College moms, how is it going?

I left youngest DD at university on Saturday and we have messaged daily since. She seems to be having fun, enjoying the orientation events, making friends, classes are ok 😉, etc.

She had someone take her “first day of school” picture for me.

She texted me the other night that she won sex-toy bingo...I asked if she shared that news with her father lol. It was put on by the Sexual Health Centre so I’m sure there was some knowledge and advice imparted along with the awesome bingo prizes.

I am official empty nesting for now as my oldest who goes to school locally is an exchange student this year but i’m not new to it as my exDH and I had shared custody so I’m used to an empty house. And really, the kids and I “talk” every day which sometimes didn’t happen when we were in the same house.

Hope everyone else and their kids are doing well too!

Dropped the boy off on Friday, stayed in a hotel and then took him to lunch and then Walmart on Saturday.

He has called or texted almost each day and today for his first day of classes, he sent me a first day of school picture. <3

The dog is really missing him and I think I will start missing him more as the weeks go on.

I happen to have a literacy conference at his university in a couple of weeks. I'm going to take his gf up and take them out to lunch.

I dropped Twin A off 2 weeks ago, and she seems to be doing well, although she's already acquired athlete's foot from the shared showers. She's my higher-strung, harder to get along with kid, so I'm glad to hear it's going well so far and she's building a friend group. She's working in the library and loves her job.

Just dropped off Twin B on Saturday. We departed a couple of hours before they kicked the parents out because she was already off and running with friends she had met online. This kid gets along with everybody and makes friends everywhere she goes. She hosted a chocolate milk party last night and made pasta for a bunch of friends tonight. She has a week-long orientation process and won't start class until next week. I just hope she can roll back the socializing and focus on studies. I think her school is going to be a lot harder than she's anticipating!

I fear we'll see our senior every weekend because several of her close friends graduated and she was gone last spring and summer for a semester and internship in NY, making it harder to maintain connections. She REALLY wanted to stay in NYC and is a little grumbly about being back in Texas for her last year.

We've only been kid-free two days so far, so it's hard to say how I feel emotionally. The house is darn quiet, though.

My two are starting their 3rd week. I have a Jr and a Freshman at the same University. My Freshman daughter rushed so she had a busy first week and then she got sick the first week of school, thought it was strep but ended up being viral. She was very busy attending mandatory sorority events as well as Fraternity “events”😂 DH and I went down Saturday for the first football game. She doesn’t seem to be homesick, I think she’s been too busy between school work and her social events. Her roommate is a friend from home. They’ve been friends since about 4th grade but they aren’t Bff’s so I think that has helped. Her roommate is outgoing and has made some friends outside of DD too. So they hang out but not all the time.

DS moved into a new apartment with 4 other roommates, one of which he already knew. One roommate has a girlfriend and she’s like the 6th roommate, lol. But they like to cook so they make dinner almost every night for all of them, they all just pitch in for groceries. So far it’s heen working out pretty well and they seem to get along well. We stayed there after the football game, some alcohol smoothes over parents crashing the pad😂 Hopefully he will be able to declare his major next semester.

A week Saturday seems to be fast approaching for us.... too quickly   I'm not sure how we are going to manage to get everything in the car

we dropped DD off on the 24th and classes started the 26th. DH went down on Friday to pick her back up as the U. was closing for Dorian. She goes back this afternoon as classes resume in the morning. It was an unexpected week at home but we've enjoyed it.

Her classes are more reading/writing heavy than she expected - although looking at her course selection, I'm not surprised - she has Creative Writing, Writing for Digital Environments (honours), a King Arthur Literature class plus French 3 and Ballroom Dancing. And she's stressing a bit because she ordered books online and with Dorian, the postal service (both USPS and the college mailroom) have been disrupted.

Ods likes his classes and professors. This semester he will spend time in a classroom at the local middle or high school in order to prepare for his teaching credential program. He is in a townhouse w/3 other guys. Each has their own room and so far so good.

Yds goes back in a couple weeks. He loves his campus and he has a great roommate. They're keeping their apartment until graduation, so nothing is changed for yds. His gf starts school 90 minutes away from him and I'm super excited for her.

DD is enjoying her senior year. Loves having a rental house rather than a dorm or sorority house. She turns 21 tomorrow and is planning a big party with friends. The only stress is getting grad school (Psych PhD) applications done. We was signed up for 18 hours plus lab work and an on campus job. We convinced her to drop down to 15 hours to ease the stress. She'll graduate in May!

It gets easier. Mine are 26 and 24 now and the 24 yo is home again while attending a local school. We love having her home, but I dread the day she moves out again. It's gut wrenching.

[/quote]neisey, how awesome to be an exchange student. I hope she enjoys it!

Supersoda Wow, how are the twins doing going to separate schools?
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Yes! She is in Australia and I get to visit in December!!!

Two in college.  Ds 3 1/2 hours away homesick but ok now.  Dd an hour a way probably doesn't care at all, lol.  She's an independent soul.  I'll see ds in 2 weeks and dd in a month.

Our doggies send selfies every week to our boys! Gives me something to do (sometimes I dress them up which aggravates the boys!) and gives the boys something to look forward to! 

Really hard here. Dropped my oldest off a week ago for his freshman year. I’m still getting daily texts about missing us and wanting to come home. He’s trying to talk to people and is attending some activities in addition to classes but he does not make friends easily. Hoping it gets better soon.

DS (sophomore) is living at home this semester and commuting to a local university (30-40 minutes away). So, after the scramble a few weeks ago of finding out that he wouldn't get on-campus housing (full) AND the close-in (read: walking distance) off-campus places were also at 100% capacity, the "adjustment" is mostly nonexistent. We did have to get him a car (which he loves) and a parking pass but he likes his classes and is working on figuring out campus groups he can join without too much hassle while he's a commuter. (He transferred from a smaller school where he lived on campus, so he has to start over with campus clubs/groups, and it's a much bigger school.) After class tomorrow he's going to talk to some department people about a possible minor for which he already has most of the credits.

He spent some time re-organizing his room to find places for all of the dorm storage stuff from last year that was sort of unceremoniously dumped in his room last May (nowhere else to put it and we were gone on vacation for most of July). We sort of left it untouched (for the most part) over the summer because we figured he'd be moving back into a dorm one way or another...the room organization still needs some work, but he'll sort it out. He's pretty easygoing and doesn't get fazed by small stuff.

I'm happy he likes his classes and I get to see him more often, but a little sad for him that he's missing being on campus this semester. He's waitlisted for housing for spring semester, BUT he might also decide to do that semester overseas (depends how his language class this semester progresses, LOL).