<p>Getting close!! Where is everyone headed and when are you leaving?</p>
<p>ldgirl’s classes at UNC start early next week and dorm move-in is Sunday, so she and I are leaving Houston for Chapel Hill by car this Friday. My husband will fly up and meet us at the hotel Saturday. (My son’s h.s. registration is Saturday a.m., so dh will take care of that little detail and then grab a flight.) </p>
<p>I have to say…sophomore year is MUCH easier so far. ;)</p>
<p>Freshman move-in at my daughter’s school, Cornell, is this Friday. We’re driving up on Thursday and staying in a motel in a town about 30 miles away, where the hotel room rates are cheaper.</p>
<p>S’s orientation and move-in is Sat.</p>
<p>DD is leaving Sept 14. Her classes start on the 17th. DS has to be at grad school by Sept 7. We’re taking him there the week before Labor Day.</p>
<p>Heading to Cornell on Thursday night. Move in is on Friday. See you there, Marian!</p>
<p>Still waiting for DD to start packing . . .</p>
<p>DS, a soph. at Cornell, is going back this saturday, while the rest of the family goes on vacation!! It sure is much easier this year!!</p>
<p>DS #1 left yesterday to start his post-grad life and new job, DS #2 leaves to drive back with a friend to Wash U on Friday the 24th and we take DD for move-in to Chicago on September 15. It’s like slowly pulling off a bandage!! Only kidding…(sort of!)</p>
<p>We fly east (due east) a week from tomorrow with the D, who has dorm access first thing Thursday the 23rd, followed by a full day of freshman orientation stuff. Parents are respectfully requested to leave by late afternoon. We’ll spend the day before taking care of local purchases, so if we miss anything, she’ll have to figure it out on her own.</p>
<p>I turn around and fly east (and to the south) again with S#1 the following Monday, 27th, to help him get settled for junior year. As was pointed out somewhere else, the convenience of a parent with a rental car and a hotel room is what it boils down to in this case. (Number of factors collided to just make it simpler if a parent goes along for this one; fortunate that we can do it and S#1 is greatly relieved.)</p>
<p>Come back home and kick some serious behind to get S#2 going into soph year of high school. He starts right after Labor Day. Lucky fellow gets all of our attention, for the most part, from here on out!!</p>
<p>Already there…move in was the 11th.</p>
<p>D has been at band camp at Tennessee since Friday. She moves into her dorm on the 16th. Everybody else move’s in the 18th.</p>
<p>We leave on the 6th for the 2 day drive to get DD moved into apt. Pick up DH at OHare on the 13th and drive to Minneapolis for niece’s wedding. Drive back to Chicago so DH can see the apt and meet the roommate. Will probably head home on the 17th or 18th.
DD hasn’t been home since the end of June. Packing/shopping will start on the 23rd when she gets home.
Classes start the following week.</p>
<p>Flying to San Diego Wed. morning to spend 4 days of a long-promised 25th wedding anniversary trip there, including this youngest S. Then driving up to Orange County (Chapman U.) to see the Pacific for first time ever. Move-in is on Tuesday; many meetings on Wednesday, then we fly home as two. I’ve likened it to the Biblical Abraham descending Mount Moriah with one less person in tow (after almost sacrificing Isaac up there), but my D doesn’t like that analogy at all. Very very excited!</p>
<p>We leave Wednesday (day after tomorrow) for the drive to Ohio. That’s assuming we get everything bought and packed - no guarantees. Will stay with H’s brother’s family, 45 mins from school. Move-in is on Thursday. Convocation on Friday. H and I drive home Saturday. Long lonely drive.</p>
<p>But S2 just got back in town last night, and won’t leave till early Sept. So it’s not going to hit me fully for another month.</p>
<p>We’ll follow D to Houston on the 24th, make a couple of big item purchases (new office chair to replace the one she had last year, mini-freezer to share with roomies), move her in on the 25th.</p>
<p>Of course, this all depends on the ever changing tropical weather forecasts H loves to follow.</p>
<p>Yikes, I love coastal living :(.</p>
<p>S doesn’t start school until Oct. 1 - it feels like the summer has barely begun! But my thoughts are with all of you who have already sent your S or D off or will be sending them soon.</p>
<p>D leaves day after tomorrow for pre-orientation trip. We follow in a week with 4 large suitcases (and a carryon for our own use!). Fly to sister’s house (nearest major airport) to borrow a car, drive 4 hours, check in to hotel, meet her sweaty and bug-bitten little self in the morning to move in. After another night and some parent activities (and a chance for Dad to finally see where all our money is going), we drive 4 hours back with all the empty suitcases and backpack, then fly home.
I think she picked the right school, but we certainly picked the wrong place to be living when she went there!</p>
<p>DD will leave Saturday morning. We’ll go with her to help move things out of storage and get her set up in her new digs. I sure will miss her. I told her recently I was hoping she would get a bit nasty before she leaves so I won’t miss her so much. No such luck.</p>
<p>Heading to NYC on the 23rd, with D starting the 27th.</p>
<p>DS flies to Houston on the 24th. Classes start the 27th. I can’t believe he’s a senior. Enjoy them while you can!</p>
<p>We’re leaving today, as soon as my lost luggage from our last trip arrives. DS hasn’t had a nasty moment, but his late hours are wearing on me, so maybe that will make the goodbye easier. One can hope!</p>