<p>THe school where D is signed up to take her one AP test this year decided to do the paperwork early (today) so since D has not decided yet she had to go. </p>
<p>In terms of the prom, both of my girls are going to the statewide prom for homeschoolers at Great Wolf Lodge. THey are going alone but I know they will meet others they know. One has her dress but the older- I am not sure about. The older has another formal later that week done by our local group. Then we have field day, fine arts and awards nights, and then finally graduation. The graduation costs minus the gown and the diploma are about 150 for us. It could have been cheaper but most of us wanted to have more than cake and ice cream. We have a small graduation with 10 kids participating and a trio playing music. My husband and D have to make some time and actually make her powerpoint presentation. But that isn’t due till field day and her 100 word bio for the program is due April 28th. I told her that means her decision day is April 28th. </p>
<p>D really wants to have a separate graduation/birthday/moving away party to say goodbye to her friends. Yes, she knows most will be leaving for college if not this year, in the next two years, but she is leaving the area permanantly and unlike others, won’t get to see them during breaks or summer. She wants to get a job when we move but that really depends where we move. Obviously if it is England, that is a no go. </p>
<p>According to the AF, we are definitely moving away from here and they hope to tell us where next week. H will get his salary offer for the civilian job probably on Saturday so he will have to make a difficult decision. Retire now with a certain level of job later or stay in and try his luck at getting a civilian job later.</p>
<p>listening to our two dear teens, engaged in discussing</p>
<p>world economics and world stability
terrorism
why military action?
is economic might better than military might?
what does it mean that China owns so much of the US’s debt?
what would happen if we brought our military home and out of other nations affairs?
what does the “gov. shut down” really mean? does it really matter
what examples in history do they see
is the US just like a dynasty of China? what would come next?
etc etc… </p>
<p>a lively evening</p>
<p>On the homework front, I think my freshman has more hw than my Sr with 6 APs…hmmm maybe because it is all review for the Srs since APs are in less than a month.</p>
<p>We just signed up for Netflix and DD seems to think that her “assignment” is to watch all of the back episodes of Bones that she never saw since this was not a show she followed. Seems like every night is Groundhog Day around here these days. Me “don’t you have any homework?” DD “I’ll do it later”. Rinse & repeat. </p>
<p>Kinderny - I love Martin Sheen in just about anything and the West Wing had such an awesome cast and incredible writing. Loved it!</p>
<p>OUr seniors graduate on a Saturday and the rest of the kids are out of school the following Wednesday. There are a couple of days during the week of graduation where the kids are not in school (senior trip to a theme park two hours away, a day where they eat breakfast and view the senior video at the school and then adjourn to a local park for a fun day of games and cook-out. Can’t imagine how nice it would be to be done six weeks before end of term.</p>
<p>OWM - Love the idea of a Senior Service Day! We don’t have anything like that but it sounds like an awesome day. MilMom - fingers crossed for your news next week!</p>
<p>Feeling very sentimental tonight. 21 years ago, I delivered DD1 and my life changed forever. Seems like just yesterday but also seems like forever ago.</p>
<p>Blue~Love the idea of the suit. Last year we rented for S1 but with three proms to go to investing in a quality suit seems a good idea. He can even take it with him to school.</p>
<p>OWM~Love the idea of service senior day :D</p>
<p>Bkcs~ No need to apologize, please keep posting freely :D</p>
<p>Emilybee~Love your pictures …why the military uniform??</p>
<p>Renaissance~Nice to hear from you …I know what you mean by the deferral–.> falling out of love–> reconsidering.–> Good Luck and keep us posted.</p>
<p>**<em>♪♫</em>Happy 21st Birthday to Proudmomof2 DD1<em>♪♫</em> **</p>
<p>Waving to all from the upper deck of the SS Indecision cocktail in hand :)</p>
<p>We will be attending accepted students days to help finalize his decision mid April. Until then he is concentrating on his homework. He has worked too hard not to finish strong
He has all APs classes(his school makes them take the exams), plus two seminars that keeps him busy.
He will have finals after AP exams, then prom, then graduation mid June.
He is also very busy with his sport, may decide to try as a walk on to the school he goes to (got an e-mail from a coach today-This is a child who turned down recruiting offers to tippy top schools to follow his dream…I have much respect for him. He could have bailed out early on.)</p>
<p>In my experience the next few weeks will fly by…and August will be upon us before we
Know it.</p>
<p>Our tux scenario: Son needed one for three events in three weeks so we bought one at Men’s Warehouse when they had a buy-one-get-one-free sale. Penney’s also has tux separates AND tie/vest/pocket square combinations in a variety of colors. And inexpensive shiny shoes. All online.</p>
<p>He also has a suit from Penney’s that he wore the past two years for speech and debate. Penney’s has great sales and we have limited shopping for dress clothes for young men, so we are Penney’s fans.</p>
<p>So happy for the many prom-goers. Our S is a little sad - he will miss prom due to a scholarship interview weekend at one of his remaining college choices. I think I feel even more sorry for his gf of two years, though - she misses prom and doesn’t even have the chance of a scholarship as solace
We are trying to think of a fun event they could do together as a “prom substitute”</p>
<p>proudmomof2–Happy 21st bday to your DD1. I can completely relate to your sentimental memories because DS1’s 21st was 2 days ago. Soooo, seems we were having very similar experiences in April of 1990. How quickly the years have passed, and how packed they have been with wonderful as well as difficult times. We have told our S1 that we will wait until he returns to the US and celebrate his birthday on May 4, exactly one month late. I figure, by my highly illogical transitive property, that this somehow makes me one month younger. :D</p>
<p>Bookmarking with …“He will have finals after AP exams, then prom, then graduation mid June.
He is also very busy with his sport, may decide to try as a walk on to the school he goes to (got an e-mail from a coach today-This is a child who turned down recruiting offers to tippy top schools to follow his dream…I have much respect for him. He could have bailed out early on.)”</p>
<p>^^Puma I would contact them and try to see if he can be moved up in the calendar,
I don’t think that they want a kid to miss prom…You do not know if you do not ask :D</p>
<p>Shutterfly site: If you want to be added send me your email address.
Also please do not forget to post your own pictures, it is only fun if we all share.</p>
<p>Madbean - yes, April of 1990 was a fun month, for sure. I then doubled the fun 3 years later when DD2 was born in the same month. I actually kind of follow your magical thinking and would agree that makes you a month younger.</p>
<p>Mamom - thanks! Now that you mention it, the moms SHOULD be the ones who are celebrated since we did all the work on that day…and I am somewhat sorry to say that you would apparently have to get in line to buy my DD a drink. I do believe that she has a good head on her shoulders but she has several different “groups” she runs with @ school - sorority sisters, kids from her freshman-year dorm, boyfriend and their mutual friends - and it sounds like there is some big group that is going out together. Yikes!</p>
<p>“Emilybee~Love your pictures …why the military uniform??”</p>
<p>His school has mandatory JROTC. From what I could gather, during the Civil War the north didn’t have enough officers and they came up from West Point - which isn’t too far from here - and opened Officer Training programs at all the all boy academies. It stuck at most of them. Of the three all boy academies two still have the program and the third just gave it up a few years ago.</p>
<p>Mamom, at boychild’s school they were tuxedo pants, shirts & black tie but with their uni coats. Young men in formal attire look so handsome!</p>
<p>2ed – Just PM’d you for the Shutterfly account.</p>
<p>As for dorm bathrooms, my dorm had the bathrooms down the hall. There were 8-9 toilets with doors that closed and locked, three sinks with a big mirror, one bathtub, and probably 6 showers. The showers only had flimsy shower curtains. Each dorm room had a sink in it, so you could brush your teeth in there or wash your face. It never even occurred to me that there might be a dorm where two rooms shared a bath in between.</p>
<p>The thing that was best about my dorm was we had our own cafeteria that connected my dorm to the dorm behind us (both women’s dorms). So, you didn’t really even have to get dressed to go to breakfast; you could have your hair in curlers and wear your robe if you wanted to. Now, so many colleges have a separate building with the dining hall, so everyone has to trek across campus, at least some distance. In fact, DS in picking his dorm last night chose the one CLOSEST to the chow!</p>
<p>no prom here–seattlemom , our D’s sound a bit alike as far as just wanting to get through and done with the school, D1 has never been interested in the school dances and similar events.
Spring break here --the D’s got to spend a couple days with my (aging too quickly)Mom who lives about an 1 1/4 hours away, otherwise still homework for both and the AP teachers are at the school off and on so D1 taking advantage of that. She is also trying to get some more hours in at work for her college fund and for the little shopping binges lately. And sleeping! Both kids have been so tired lately, maybe some due to our continuing winter weather.</p>
<p>Novelisto - no Castle for DD2 yet but it does sound like the kind of series she would get into. I have similar tastes - it’s really just making me crazy that she’s spending sooooo much time vegging in front of the TV watching episode after episode.</p>
<p>cgpm - you & I could have lived in the same dorm; that was exactly what my set-up was like. </p>
<p>Thanks for all the birthday wishes for DD#1. This one has really kind of hit me hard, not because it’s her 21st but because it’s the first one where we won’t see her much. She and her BF are coming home for a few hours on Saturday for a birthday lunch but otherwise we won’t see her. I totally get that this is how it should be but it just feels like the beginning of the next phase (real adult, separate life). We have always been close so I think I just plain miss her. Of course, I can’t say any of this to her since she would feel bad so…thanks for listening!</p>
<p>Just got the FA package from the public U that daughter is not attending - all loans. Public Us in Texas are getting hit hard from our state’s budget shortfall. More thankful for Vanderbilt every day!</p>
<p>I guess senioritis is rubbing off on me, too. Last night, at 10 pm, D asked to go to a big sleepover…on a school night…and I actually said yes. The group of girls has been very close, some since elem school, some middle and all through HS. I think all of the “lasts” are hitting them hard.</p>
