<p>Historymom: Scripps has maid service in the dorms!?! How does that work. I tell this to my D and she will walk through fire to get into there. Not the neatest person on God’s green earth.</p>
<p>My kids’ favorite days off are the “no power” days. There is a HS, middle school and elem school very near each other and for some reason, those three schools lose power at the drop of a hat. Since the problem is always isolated to those schools (and the other schools in the district remain in session), the time off never has to be made up!</p>
<p>Davidson is on my high school freshman daughter’s short list of schools, because she read they have laundry service. When I hear more about this maid service, she will probably add Scripps also! So, please keep this list coming! I don’t think big time athletics is in her future, she is very happy at the JV level.</p>
<p>Glad you 09ers, or I guess I should call you 13ers, have managed to jump into your new chapter so eagerly!</p>
<p>My recollection is that I left my sweaty athletic clothing for the laundry service at the gym but I was not clever enough to have the laundry service at the athletic department wash anything else. [then again, they may have been a little too clever to accept anything else.]</p>
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Shame on me but I do hope that he [dumb boy who messed with a historytwin] is simultaneously stricken with a horrible rash, pink eye and an ear infection on graduation day.
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And zits. Lots of 'em. Especially a great big honking one right on the tip of his nose, prominent from every angle in every cap & gown pic.
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Probably basketball; he loves it and has a pretty mean half-court shot. He’s wanted to try soccer for a few years, but it’s always clashed with other stuff on his spring schedule. Says he’d still like to give it a try in college… but there’s a pretty big list of other things he wants to try too. We’ll see. :)</p>
<p>missypie, the most “memorable” recent grad speech I can think of off the top of my head was memorable for its brevity and, well, not-very-interesting-ness. The val thought he’d be clever by giving his speech in verse. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a whole lot to say, and it seemed to me that he spent most of the time smirking at his cleverness. Recent val speeches haven’t been all that great at our school. The class presidents’ speeches have been pretty good, maybe because they spend more time getting to know students and faculty, and they’re generally more involved (and no slouches academically).</p>
<p>Recent guest speakers included a historian and a couple of politicians. The historian was very interesting. The politician who’d just lost was outstanding; he gave a speech on basic principles that moved people on both sides of the aisle. The politician who was just beginning her race was not so hot imho; she spent a lot of time talking about herself and the whole thing came off like a campaign speech.</p>
<p>kumitedad: If the floor is picked up it will be vacuumed and I think a duster gets run around the window sills and what not. It’s no mystery to us why Trinity U and Scripps both made the final short list since D did ask “Is it totally shallow to view dorm quality as an important factor in making my college decision?” TU has the maid service too, plus you only share a bathroom with 3 other girls.</p>
<p>shawbridge, I worked in the field house at my college, one of the things we did was check out gym clothes to students and then wash them. One of the perks was we got to wash our own laundry at work</p>
<p>oh yesss geek_mom!! Zits are welcomed! Did I mention that in addition to being an all league soccer player DD is a basketball fan and took stats for the Varsity basketball team?? She asked me the other day, "so…if I go to Scripps will I meet this “geek-kid” :D</p>
<p>Hit the wall today, just sad and teary. Rainy day doesn’t help. My D calls her room “organized chaos” a euphemism for “pigsty”.I think. I get anxious just going in there. D has Ap lit today and Ap Euro tomorrow. Her Euro teacher is “okay” so we shall see. I did get her a review book. She goes to a small private school. no announcemnts of acceptances. Although I was happy to hear a girl at her school who got wait listed everywhere has gotten off some, not sure where she is going. It was really a weird year. Rochestermom- wistful about Bates D was accepted but chose to not go. Not for any bad reason just another school was better for her, her major , locale etc… I wish she was going to be closer.
Yeah Mother bears do not forgive the ones who hurt their kids. The kids get over it easier than the moms. Sometimes I also hold grudges against the mom 's who didn’t correct their little darlings. I never thought my kids were perfect but instructed them differently if they were not nice.
This also led to problems in freshman year when my D who was nice to everyone, attracted the needy kid, who stalked her and said he wanted her to be the mother of his children. We had to step in on that one. Now I laugh she would be so able to handle that on her own now. We were so freaked. I guess I will be saying this in four years, gives me comfort.
No Val or Sal here. My D will speak-class president. Also pres of student body speaks too. Grad will be special also because my D2 is also class pres ( freshman)so they will be on the same platform</p>
<p>Oh yeah D’s car needs brakes was making a noise for a couple of months she just thought it was a “car noise” now we prob need callipers etc… Maybe you guys should ask your kids about any"car noises"</p>
<p>A big thank you to whoever (sorry I can’t remember who) said they were doing a “college send off party” instead of a grad party. My d is really busy right after graduation with work, other parties, college orientation, etc. My sil said, “maybe we should have a party without her”. Good idea, and then we’ll do a family send off party in August. Boing…shoulda had a V-8 moment!</p>
<p>downtoearth, so sorry that you have the blues today. I know what you mean about being wistful about the ones that got away. </p>
<p>You know I am a crier. Sentimental stuff, even when it doesn’t directly involve me or mine gets me but I have been remarkably dry eyed so far. I keep wondering when it will hit.</p>
<p>crzymom we are doing that too.</p>
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All league soccer, waytago historygal! Gotta know she’s tough and smart! I’m with her on basketball; played it a loooooong time ago in junior high and it’s always been my favorite sport to watch.
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Oh my, I wonder if that’s why she’s been warming up to SMC? “Back off meddling moms, let me live my own life!” 
D I don’t know about yours, but I think mine would probably be mortified if I tried to arrange a meeting. Hard to imagine they wouldn’t run into each other at some point, though, and she sounds like such a wonderful young lady. If you get a phone call from a musical guy who wants permission to ask your daughter out, then you’ll know. ;)</p>
<p>I like the college send off party idea…hmm and I can do for both kids in August, double the fun.</p>
<p>yes, it hits at odd times. my d’s graduation is next friday, brought home cap and gown after AP Lit exam today. Yep its hitting me</p>
<p>geek and history–that would be sweet if they met</p>
<p>I “met” a mom on the New College thread who was wonderfully helpful…she gave my d her d’s email and they’ve chatted. turns out mom lives up the street from us and we’re planning to meet for coffee. I think it would be fun to have a local friend to possibly travel to and from school with. but here’s the kicker–my d mentioned to her friend that she “met” this awesome student at NCF–friend asks how? oh my mom and her mom are well, er, cc friends…;)</p>
<p>Oh gosh, teariness, know what you mean downtoearth. I’ve had it a few times too – not at the times I thought I would, but at really strange times when it hits me that This Is It. Like, I’ll trip over the Gamecube on the living room floor, say something loud, and tell myself that a few months from now the stupid thing won’t be in my way. And then get all misty. Over a Gamecube? Think I must be nuts.</p>
<p>There’s a concert tomorrow night, last one of the year. I expect that to be emotional because of geek_son’s role in it and his relationship with the director, who’s been like a father to him. At another event a few months back, they had a great big hug that left me all teary. I think tomorrow they’ll both be teary, which of course will ruin me.</p>
<p>I’m telling myself now that when a teacher roasts my kiddo at graduation (which they do for each kid), then I’ll melt on the floor in a sniffly puddle of tears. If I say that enough times, maybe I’ll get through it ok like the other times I thought I’d be a goner. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Somebody could make a fortune selling waterproof mascara to high school moms, April through June at least.</p>
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<p>LOL - I’m a CC friend with one of my S’s current classmates, but he would totally recoil if he knew! He already thinks I’m far too obsessed with HIS college journey, but hey, what does he know? ;)</p>
<p>I had my first moment of being totally overcome with what’s happening. I’ve been working on flights for preview, move-in/orientation, the holidays, etc., but couldn’t find a schedule for the Freshman and Parent Orientation to know when we could book our flight home. Students move in on Wednesday and orientation goes through Sunday, so I figured I’d call.</p>
<p>Me: “Is there a schedule yet for Orientation so I can determine what time we can fly back home on Sunday?”</p>
<p>Admin: “Oh, the last parent event is a family mass that will over at 2:00 on Thursday, then they’re ours.”</p>
<p>I literally couldn’t speak for a few moments - we’re handing our babies over.</p>
<p>That will be nice support for you lindz126. My D already knows some kids who are going to her school. one is from her summer sport league. They were friendly but not best friends. I think that is good.She likes to branch out and meet new people.
she will know other kids in the sdame city, close but not too much
Historymom-geekmom Matchmaker matchmaker-just kidding. Your kids all seem so great.
Minnesota people- My dad’s family and my favorite aunt from Minn. such a soft spot in my heart for that part of the country. I am more Minn minded than where I am from.</p>
<p>Cpeltz-do many people know each other in "real life’?</p>
<p>Our college send-off party just seemed like the best idea when confronted with all the other ‘events’ that were going on within the time frame (Memorial Day weekend) and with the added benefit of D knowing where she would be dorming and any needs she would have for her dorm room (not that we are doing this with the expectation for gifts but I’m sure some will ask…).</p>
<p>I’m feeling kind of at loose ends, D having decided her college, not much planning left there to help her with. S on the other hand does not share ANYTHING with us so trying to help with anything is a battle. <em>sigh</em></p>
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<p>Ah, we’ll be spared that. Son’s beloved choir teacher left last year, and I don’t think anyone would call the replacement beloved. It will be pretty easy for him to walk away from that situation.</p>
<p>Cpeltz–Make sure you pack plenty of tissues for that abrupt farewell. If D’s school had had a farewell mass, I would have been a teary mess through that, too. I helped my daughter move stuff into her room last year after spending two days buying it all a thousand miles away, and then broke into tears while speaking with her housekeeper in the entryway and saying goodbye. I bawled my eyes out the whole hour drive to the airport and then some on the two flights home. Daughter, I’m happy to say, was fine and actually incredulous that I was so teary on her happy day. Now that I’ve seen how quickly the first year flies by, I think I’ll be much calmer about leaving DS in the fall.</p>