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<p>Sunnyday – try it – say Hallelujah! You can walk without that chair! Praise the Lord!</p>
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<p>^^^ lol classof2015 :)</p>
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<p>WooHoo! Yes it did! Thanks guys!</p>
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<p>It works! Thank you all!!!</p>
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<p>Did I miss the adult beverages and snacks?</p>
<p>I really should post this in the “Positive Spin on Greek Life” thread, but I like this group in this thread better.</p>
<p>Tonight, all 39 of us at the family reunion had dinner together in a private dining room at the resort. DH’s parents wanted to have an group photo. This group includes: one MD, two RNs, two MBAs, three PhD’s, two engineers, one attorney, one master’s in social work and one journalist (that’s me) among a few other degrees. The PhD in nanotechology (who works for Intel) had the tripod and the great camera, but who knew how to arrange 39 people (ages 17 months to 82 years) in a photo so everyone could be seen?</p>
<p>Me. Because it’s part of my job at our sorority’s annual convention and conferences to arrange large group photos for our magazine and archives. My MIL was so impressed that I organized everyone in five minutes. Of course, organized is not a word that often describes DH’s family, so those of us who married into the chaos often provide that balance.</p>
<p>^^lol fogfog, I missed out too!</p>
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<p>^OWM, where in the photo shoot did you put the partridge in a pear tree?! :D</p>
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<p>The nephew with the degree in culinary arts from Johnson & Wales was sauteeing the partridge with the pears. That was dinner.</p>
<p>Sounds delicious! :)</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, whether they are mature enough to have sex may not be correlated in any way with whether they will have sex, especially spur of the moment sex. Indeed, I suspect the correlation is negative.</p>
<p>Completely agree that talking again is in order.</p>
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<p>I’m trying to see how this is applied in practice. Does under the influence imply above the legal definition of drunk based upon alcohol level in the blood? All parties (well all but in the sub-free dorms) are likely to have alcohol and the females drink as hard as the males these days (according to my friend the university president for whom underage drinking is a primary worry). Does a boy have to not sleep with his girlfriend if they’ve been drinking? That would cut down the drinking. But generally, given the current college scene, it seems like a way to a) punish real date rape; and b) make males vulnerable to accusations of date rape in many situations that people would not define as date rape but that involved unanticipated regret. I suppose it makes females vulnerable to the same charge, but I’ve never heard of a female accused of date rape.</p>
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<p>I don’t disagree with the idea that kids having sex does not necessarily equal maturity. I was responding to another poster who was asking opinions. I was ‘recapping’ if you will two of the more popular trains of thought that had been discussed here. I didn’t mean to endorse one or the other.</p>
<p>Regarding giving consent where alcohol was involved, I was following up on the law in our state, and the policy at his university. Without restating the entire policy, in a nutshell the crux is ‘effective consent’. A person whose judgement is hindered by alcohol (they don’t have to be drunk) can not give consent. The hairy edge here is not if either of the partners realize this, but at the point a sober person would know the person’s judgement is hindered. This is only an issue in cases of sexual assault. I talked with him not simply to check a box, but because it’s not okay to ignore what goes on around you in a campus community.</p>
<p>OWM - Sounds like a great time but you really should have tried the white water rafting. We spent a day in WV rafting several years ago on our trip south for our annual week at the beach in SC. Our DD, then around 10 or so was very apprehensive and really didn’t want to go until she met our raftmates. Turns out there was a grandparent couple who were regular rafters every year. The woman said she was 70 and woudn’t miss her annual rafting trip for anything. She really made DD relaxed and of course she ended up having a wonderful time.</p>
<p>Also, congrats on the upcoming grandchild. We had dinner with older S and DIL and their two little ones (26 months and 4 weeks) for AvonMom’s birthday this evening. It is so much fun to see them grow and literally change week to week. It’s even more fun when you kiss them goodbye and mom and dad take them home! :D</p>
<p>DS is nearly finished with shopping. The dining room looks like a BB&B warehouse. I should be able to get it all in AvonMom’s SUV for the trip to Wahington in just under 3 weeks.</p>
<p>The countdown is moving forward and the number of days are quickly disappearing.</p>
<p>AvonHSDad: I did white water rafting in NC on another family trip and loved it. On this trip, we are each doing just one activity because everything is very pricey. I chose the spa!</p>
<p>Morning All</p>
<p>The issue of alcohol and consent is very sticky…and certainly the burdeon gets put on the men. First I heard of this law was while reading a book about Harvard and the Massachusetts law.</p>
<p>So on the issue of parental intuition…
I was awake sometime by 3—in part knowing that kiddo would be back in the country…And couldn’t really go back to sleep</p>
<p>At sometime after 4 I get a text from kiddo at the airport…</p>
<p>The back story is we had to make kiddos RT tickets without knowing the travel plans of the group and when to book kiddos flight home.
Sooooo turns out the group of teens - ages 15-and up were then left at the airport early this am–to connect with their flights throughout the day…</p>
<p>And our kiddo’s flight wasn’t til 4pm this afternoon.
Kiddo didn’t have $ to pay the change fee (has a debit card, not a credit card and there was only $53 on it to get home–we were thinking meals, not change fees…) and kiddo coulnd’t even check the bag since it was more than 8 hours before the flight…</p>
<p>I woke up DH to tell him and he got on the computer/sent money to the bank acct and kiddo is now on a flight home (instead of waiting 11 hrs to fly home).
My poor kiddo hasn’t eaten since a half a sandwich from the day before, hasn’t had a shower or sleep in about 24 hrs…Poor kid.
Will be glad to get kiddo fed and in own bed tonight and 24+ hrs of travel</p>
<p>Well–gotta run, I am taking younger kiddo to the surgeons office for a follow up appt this am–DH is doing the airport run.</p>
<p>fogfog- GOod luck with getting kiddo home. We had a similar experience with D1 few years ago. She went to Germany and left via Charlotte. It was her first time travelling on a plane, and we were worried (she was 15), so we drove from MA to NC to meet the plane. Good thing we did, since the flight from Munich was 5 hours late, and several of the girls missed connecting flights, and had to stay overnight in NC. Luckily, a few of the parents were local, and took a few girls home with them for the night. We ended up taking one of the girls overnight with us at our hotel, and drove her to the airport in the AM.</p>
<p>I spoke to D1 yesterday. She mentioned that she watched Toy Stoy 3, and when the scene came on with Andy walking into his bedroom that was all packed for college, she broke down sobbing. She said “That is going to be me in 2 weeks!”</p>
<p>I hope we can make it through the move in.</p>
<p>**I have taken the first and last move-in dates for this countdown from the list on this thread. </p>
<p>First new student move-in is the University of Georgia on August 9th.
Move-in day in 1 day. TOMORROW!! :eek: Safe travels.</p>
<p>Southwestern University is just 3 days later.
University of Alabama and NC State are just 4 days later.
University of Missouri (Mizzou) is just 5 days later (for sorority recruitment).</p>
<p>Last new student move-in is the University of Southern Oregon on September 22nd<br>
Move-in day in 45 days.**</p>
<p>If there are earlier or later move-in dates, please post them so that I can pick them up and adjust the countdown postings. Also, please edit and update the countdown thread using the link below.</p>
<p>The link to the Move-in Date Thread is <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1141579-hs-class-2011-college-class-2015-move-dates-5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1141579-hs-class-2011-college-class-2015-move-dates-5.html</a></p>
<p>fogfog: Looking forward to hearing that your son arrived home safely!</p>
<p>OWM: Wow! Congratulations! I certainly understand why it might take a little time to get used to the idea of grandbaby #2. Your son and daughter-in-law already have a lot on their plates. Blessings to all of you!</p>
<p>On the off-chance that someone knows the Berkshires and can offer advice… Since DS is only home for one day between camp and college, we decided to go visit him on his day off this week. My parents (70ish) are also meeting us there to see him so they have a chance to spend a bit of time with him before he goes back to school. Younger brothers aged 10 and 15 will be along as well. And the question is: what the heck are we going to do. We can have him from around 10am - 6pm. He doesn’t want to do stuff outdoors, preferably. Camp is in Great Barrington. Any thoughts of a fun indoor activity we can do with a group ages 10-72? There is a bowling alley and indoor mini-golf in GB but it is not air-conditioned and quite unpleasant during the summer. But if there were something similar but air-conditioned in the general vicinity, that might be nice. Or even a nice cafe with games and such to entertain the younger sibs, where we could hang out and chat for a while? (We have such a place near us, but I don’t know how to find such a place elsewhere…) Anyone know of anything near GB that could be suitable? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I thought of MASS MOCA in Norht Adams but it is about an hour from GB.
[MASS</a> MoCA](<a href=“http://www.massmoca.org/]MASS”>http://www.massmoca.org/)</p>