Also it’s really sad when …your 14 year-old shaves a 1/4 of her head the night before a school visit.
K.
Trying to process this.
Kind of off topic here, but I’m not sure this thread really has a topic any more. I just have to share my new answer to the “why do you send your kids to boarding school” question. SoxBoy is on the football team. Tomorrow is the last game of the season, against the school’s biggest rival. Here’s how the team is getting psyched up for the game: they’re all going together to tonight’s production of the fall musical, because two of the boys on the team are also in the musical and they want to support them. That’s why! Because at this school, the star linebacker can also be the star of the musical, and the other boys on the team think that’s awesome, not weird.
Exactly!
My good friend complained that other kids make comments (benign, such as you are strange, etc) because her football player son plays the cello with orchestra at LPS.
I would love to see DS in the musical. 5th grade musical (fortunately mandatory for everyone at LPS) was awesome.
By the way, this thread has no topic. It’s miscellaneous rambling #2.
I went back to 1st page to check. 
@ChoatieMom the haircut isn’t pretty, I am not going to sugar coat it. The upside is the school turned out to be a terrible fit in any case, and Chimneykid1 was able to incorporate lovable, quirky and yes, impulsive, Chimneykid2 into a great supplemental essay so at least the Chimney family makes for good application reading! Does Choatiekid want to date someone with 1/4 of his same haircut?
ChoatieCadet is pretty partial to that look. 
Can I put something out there that might ruin the fun?
It’s really sad when your child has worked hard all of their life to finally be a senior in college doing a study abroad in Paris and she gets murdered by a terrorist. My prayers go out to Noemi’s family.
How are your kids handling the Paris attacks? My DD seems sad and worried. She knows Paris, spent a week there in a PtoP program, so she has very fond memories.
Coincidentally, our town had its annual “Light the Night” event on November 14, the day after. The thousands of luminaries spelling out HOPE, LOVE, and, yes, the Paris Peace Sign, drew tears.
How are your kids doing?
The world certainly isn’t getting any safer, and my kid chose the military. Obviously, this horrible event is being discussed in and out of his classrooms. In English class, instead of comparing and contrasting Hamlet and MacBeth, he’s writing about ISIS vs. al-Qaeda. I watch the news more personally now and fear what he will face upon graduation, but his attitude is, “Someone has to do this, why not me?”
God bless and protect all our service men and women and all those who fight this fight everywhere.
OK, this is not in the same category as the somber statements that precede it, but it is really sad when you are all set to drive 3+ hours to pick up your children and you find out your husband has your car keys. There is no spare; he lost it years ago. He cannot be reached at the moment. To quote Charlie Brown: Aaaaaaauuuuuuugggggghh!
@twinsmama – that STINKS!!! 
Hope you got there ok, @twinsmama. If I’d seen this earlier I’d have offered to grab your kiddos while I was getting mine (plus his Spanish friend who will be spending the break with us). Laundry load #1 is already in the washer; many more to go. Headed to grocery store now for provisions…been a while since I’ve had 15/16 yo boys around.
Thanks for the good thoughts. All is well. Husband brought keys home, I made it there and back, and my mountain of laundry will keep until another day.
it’s really sad when… you are really excited for DD to come home for Thanksgiving break but she is more excited to see friends from her old high school than dear old mom & dad