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[boxofdelights]

I'm waiting for my baby to come kiss me goodbye before she goes to college. She and her dad are driving to Portland today and tomorrow. For a going-away present I covered a cigar box with candy wrappers and filled it with stationery, envelopes, an address book, stamps, and a pen. I also got her a copy of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. I'm not sure about what message that sends, although I suppose "Have a magical time, and don't get pregnant if you can possibly help it" isn't really a bad one.

And this is my other baby's second week of high school. They grow up so fast!

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

*snif*

and that's a great message.

my first month of college was way harder on my parents than on me. hang in there.

[boxofdelights]

thank you

[wcg.livejournal.com]

They do grow up fast, and yours have grown up pretty well too.

Wish her good luck from me, if you happen to see this before she gets there. I'm sure she'll do well.

[boxofdelights]

Thank you! Helping Thing Two with his homework now.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oh golly! That's a great going-away present...hugs to you as you make the adjustment.

[boxofdelights]

Thnaks!

[eeyorerin]

I hope she loves it!

[boxofdelights]

Book or college? Either way I hope so too.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I walked with the Chun man to his first day of public school Kindergarten today, and feel full of butterflies. I was a stoic mum when it came to La Petite Academy and Kindercare, but not for the highly rated Van Arsdale Public School.

And I miss you.

[boxofdelights]

How did he like it?

I miss you too. Hey, now that I no longer have to ask the teenager if I can borrow the car, I can visit you! You free next week?

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Wow. I am msotly not free next week, as I'll be in the concluding stages of being skinned alive. But I anticipate driving up to Loveland Monday to deliver tax paperwork-- a major part of the skinning-- and would love to come further and see you. Does that work at all for you?

[boxofdelights]

Yes it does. The boy wants the computer; I'll send you email tomorrow.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

If it should have arrived, it didn't. OTOH, notification that you posted this reply didn't arrive, either. :(

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

And then, financing Sheeyun's excremental cycling mania, including going to the Denver Botanical Garden this afternoon to meet him after the Deer Creek Ride, which ended nowhere near there, means that tomorrow goes on finishing the F-ing taxes. I will drive up Tuesday.

Have I told you that the church treasurer, told last autumn to include my housing allowance on my W-2, didn't, and hasn't issued a corrected one though asked a month ago? (I was slow to ask because of the horror of knowing how it would be.)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the Kindercare driver who picked him up told me that Chun Woo was marching when she arrived-- a private rather than a corporate march, Chun Woo tells me-- and that when she asked if he had a good day he said Yes. I wrote note to his teacher this morning asking for her help in getting him over shyness about bathroom permissions, however.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[boxofdelights]

hugsback!

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

Best wishes to all three of you. Nixie will probably have a blast.

[boxofdelights]

Thank you!

[snippy]

I repeat my offer of a home-cooked meal and a place to do laundry free once in a while, or to be taken care of a little if sick.

[boxofdelights]

That is so kind. I'll let her know, and I look forward to meeting you when I go visit her.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of you and of her, as this transition approached.

I think those are great gifts, along with all the less tangible ones you've been giving her. I think it was after she finished first year (in a fabulous integrated western-civilization-overview program in a small residential university) that I encouraged our daughter to read Tam Lin. I can tell that she liked it because sometimes she quotes it in LJ/DW, and because she talked her father into handing over his copy that he didn't appreciate sufficiently

[boxofdelights]

Thank you. I've always been sure I would not be a helicopter parent because I rear competent people. But! but! she's so far away!

[cordelia_v]

I think those are very fine gifts. And yes, it does go so fast. But she's going to have a marvelous time, I'm sure.

[boxofdelights]

I do hope so!

[minniethemoocha.livejournal.com]

Ohhh! Your dear little chickens. How magical and freaky. Your take on Tam Lin is good medicine for growing girls. <3

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I hope she has a wonderful experience! Orientation week (http://web.reed.edu/orientation/schedule.html) was very nice, IMHO, and even though my violetclm will be a senior this year, he'll be at some of the orientation week events again because (1) as he's been in Portland all summer for his internship he's already there, and (2) he has a friend visiting this week who will be starting her freshman year at a different Oregon college next month, so she'll enjoy the previews of college life.

I gave him Tam Lin to read back when he was researching colleges, actually.

[toad-hall.livejournal.com]

that's a really nice gift. best wishes to all of you :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I am so excited for Nixie! I think Reed will be wonderful and overwhelming and mindstretching for her.

Does she have her mailbox number yet? I would love to put together a little care package for her. In particular, I thought she might like to have my "Reed College Orientation 1989" T-shirt - if not to wear, then to hang on her wall for a sense of history.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

So can you see her in this photo (http://www.reed.edu/convocation/archive/2010/images/class_of_2014.jpg)?