<p>After lurking lots and posting some and thoroughly enjoying the 09 thread, let me introduce myself. Mom of 2 – D1 has one semester left as an English major at Lewis & Clark, and S1 is headed off to Willamette with Oregon101’s S. He just wound up his track season and is looking forward to running with the Bearcats. SJTH, can you tell we love the PNW? Hope the kids love it enough to stay on after graduation so H and I can migrate north.</p>
<p>hey minimom–S is long jump and triple jump so maybe also a Bearcat–not sure yet.</p>
<p>missypie: Just finished the sappy graduation the school requires. Thanks to someone’s suggest on the 09 thread I scanned in some pictures…the first three pages of the letter were mostly pictures, then on the last page I added more random thoughts than sentimental words. </p>
<p>Now you’re one of the cool moms who gets so dang creative…puts the rest to shame:)</p>
<p>Hmmm laundry, no worries about my d and laundry. She’s always doing laundry at home…at midnight, oops I forgot I need my uniform (2:30AM), clothes dryer going 20 minutes before leaving for school!</p>
<p>Now, Appalachian Boy (S1), that’s another matter. Piles and piles on the floor. Stopped doing his laundry ages ago, when I found clean and folded laundry back in the dirty clothes hamper because he didn’t want to put it away. We also had all of our closets outfitted really nice when building our home. Nary an item of clothing in the closet:(</p>
<p>Just got the clue to move over here! I am posting from Western New York here, have two girls, one off to Wooster in August and the other just starting HS…</p>
<p>Gotta go to the last wind ensemble concert tonight - problem is I am playing with them in the last piece since they needed some extra hands in the percussion section, can I read the music through the tears???</p>
<p>At this point the laundry piles up untouched until Friday night - the last couple of track meets have been quite the fashion statements…come to think of that I guess the next BBB trip will include getting separate dorm laundry bins for running clothes versus regular clothes.</p>
<p>D is starting to think about what she plans on saying in her speech at Graduation. It is one of her duties as VP of the senior class. Just when I thought <em>I</em> was done worrying about essays…</p>
<p>I had an elderly maiden aunt who used her oven to store newspapers!! (She lived in NYC but not exactly Carrie Bradshaw material. And yes, she died a natural death…)</p>
<p>I have a small sense of reassurance hearing that my D is not the only one who uses her floor as a storage unit for clothing. She has been doing her own laundry for a while. I decided it was time when she got very particular about how certain items were washed. Rather ironic considering their disposition once they make it to her room ;)</p>
<p>I know an apology will be in order to her future roommate. She truly is a happier person when her room is in order around her, however it only seems to last for a week at best. I can only hope that having another person in her space will motivate her in a way that we can’t.</p>
<p>hearing the “laundry tales” helps with perspective–my oldest has the neatest room in the house, so when d covered every surface with collectibles, and younger s covered every bit of floor with clothes, cups etc. I worried…I guess its pretty typical…I too stopped doing laundry for my youngest when I discovered he was putting the clean folded laundry I placed in his room in with the dirty baseball pants. (and I learned that a 13 y.o. can do laundry-who knew :)</p>
<p>woody–love the oven for newspapers–out of the box thinking</p>
<p>One S rising senior at American University. Plans are to go on to law school. </p>
<p>D (slowly) finishing up Senior year. Will start in the fall at Bates College. </p>
<p>Hopefully the questionaire for roommates for Bates is all encompasing. </p>
<p>D loves to go to bed early – not unknown for her to be asleep by 7:30 or 8:00 and loves to get up early 4-5 AM. She is a SLOB (caps needed here). Not uncommon for me to find pieces of her track uniform in the family room or her clothes that she wore to school and she doesn’t understand when I load everything up on the weekend and put it in the door to her room. I wouldn’t dare enter. There may be things in there that aren’t harmless. :)</p>
<p>Rochestermom, Rachacha, and others who are sending athletes off for the first time this fall: The great news is, during the season, the school will most likely do all their sports laundry - prax gear and uniforms. We bow before the glory of the Pin Bag.</p>
<p>3 kids here: D a rising senior at Swat, S1 a soon-to-be first-year at Swat, and S2 . . . a rising second grader at home. 
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<p>So, crm, when you say
the answer from here is, sure!</p>
<p>I love you guys. Have learned so much from you all. I have one S headed off this fall and am glad to have your wisdom, humor and understanding.</p>
<p>My S believes that the dryer has magical powers: when you pick up crumpled, dirty jeans from the floor of your room and run them through the dryer at 7 am, they become suitable for another day at school.</p>
<p>^funny</p>
<p>I’ll follow with intros…</p>
<p>I am a mom of 3, son is a rising sophomore at Washington and Lee Univ, daughter is a rising freshman at New College of Florida, and son 2 a rising 8th grader, (but with the amount of cologne he put on this morning you could be fooled). </p>
<p>I must say as I wrote, I wanted to hold onto where they are, and say freshman, h.s. senior and 7th grader…where do the years go?</p>
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<p>Except that some of the pictures were a bit crooked when I scanned them, so they remained crooked when copied into the letter. Oh well, don’t want to scare Son with too much crafty perfection.</p>
<p>It’s confirmed that I’m hosting an after prom party (on the 15th). So far, it’s limited to 12-14 kids. I’ll think about food over the weekend. I’m trying to limit it to relatively neat (i.e. no chocolate fondue). I wonder if those Sham-wows we bought at the State Fair will finally be used.</p>
<p>We lent our chocolate fountain to the host of the XC party, I think they had to hire professionals to clean that mess up! Just stick to nibbles - I found that the kids did not want to eat that much (even the usually bottomless pit guys)</p>
<p>I ask my son nightly what the details are for his prom but he keeps saying he’ll let me know. He is supposedly going with a “friend”. But he hasn’t told me if she is paying for her ticket or what color dress or if they will be getting a limo or bus? UGH… </p>
<p>He, by the way, has the smallest room in the house & the piles of clothes on the floor are HUGE… he is going to think his dorm room is a mansion - which I’m afraid, will include bigger mountains of dirty/clean clothes on floor. It is so nice though to hear he is one of many human tornadoes.</p>
<p>That was last year’s prom with my son, so this year I’m getting more involved.</p>
<p>I ordered the corsage yesterday - spent way too much but once the lady mentioned gardenias I was hooked because my wedding bouquet was gardenias. Husband says that I might as well be her date.</p>
<p>Graduation is one month from today.</p>
<p>We are going to ask both our teenagers to take responsibility for laundry – as prep for college. We’ve had lots of help in the house for years as both my wife and I are extremely busy (at least I am when I’m not posting on CC). But, now we have less. My wife says she won’t comment on the state of the kids’ clothes unless the stench is really bad.</p>
<p>I am happy to run the machines but I cannot fold stuff – when I handle that stage, the wearer looks, upon putting on the neatly folded clothes, as if he or she has slept in them for a day or more.</p>
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<p>Here, too. Holy cow.</p>
<p>My DS is heading off to Duke in the (I was going to write fall, but really it is late summer - aaah). Twin D’s are rising eighth graders, I’m hoping that Historymom will share all of her strategies for sending two off to college in a few years.</p>
<p>I am becoming inspired to pass the laundry duties along to the next generation. I tend to be a little fussy about the sorting and folding, but then I find the clothes I just folded in the bottom of the hamper under the filthy sweaty soccer socks.</p>