Class of '18 nattering as they head in different directions.

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Hope this works. On phone with dodgy signal.

Thoughts with those with already deposited DC. chocolate hope all goes well for DD.
DS goes a week today. Asda shop done for kitchen/bathroom stuff, and we've vaguely planned order of events on day so we can help him unpack/food shop, but clear off early!
He annoyed he forgot to buy plastic cups for beer pong - little does he know DD has got him beer pong for present. Was made up to find I'd put a bottle of jaegermaister aside for him (was in drinks cupboard).

Petals - not an apprenticeship - she's completely left education which is rather scary!

Ursula I'm very envious that you're abroad enjoying yourself. Have a lot of fun and ignore any messages about off milk or other such nonsense.

We have dd's y13 prize evening tomorrow. DD is getting a prize but I don't know which one, and she is unaware that she's even in the running for anything. She's preparing for an evening like the y11 one where she'd hoped to get something and didn't because they wanted to celebrate effort and exceeding expectations (which they absolutely should) rather than specific attainment (where DD would have had a prize for something)

I'm now downing limoncello on the balcony defending Zara Phillips on another thread.

Happy Days.

Happy Days indeed!

I hope it's a good prize MrsAD

Thanks you for all the good wishes. I cracked and texted DD this afternoon, I got a text back 2 hours later saying all good, will text properly later, That was 5 hours ago so hopefully doing well.

DS1 doesn't go back for another 3 weeks, and that's to help with Freshers, he doesn't start for 4. Having just got rid of DD's pile we will start getting DS1's back out of the loft soon.

Also trying to sum up enthusiasm to post on the Y11 GCSE thread, but I might try and ignore it for another week. DS2 is cracking on happily so I don't feel the need to be involved too much just yet. He has helpfully pointed out that A level options evening is in January, which feels much to soon!

Ursula please have one for me too. A very large one!

Also trying to sum up enthusiasm to post on the Y11 GCSE thread

Is it still mixed ability or have they streamed it yet?

chocolateworshipper
Best of luck to your DD in her new job!

We've been sitting on the sofa watching the Bodyguard. Then dd appeared and there was no room for meeee...I couldn't make head or tail of it unfortunately and kept being told to shusssh when I asked questions.

Ds1 has now sworn he is going to do something useful or helpful tomorrow.

I've spent today deep cleaning my bedroom. Removing photos from surfaces. Trying to get the hotel look. Not easy. The cat spray in the drawer was an issue - just why that particular drawer was a target we'll never know but I had to throw away various Cds (cat obviously objects to 80's musak) and I have found a miracle product which is called the Zero Neutraliser. Breaks down molecules apparently. It may have other uses once ds has left

Someone has just said the magic words "you are both the most annoying people I have met" Telly with the family is a lost art.

Ursula she is missing you and trying to lure you back.

chocolate I think she is going to have a great time. There is social life in the evenings AND at work and no homework. She'll never have that Sunday evening shiver again. Is she living at home; I'm sure you said but it is very nice change when they leave early and come back in the eves, very different from college routine.

Lonicera so many of my friends' children had Gap Years and all very much benefited from it, also changed their ideas about what they wanted to study, earned money, travelled, grew up a lot. And got to visit everyone else at uni and see what they thought.

Third I don't know. I got so far through the posts, people were putting their reasons for stating grades/not stating grades. I think I'll check back in a while and see if its settling down.

Chocolate good luck to your DD this week.

DS1 wants his girlfriend to join DH & me when we take him to university. They've only been together for two months but are inseparable.

In my mind I had imagined it being just DS1, DH and me, but it's DS1's big move, and if having her there helps him then that's the important thing. It helps that she is lovely.

Evening all! Just catching up on the weekend's exploits - I've been away with a bunch of friends in deepest darkest Wales with no WiFi!

Envious of your holiday in the sunshine Ursula (it rained the entire weekend in Wales) and of your limoncello - yum! (Although after the amount of gin consumed over the past 2 days you'd better not have one for me or my kidneys might fall out!)

Hugs and Well Dones all round to all of you who've done the dreaded drop off this weekend - I'm taking heart from the fact you all survived and are here to tell the tale.

Kitten hugs to you too, I hope the things making life difficult start to get easier soon. If my DH panic bought cream cakes every time I had an inexplicable cry I'd be the size of a house. Oh wait a minute . . !

Chocolate a huge good luck to your DD for tomorrow! An enormous step towards being an actual real life adult - hope she has a great day 🍀

I am back from an extended dropping off period with dd.

I am glad we went early as she really benefited from the chance to settle before the crowds descended.

The most annoying thing is that the two large boxes we sent to arrive on the Friday didn't come. Some of it is stuff that she doesn't need immediately but we had to buy some extra things and she doesn't have her manual chair which she had planned to use around the halls. They are supposed to arrive tomorrow but I won't be there to help her unpack.

As ds goes back on Tuesday and there has been so much to sort out for dd, I haven't had much time to really process what is happening. However I didn't sleep well last night ( I was staying with my Mum in dd's university city) as the realisation hit that I was going home without her today.

DS1 isn't going for another two weeks and I'm already starting to feel a bit wobbly.

Today I gave myself a stern talking-to, pointing out to myself that 100 years ago, mothers were sending their 18 year olds off to war, with very little contact and no certainty that they would return. What I need is a grip and some perspective.

NoHaudinMaWheest hope the rest of her stuff (chair included) arrives without delay so she is equipped to access everything.

All best wishes to those whose DCs have already departed. I know I worried about DD1 being out and about in a strange new city.

The rainy day box is done. The last small spaces were filled with Freddos. On Thursday DH will do a bread and milk shop for her then early on Saturday we are off.

Good luck to your daughter Chocolate! Hope she enjoys her first day at work.

Third and Raspberry the GCSE thread has calmed down now and got over the high achievers/normal DC thing. Be nice to see you there.

My younger two aren't doing GCSEs until 2020, so I get a year off!

NoHaudin well that stinks doesn't it? All that effort in planning and packing and you're let down at the end by the professionals.

It has finally hit DS that there isn't much "later" left. Too bad, you'll just have to do that thing when you get there. The things he needs to buy, I would have paid for but as he's not made it a priority to get to a shop he'll have to pay for it himself. It's part of the learning journey.

Good luck to Chocolates dd!

for everyone who dropped off their dc at various locations this weekend.

NoHaudin I hope they arrive today and that someone is able to help your dd with them.

Good luck to your DD Chocolate. The first day at work is nerve wracking.

I somehow missed this thread (and whatever came before it). My DD started uni last week but - yay! - will continue to live at home as dorm too expensive. So far, much calmer at home all round!