Glad to hear all DC are doing well–retaking Chemistry still counts as “well” to me–with no major disasters.
So glad you are better @HappyFace2018
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Thanks so much everyone. Our sweet girl has enjoyed her first year at GW. She was just elected to the GW College Democrats Executive Board last week!! Between her classes, her sororities philanthropy/recruitment activities and the GW Dems…she’s been a very busy bee all year long. GW’s Honors Program has been interesting this year. A few weeks ago the program lowered is required GPA (for sophomores, juniors and seniors) from 3.4 to 3.0. I guess that 3.4 mark has been difficult for the students to reach.
Just found out DS’s last exam and move home conflicts with exactly the same athletic event for DD that I missed last year. I am torn. Would love to be able to do both but have not found a way quite yet. DH and I may have to divide and conquer again this year. I’ll try to be creative before I resign myself to that. I know that if I send DH to move out it will mean all the work of organizing will get done after it is all here so I prefer to do the move out and teach DS how to organize it all there this year in the hopes that he can do it on his own next year. Now, how to find time for both events, get it all in my newish vehicle and figure out where to store it once it is here.
DH is moving DS16 out, and I’m ecstatic . No cleaning or packing for me , woo hoo.
Good for you @carolinamom2boys !
I also will be doing no cleaning. Just supervising and doing the puzzle of getting it all in the containers and vehicle. DH would throw out anything that was not an easy fit and leave it to me to buy new next year, if I let him. $-) ~X(
Since DS brought the car back to campus with him, it’s tempting to let him move out on his own since I think he can fit everything in it if he doesn’t have any passengers. But, we haven’t been on campus since the fall so I think at least one of us will make the trip there with the SUV so we can load up both cars, clean out the rental fridge to avoid a security deposit loss :). He’s got about 5 weeks to go still, so it was hard when he left after visiting for Easter.
DD has a car with her and will be moving out on her own plus bringing a friend that needs a ride home (friend is storing all her stuff) friend will help with gas and keep her company for the 6.5+ hour drive. I have asked DD repeatedly if she’s sure she can fit all her stuff in her car. She says since she’s leaving her instrument on campus (actually renting it out for a one week summer camp and making some $$) that she can fit everything else in the car. I guess this is a benefit of TINY dorm rooms! Worse case she’ll donate/sell her small microwave if she needs to make room, her apartment next year comes with a built in microwave so it’s not an issue.
Moving out will be interesting
We are using the GW Storage program offered through UPS. They provide three large boxes, tape and labels (she picks them up from the location a few blocks from her dorm). After she packs them with all her winter clothing (coats, boots, sweaters), bedding, printer, books and left over toiletries… she tapes up the box and puts a label on it. The storage company picks up the boxes the first week of May before finals. They’ll even store a shelving unit we purchased/put together (so we won’t have to take the thing apart!). They will deliver the boxes to her new dorm in August (she already has here dorm assignment for next year).
We’ll actually be able to see out the back window on our 10 hour drive home :))
We had considered that @HappyFace2018 as well, but we are only 3 1/2 hrs away , and DS doesn’t have that much to move . My husband is a good packer , so it should run smoothly .
I have absolutely no idea how we are going to coordinate the end of year move in two weeks because my d has decided to stay on campus for the first summer term, take a course and wants to work. In fact, she does not yet have housing set-up. Our back-up plan is for her to stay in a dorm room. She says that there are lots of people looking to sub-lease their apartment over the summer and seems confident she will be able to find something. However, she is now sick (running a fever- flu) from over-doing it after missing a few days of school for the NDA dance nationals and getting caught up on missed work. She had a couple of job offers- but they conflicted with the research class she is taking this summer. So, she is still trying to get the work thing figured out.
Last year my DH went alone to help D15 move out of her dorm room after her last exam. Her exam ended at 4pm. She told DH to arrive at 4:30 because she was all ready to go. It’s two hours away so they figured they would be home in time for dinner. HAH! I think they made it home by 10:00pm. I was very happy to have given that experience a miss.
:)) @mom23travelers
@carolinamom2boys I wish that were the case for us. There is no way our car would fit the things we took, the thing we bought while we were there and the things she’s bought while she is there. Next year will hopefully be better because we are praying she’ll get an internship in DC. She earned enough points to get a room in her sorority dorm (with her roomie who is also in the same sorority). She can live in that dorm for two years before studying abroad (summer between junior/senior year). If she gets an internship (summer between sophomore/junior year) she can stay in the dorm over the summer.
@mom23travelers
Thanks for the chuckle. That sounds exactly like what we will be going through at this year’s move-out. I will tell hubby to prepare himself. He is a very organized person and will, I am sure, be surprised by the state of her room at move-out.
All this talk of move out. 
Both of my kids are FAR out of state. DH and I flew with them to move them in as freshmen, but they have to handle move-out themselves. D14 stored her stuff at her roommate’s house the first summer, stayed in her college city the second summer for an internship but ended up having to move twice due to a housing problem. Is staying in the city again this summer, but moving out to the suburbs for her internship, then back to campus in the fall. She doesn’t need anything from me except telephone moral support!
D16 has to stay on campus through graduation due to her campus job. She’ll store her stuff on or near campus, depending on which option works out, then fly home for a few days before leaving on a summer study abroad. She’s taking a car back to school with her in the fall, so move-in/move out should be somewhat easier in the future.
Oh wow @Parentof2014grad I can’t wait to get to that point! Congrats!
We brought S’s bike home and the fridge will be pitched so I think it will all fit at move out. I completely forgot that our older S had a roommate from a coast (school in Midwest) and we brought home a bunch of his stuff each summer too.
@HappyFace2018 I think I made it sound too easy! We’re just too far away to help so they’ve had to sort things out. It hasn’t been without a fair amount of stress and worry, but it gets done. I can’t tell you how much I would have liked to be there to help when D14’s housing situation turned bad last summer. We’ve been thankful for the help of the kids’ friends, and one of them has a more local family member who has shown up with a car at least once.
Maybe my kids are a good example of our kids being able to do things by themselves when they really have to. Still, if they were at a school within driving distance, I would have been there helping.
Woohoo! Have worked out the move home so that I get to see most or all of DD’s athletic event and DS should be nearly packed and cleaned by the time I arrive. It is just a matter of which city I will be sleeping in on the night in between and how much driving I choose to do in one day. :-bd :bz 
@Parentof2014grad I totally understand. Kids amazingly adapt and excel. Our sweet girl has done a great job. She had to remind me more than a few times “mom, I can handle it on my own.”
@Cheeringsection Great Job!