<p>Mizzbee - you are not taking my advice to ask for the roommate’s bed? I thought we were friends.</p>
<p>He doesn’t have a roommate yet…so I need to wait until Homecoming weekend to pull that!</p>
<p>I agree … no reason for the girlfriend to come along. </p>
<p>As for sleeping in, I did stop waking S up during his senior year of HS. He was late quite a bit - except when tardies meant he couldn’t go to a dance. Then, what do you know, hopped right out of bed. He did schedule his college classes after 9 a.m. That should help. (High school started at 7:20 a.m.) He knows it’s all up to him now. We’ll see.</p>
<p>Geesh…go away for a week and come back to find out the whole family moved !!! At least someone left a forwarding address this time…</p>
<p>Missed the launch list but got back last night after dropping DS off to move into the dorm and start band camp. Hadn’t even gotten out of the parking lot before the wife sprung a leak. Will have to explain to DS the value of fouling the nest if he makes it back home next summer.</p>
<p>Good luck to all who are just now starting to plan for your move !!!</p>
<p>“sprung a leak” (I don’t know how to mark the text … oh well) … took me a second to figure that one out. I teared up a couple of times this morning thinking of my youngest son’s impending departure. I saw a small U-Haul on my way home from the gym and checked out the driver and passenger to see if they might be college bound. Sure enough - a dad and young girl. Whaaa!! They will be leaving soon!!</p>
<p>Here’s a silly question … washing the new XL Twin sheets and towels. Do I send DS off with the fresh out of the vinyl bag comforter or does it need to be washed first?</p>
<p>I am washing everything first. What confidence do you have that those beddings were drag through some dirty floor before they were put in the vinyl bag. </p>
<p>Full disclosure - I am one of those crazy parents who scrub and clean a dorm room before my kid could unpack.</p>
<p>I washed all of my kids’ baby clothes few times to get them nice and soft before I put them on my kids.</p>
<p>MemphisGuy, my girl starts band camp next week. I know it’s going to be killer hot down there in NOLA. Good luck to your son!</p>
<p>And I agree with everyone who said no on the GF tagging along to say goodbye. </p>
<p>I need to wash those XL bedsheets this weekend. She is picking up her new comforter at the BB&B down there, so she’ll have to wash it herself.</p>
<p>I just wanted to thank all of you for your replies to the “girlfriend dilemma”. LOL All of you confirmed my belief that she should wait and visit him at a later date. Now I feel better about it. He told her it was fine with him but it was ultimately up to me. So then I was left to feel like the “bad guy”. 
I’m okay with that now because I’m convinced that it is the right decision. Thanks again!</p>
<p>If we had brought gf, I think my DH would have hated life. 2 1/2 hours in a car crying all the way home.</p>
<p>allboyz - it is nice that your son has you to be the bad guy, sometimes our kids have a hard time to say no. I often told my kids to use me to say no when they were in high school.</p>
<p>I suspect DH has enough of the wife springing a leak already, why have two leaks in the car. :p</p>
<p>That is why we are staying with friends, so I can cry into a bottle of wine and he can barbecue stoically with his buddie.</p>
<p>Oldfort, I never really looked at it that way. You are right.</p>
<p>D’s bf asked her to go along and apparently argued that he could help move stuff, etc. D asked us if this would be OK and somewhat to my surprise, DH said it was up to her. (I wasn’t able to take the day off work to go along myself). We parents later discussed it between ourselves and agreed that neither of us thought it a good idea, for all the reasons others have mentioned above. In a later discussion with D we made those points, but said that as an adult, she could make the choice. Also said she was welcome to blame a “no” on her ogre parents if that would help.</p>
<p>As it turned out, she told the bf no, she thought it would work better as just a dad-and-daughter thing, and that they’d only be a couple of hours apart at college, and he could visit sometime soon. Although in high school she sometimes took advantage of our offers to blame us for a “no” decision (like in oldfort’s family), apparently she decided to woman up and claim this decision for herself.</p>
<p>Definitely agree that having just immediate family at this big transition seems the most appropriate. Happy that our D was able to see this and make the decision herself.</p>
<p>I washed the sheets and have them in a suitcase along with two towels. This kid will have bedding. And packed a super-powerful flashlight. At least he’ll have some light if we don’t get a lamp the first day.</p>
<p>With 11 days til departure I’ll admit I “sprung a leak” last night as well. Orientation info was up and I printed the parents and students packets- and just seeing some of it got me all teary. And I got worried that he’d have to handle this all on his own. He doesn’t really pay attention to details. Hubby swears it’s because he knows I’ll be reminding him.</p>
<p>I had a dream about meeting PN’s son last night. He was hanging out in his room, and apparently he’s in his mid-forties and balding. And he definitely thought it was weird I was stopping by to see his mom. My sons room was the size of a walk in closet.</p>
<p>Yet another lurker here. D1 is leaving for Yale on the 24th. I work for the university, and DH works a few blocks away, so I’m still in denial about D actually leaving home. For her part, she seems much more interested in socializing than getting ready for school, so we just did a little bit of shopping together yesterday for the first time. (I of course already got her a fridge, sheets, cordless vac, and an iron that she will NEVER use, lol.). And as for clothing, she has it flowing out of drawers and down the front of her dresser, but seemed surprised and disappointed to learn that I don’t think she needs anything new in that department. . So far no one in her suite seems to want to bring a TV - amazing! On the other hand, nobody’s talking about who will bring what, either. I’m finding it a little hard to sit on my hands.</p>
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<p>We did the same, except we’re on vacation visiting family and I ONLY brought the Visa card with me. We get gas points so who needs anything else??? Imagine MY surprise to find out they don’t take Visa. We ended up calling them and finding out there are many like us the first semester. So… yes, they will extend until one finishes a vacation - at least - for first semester incoming freshmen they will.</p>
<p>I think I plan to overnight a check instead of paying the credit card fee (which I also didn’t know about). We just have to get home to our checkbook first.</p>
<p>Or is there no fee if I just have them draft it from the checking account?</p>
<p>This is seriously the first place I’ve ever encountered a place not taking Visa if they took credit.</p>
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<p>My guy’s on the quad in Hoeing. I think they more or less group kids somewhat. There are quite a few international students around (and he was to room with one before Emmanuel’s death) and many in his major or close to it.</p>
<p>We may be able to attend a get-together. It depends. We’ll have family obligations (including a niece’s birthday party that day) plus I have a couple of other folks I want to see. I’m hoping it can all fit in. I’ve kind of resolved that we’re going there and what fits in does and what doesn’t, doesn’t rather than spend time wondering HOW it’s all going to happen at this point. Since we’re away from home, I don’t even have the agenda yet. When middle son gets up he can see if it’s online.</p>