@twinsmama --Lucky!
Snowing in New England and Robotics Tournament cancelled. Wonder what my two California Kids are up to today?
Chimneykid#1 goes back to college Monday and it has been so great to have her home for such a long break. Chimneykid#2 had to leave much earlier and she called last night when the rest of us were all in the car together on our way to a play. That was a little tough for us both. Please pass the bourbon @gusmom2000
Guess who else forgot snow boots at home? :-/
In this sample, boot forgetting appears positively correlated with intelligence.
^^^ :)) :)) :))
Text: Mom, I found my textbooks in my drawer.
I did send the books requested earlier. Perhaps they were S1’s textbooks not S2’s 8-}
No text back on whether he located the boots in his dormroom or not. :-w
Goodbyes suck! The post-Christmas return always seems harder than others. 
Nice chat in the 2-hour car ride up today, though. These moments I cherish. Long winter weekend will come soon.
And of course, got a text an hour later: “I need this book ASAP, you got me the wrong edition this summer. Need tomorrow”. Um, ok. You couldn’t have remembered this during the nearly 3 weeks you were home?? Huck Finn is Huck Finn, right? . But, Amazon Prime to the rescue.
@hellomaisy : At my kid’s school, the book edition matters a lot in English classes. Sometimes it’s because of the foreword in that particular edition, which they actually pay attention to, and sometimes because the instructor points out particular passages during class (i.e., ‘the conversation between Huck and Jim at the top of page 123’)… I have run into this issue of having obtained the “wrong” book! And here I thought I had scored a great deal at the local thrift shop. LOL
Not uncommon at the college level either. Particularly in smaller classes when you are really delving into the book. Also an issue if you cannot use an ebook for the same reason.
Well, at least its not a math, science, language text which would cost a lot more than a copy of a novel. 
Latest life skill learned at BS: buying of couch, dragging couch to 4th floor, assembling of couch, disassembling of couch, dragging couch to UPS facility, shipping couch back. Mama loves BS… 
[that was my morning coffee I was enjoying while not lifting a finger]
@GoatMama --hilarious! Another benefit to BS: Ikea Assembly 101 
@GoatMama Truly college prep!
Yeah @itcannotbetrue, she has also taken a Bank Account Overdraft 103, a prerequisite for How to Pay Your Taxi Driver or Your Restaurant Bill When You Have No Money, an Honors Workshop.
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Oh, I declined Overdraft protection or whatever it is called that slaps you with low balance fee $$ for every Debit Card purchase after the money runs out.
That way, I get texts… I NEED Money or Buy me THIS with amazon links :))
Seriously, I can’t believe the local businesses let our kids get away with it stuff like that - paying with a picture of your mom’s credit card in your phone?? I guess they’re used to it.
@GoatMama , there is a pizza place across from ds’s school that really relies on the kids for a bulk of their business. They even have specials for kids at that school. I would guess that some local businesses to your child’s school are similar. That relationship probably is why the kids can “get away with stuff like that.”
It may be a shock when they come out of their bubble though!
I started giving daughter allowance at five, 50c per age per week. When she reached 11, $1 per year for age after 10, doubled it at preteen, and now that she is at bs, $25 per week. She has saved most of them + money from relatives, and now is sitting on a chunk on her acct so no worry for overdraft. She also has my credit card as an additional user to use it for expenses that I should pay and emergency. No problem so far. Grier school is out of nowhere and taxi can’t and won’t take students without strict school permission that isn’t given at all until 11th. Leaving school ground, including weekend shopping, is always accompanied by a faculty.
Impressive, @SculptorDad! Compared with your household, ours functions in a stable state of well-controlled chaos.