The comment about where they now live and consider to be home is interesting. If dd doesn't go back to until the end of January she will only have just over two months until the Easter holidays. She will actually come home on my 50th birthday and we are all going away for a few days. After Easter she then has about another 4 or 5 weeks left, possibly with a few exams after that.
That sounds like no time at all and then she will be back for the summer, hopefully with a job again. If some dc consider they have left home, do they not come back for the holidays?
I'm hearing from her much less and she seems quite busy with work. I'm not sure she feels she has many friends yet and it seems quite fluid still, but she is definitely calmer. She has a few pre Christmas things lined up, ice skating, panto, club parties, lunch out etc so I hope some friendships will be cemented. Still no plans for a house for year two but ive tried to tell her not to panic about that. Some people who were sorted a few weeks ago might not be any more.
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mrsrhodgilbert · 28/11/2013 15:33
DS has gone back today 
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Isthiscorrect Enjoy your last few days/evenings. the time passes so quickly. Does his uni have rooms to book for visitors rather than you having to book a hotel in central London?
Oh dear kez - I am so sorry, I am just getting over it and DS has just gone down with it today - so we know we are in for a couple of sleepless nights. I am so glad that A he doesn't go back until 2nd Feb and B we have more than one bathroom! He was supposed to go and get all the hairy cut off this week, too. He will look like a caveman soon as he has thick curly hair when it gets long. The beard is utterly pathetic though. 
Sorry that some of you are coping with poorly offspring during your precious time together. Hope you all get well soon.
Picked DS up from Heathrow on Sunday. Only have him with us until Thursday then he's back to uni for exams on Saturday & Monday. Despite his girlfriend making him shave his beard off while he was in the States it's already back with a vengeance
Hi Spoony and welcome. 2000 miles that must be hard.
As you can see this thread is part 3 and started years ago. I suspect there are more and more MNers now whose children are growing up and going off to uni than there were when the first thread began, .
Some posters are old hands with more than one DC away from home and there were a lot of us joined in September when our first ones went off.
People pop in and out. It goes quiet for a bit then people come back.
DS was home 4 weeks at Christmas and went back last week. I for one am finding this unexpectedly much harder than when he first went.
He's just gone back and for the first time in nearly four years I am bereft probably because he's only been home for days not weeks. Usually I am quite happy he's going back but not this time. The lovely thing was he said he felt the same all say ah
Spoony that's how I sometimes land up feeling every September.
He is a real contradiction - very independent, working abroad last year and in a serious relationship with someone on another continent but when he's home for any length of time it's often like he's a teen again 
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Kez, enjoy having her home again! I am feeling a bit down - we drove DS back to London today and his room hasn't been cleaned since he left at the end of last term. It's in desperate need of a hoover and the bins hadn't even been emptied. Was a bit depressing for him to go back to and I'm feeling cross that the halls are charging so much money and not providing the weekly clean promised in the contract
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