<p>Just talked to S. He is on the Dartmouth Coach now. After he had been away a whole quarter, he is coming back tonight from East to West, a long day travel. I will pick him up at the airport while his mom will prepare dinner for our family. Indeed, his mom has been shopping his favorite food since last week.
Cheers! Happy Christmas to everybody!</p>
<p>Cheers to DartmouthSon! Hope his visit warms the hearts of your family. </p>
<p>I’m a little more cautiously optomistic about D’s Xmas visit, but it will be nice to have her home.</p>
<p>Wow, so early! D1’s last final is a week from Friday. Then she’ll be home for 2 weeks. J-term starts on Jan 3rd. Like Class of 2015, I’m cautiously optimistic. We might suffer from “too much togetherness” or “I-should-have-the-car-instead-of-my-sister-itis”. And of course, semester grades may very well play into the break’s mood.</p>
<p>D got home the day before Thanksgiving and will be home until Jan 2d. She has a job but is getting very few hours. She will be bored stiff until her friends get home.</p>
<p>Wow! That’s a long break!
My D did not go home for Thanksgiving and won’t be home until Dec 22 because of the final exams.</p>
<p>Missy, is her school’s break just that long or is she transferring from a quarter to a semester school?</p>
<p>Fall quarter in 2011. Ends at Thanksgiving. Winter and Spring quarters in 2012. Ends in June.</p>
<p>My D finishes exams on 12/16 and is flying home that night. We can’t wait to have her home! She’ll be here until 1/15. By then I may be ready to send her back :-)</p>
<p>DS arrives 12/16 and will be home until 1/13. Excited to have him home but some trepidations as well; we have settled into quite a routine since he left in August and were just talking this more that we have to be careful not to ignore him or make him feel unwanted. DH then pointed out that I have just made huge lists of foods to buy for him and things to do to keep him busy so he may want to be ignored! On the busy list - haircut, new license, doctor appointments, and apps for summer 
Oh yes, sleep!</p>
<p>Hi Dartmouth Father. My Dartmouth freshman got home last night too. Nice to have her home and relaxed. She has a few friends home and more will trickle in over the next few days. Most will not be home until next week. </p>
<p>Enjoy!!!</p>
<p>Younger DD will be home on Friday afternoon and doesn’t go back until mid-January. She was home for Thanksgiving but it will be so good to have her home for a good, long visit. Older DD has been home since Thanksgiving and goes back @ New Years so the will overlap for a couple of weeks but will each have their “alone time” also. I’m happy that it worked out that way - gives me a chance to focus on each of them a little bit.</p>
<p>Our D will be coming home on Dec. 21. I encouraged her to relax during her one-month break. However, she has made plans to work full-time at the research lab where she interned last summer. She will continue work on a computer programming project. I hope that she will make time to spend with her old high school friends.</p>
<p>S comes home Friday late, around 9:30pm. I can’t wait, another driver in the house, haha.</p>
<p>D1 finishes on Friday, is home until Dec. 27th when she leaves for a California trip with swim team. She returns to JTerm on January 4th. A short time, but hopefully some solid down time with family and friends.</p>
<p>S came home Saturday and doesn’t return until Jan 8. So far so good, but I’m waiting to see how long it takes before the ‘nice’ wears off. He certainly has been more willing to spend time with us and chat, but once his other friends from back home finish with school, that will most likely change.</p>
<p>It was strange when he was unpacking, and asked for some hangers and a laundry hamper. I felt bad that I might have been making him feel like a guest because I hadn’t restocked the closet since he took everything with him to college.</p>
<p>I was cleaning DS’s room the other day and saw there were no hangers - just in time to head out and get some! We’ve moved since he left for school and he has never been to this house (or state!) so trying really hard to replicate everything as it was and to make him feel welcome and at home although it is so very different from where we were. And none of his HS friends are here - which may mean he spends happy time with us or that he holes up in his room. Could go either way. But will make me feel so good to have him at home with us!</p>