I bought Milk yesterday and the expiration is March 12…this amplified the M10 madness that I am experiencing. I created a list of things I can do to become distracted from this event. Please add to it.
Create list of tasks for distraction – in progress!
Don’t forget to eat healthy meals, exercise regularly, and sleep.
Plan night out (or special dinner at home) on March 10 for celebration (think positive!)
Work on taxes due on April 15
Commence early spring-cleaning – get boxes, bags, De-clutter garage, sort through old clothing for donation
Shop for considerate end-of-year gifts for teachers
Plan for special summer outings knowing that a kid will be away from home – baseball games, theater, concerts, et c.
Plan for long weekends in the fall to visit school or bring kid back home: Labor Day, Parents Weekend, Thanksgiving
Plan small graduation/going away to boarding school party in June – consider creating slide show for family of kid through the ages – from birth to boarding school applications
Schedule Doctor and Dentist appointments well before August for immunization records required by school and general health. Consider requesting special appointments for dates when you know your kid will be home – last week of December, first week of January, Spring Break 2016, et c.
Research packing list for going away to school
Research and plan for re-visit days for after M10
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I am laughing thinking about what my pediatrician’s office would say if I tried to schedule Drs appointments now for when they might be home from school next year…ridiculous
@LifeLongNYer Our pediatrician’s office takes appointments 9 months ahead so it’s not too far fetched. Our dentists only go as far as 6 months I think.
201. Start calling Auntie Tilly for monetary support. Collect recipes for rice and/or beans.
I like the suggestion someone made on this forum a long time ago. I’ve never forgotten it as I think it is the most grounded suggestion ever. If someone knows who posted it or can link it, please do so. The poster said that they were going to have a special dinner on M9 to celebrate their child’s specialness no matter the BS outcomes the following day. They were going to discuss how amazing their child was just for successfully completing the very arduous process and congratulate their kid on a job well done, an accomplishment independent of whatever decision any school makes. They were also going to emphasize how the morrow’s decisions said nothing at all about the worth of their child and put this whole process into the perspective it deserves which is, “this doesn’t really matter much in the grand scheme of things and does not affect who you are or what you mean to us or anyone else.” Bravo.
I would suggest that if parents are so wrapped up in these decisions that they have to calm themselves with lists of things to distract themselves, they might want to think about the message they might be sending to their child. Hopefully, any angst you have is not being communicated in any way to your child.
@heartburner - Wow! That’s some list!
I should probably start early spring cleaning, but I’m binge watching “House of Cards” new season on netflix.
If you’ve never watched the show, you could start with season 1 and it may take you 'til March 10th to catch up
This is on my mind a lot, and I try to carry to stress, rather than transfer it. DD has been very busy since January, preparing for a musical. After last night’s performance, DH said ‘Well, you’re all done now.’ and she said ‘No I’m not…There’s the Model UN conference.’ (end of March) Whew, apparently she’s not really focused on March 10th.
Meanwhile, I guess some of the Catholic day schools in the Boston area have already sent acceptances, so some of DD’s classmates already have some results.
@ChoatieMom , we borrowed that idea of a special March 9 dinner last year, lbut I’m not sure it helped. No matter what we say and do, my daughter still believes that she wasn’t accepted last year because she wasn’t good enough. She knows the financial realities, but she thinks she just isn’t amazing ENOUGH to make schools overlook the money. And she’s not from Albania. Hmmm, come to think of it, and to answer a question on another thread…maybe, with hindsight, what I would have done differently is to move to Wyoming before starting this whole process!
@twinsmama I’m pretty sure you can get your driver’s license at 14 in North Dakota, so we used to joke about moving there and having ND be my legal place of residence so I could drive. In retrospect, maybe we should’ve followed through…
