plum wine). But did he think of bringing mom a little something from Japan?</p>