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#101405 - 01/02/07 07:35 AM
Baby birds home for break
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
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So, my baby bird has been home fulltime since Dec. 20. I have to admit, although I've loved having her home and we've done a lot of family activities, she has driven me a teeny bit mad with her messiness. Dirty dishes, dirty drinking glasses, dirty clothes everywhere. She'd clean up just enough if company was coming over, then revert.
Well, I figured, okay, she's been working full-time ever since she came home, I'll cut her some slack until after New Year's. So I planned to lay down the law tonight and force her to clean up. So guess what? Last night she had a frenzy of energy and began cleaning before I even brought it up. Her room is now clean, there's a row of bags ready to go to Goodwill of clothes she no longer wants (and she informed me she'll come home during lunch and get them), and the only mess is on our pool table which she has been using to sort things she wants to take back to college. I can live with that!
Just when you think they're hopeless, they can surprise you.
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#101407 - 01/02/07 04:42 PM
Re: Baby birds home for break
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
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Ohmygosh, yes, the baby birds bring their buddies. Not only friends, but the older sisters have been coming by too. They say "Hi" to me, then troop downstairs to hang out with their sis. It's nice that they get along, but oh the mess they leave. New Year's Eve, we had daughters #2 & #3, #2's husband, #3's best friend, and #2's best friend and HER husband. Considering we didn't know we were having ANY guests until about 7 pm, this was interesting. However, they provided their own food and (kinda) cleaned it up.
My daughter goes back to school this weekend too. I hope she has a better semester next time, this one was a challenge. She was sick with colds half the time, but won't have marching band to contend with now, just concert band - that may help. She goes to school in the mountains and it's COLD.
She's only 90 minutes from home or was - since a rockslide obliterated half the road, she has to take the other route - now two hours from home.
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#101408 - 01/03/07 12:09 PM
Re: Baby birds home for break
[Re: dejavu]
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dejavu the apple does not fall far from the tree....your baby bird knows her manners. My daughter also cleared her room...would not have me there.Filled Goodwill bags too.She is not a student(in her thirties)but the great thing is she is not tempted to buy things to replace the Goodwill .She is clear that we all buy too much.She has said her drawers and cupboards have to close comfortably and she feels better NOT buying. Mind you she has abundance of things. Mounatin Ash
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#101409 - 01/03/07 02:35 PM
Re: Baby birds home for break
[Re: Mountain Ash]
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
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Well, today baby bird is sick. I think she might have the flu. Hope it's not gonna get me! (I had my flu shot, fingers are crossed)
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#101411 - 01/06/07 06:31 PM
Re: Baby birds home for break
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
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Okay, baby bird is back to school. Already having a roommate problem. The roommate is a friend from high school but they had a lot of differences last semester about things like drinking (my kid doesn't but roommate does), smoking (ditto), and other problems. The roommate also did not have a car on campus so my daughter was always the chauffeur (never any help with gas money either). I urged my daughter to either get a new roommate or at least get more of a backbone but she's still a bit wimpy. Well, the roommate was going to bring her own car this semester so my daughter came up to college today with all her stuff to get her room in order and the roommate was going to come tomorrow.
Well at noon today, after we were already at the college, the roommate calls to say she didn't sign up soon enough for a parking space and now they're all gone. She wanted my daughter to drive back home tomorrow and get her. I put my foot down on that idea.
There are other parking spaces available, just not on campus and they cost a little more. The roommate needs to bring her own stinkin' car and I feel really strongly about this. She was just plain rude on a regular basis all last semester. I've known this girl for about 4 years and I've really lost my patience with her.
So we'll have to see what happens. When I left, my daughter already had a stomach-ache over what she's expecting will happen. GAhhhhh. All part of the growing experience of college but I hate it for her.
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#101412 - 01/06/07 08:50 PM
Re: Baby birds home for break
[Re: dejavu]
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Registered: 03/10/06
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Oh how I remember those days when my girls were in college. No matter how you think a roommate situation will work, it often doesn't. Think about it...living in close quarters with someone when you probably always had your own room while living at home with family you loved and knew all your life. Talking on the phone in front of others, having to turn the lights off even if one of the them still has homework to do or wishes to watch TV. Getting sick in the same room with a healthy person and wanting your privacy and so on, and so on. It is soooo hard. Personally, I would hate it. I remember my girls calling home in tears over who didn't clean out the hot pot with the dried up noodles in it or who let her boyfriend come in and sleep over while she was in the other bed! Tons of stories going way back. One of my daughters had to go to the RA on the floor and then to Housing and be moved. It really can create a nightmare for all concerned. I wish your daughter the best...sometimes we think we know people but learn we don't!
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#101414 - 01/09/07 05:35 AM
Re: Baby birds home for break
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
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My daughter's roommate's parents, as soon as she was in college last fall, left the state and moved to Florida. Apparently for them, out of sight, out of mind, and that's one reason why my daughter has always felt guilty if she turns her friend down for any reason, because the girl gets so little help or encouragement from home. I'd have a lot more sympathy myself if the girl ever showed any appreciation, like at least not bitching about no smoking in the car.
The roommate finally got a friend from home to drive her and arrived without any sign of hard feelings, so that's good, however she now doesn't have her car on campus so there will still be issues ahead, I'm guessing.
Today there's expected to be 2-3" of snow on campus! Hello, new semester!
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