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I noticed something when my oldest daughter was in middle school--- if I let her go somewhere, all of a sudden all her friends' parents also let them go... I had a rep as the hardass parent simply because my dd was grounded so much as a tweener!! So the problem is that other parents might trust me TOO much.
Anyway, now her friend is visiting from Maryland. Her friend is a great girl and she's gone on two mini-trips with us before. She came out to visit Kate over Christmas last year. Her dad has decided that it's a good idea for her to check out some west coast schools while she's out here... So he paid to extend her trip by 1 week so that we have time for a college tour trip. Yay? I mean, maybe I wanted to relax or go back to school shopping the week before the kids go back to school, but I guess I'm taking EVERYONE on a college tour. To LA. Which is not exactly in my neighborhood, but my dd's friend wants to visit UCLA and USC because she's interested in film.. So... Ugh...
I know my dd told her friend that I was planning to take her down to look at colleges in SoCal anyway-- and assumed (as does everyone) that my schedule is totally flexible. Sob.
So we are now heading to SoCal from Sunday to Wednesday next week. I have had a crazy summer of being home for maybe 3-4 days before I have to take off to some other venture. There's been so much laundry involved. I haven't bothered unpacking my travel toiletries bag or putting away suitcases...
For this new trip I have to bring all the kids with me, because Dh's *staycation* week was this past week. And so we need to book 2 rooms or suites. Last minute. In LA. We are booking a place close to Disneyland for 1 night because those hotels are actually the cheapest in the area. For one day I'm dropping the girls off at UCLA and taking all the kids to Universal Studios. The girls are going to find a bus to take them on the 17 minute ride through LA (LOLOLOLOLOL) to USC while the kids and I chill at Universal Studios. We have season passes there. So the little kids are excited to go back to Universal Studios and stay in hotels (they love hotels), but I'm just EXHAUSTED!!!
I can not wait for school to start!!!
And I'm not pissed at the dad or the friend. I really am thankful that someone has lit a fire under my dd's ass to get her thinking college. But I'm just so tired. And this is so last minute so we aren't able to get tours scheduled to some of the schools. I hope they can get a sense of what the schools are like without the tours....
And now that dd is thinking college, she wants to buzz by the Seattle colleges. Because, you know, it's totally practical now. Nevermind that she was only about a 1.5 hour drive away from the Seattle Schools for most of June and July. My parents or sister could have easily taken her there for a daytrip had dd just told me she was interested (which she wasn't at the time). GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Anyway, now her friend is visiting from Maryland. Her friend is a great girl and she's gone on two mini-trips with us before. She came out to visit Kate over Christmas last year. Her dad has decided that it's a good idea for her to check out some west coast schools while she's out here... So he paid to extend her trip by 1 week so that we have time for a college tour trip. Yay? I mean, maybe I wanted to relax or go back to school shopping the week before the kids go back to school, but I guess I'm taking EVERYONE on a college tour. To LA. Which is not exactly in my neighborhood, but my dd's friend wants to visit UCLA and USC because she's interested in film.. So... Ugh...
I know my dd told her friend that I was planning to take her down to look at colleges in SoCal anyway-- and assumed (as does everyone) that my schedule is totally flexible. Sob.
So we are now heading to SoCal from Sunday to Wednesday next week. I have had a crazy summer of being home for maybe 3-4 days before I have to take off to some other venture. There's been so much laundry involved. I haven't bothered unpacking my travel toiletries bag or putting away suitcases...
For this new trip I have to bring all the kids with me, because Dh's *staycation* week was this past week. And so we need to book 2 rooms or suites. Last minute. In LA. We are booking a place close to Disneyland for 1 night because those hotels are actually the cheapest in the area. For one day I'm dropping the girls off at UCLA and taking all the kids to Universal Studios. The girls are going to find a bus to take them on the 17 minute ride through LA (LOLOLOLOLOL) to USC while the kids and I chill at Universal Studios. We have season passes there. So the little kids are excited to go back to Universal Studios and stay in hotels (they love hotels), but I'm just EXHAUSTED!!!
I can not wait for school to start!!!
And I'm not pissed at the dad or the friend. I really am thankful that someone has lit a fire under my dd's ass to get her thinking college. But I'm just so tired. And this is so last minute so we aren't able to get tours scheduled to some of the schools. I hope they can get a sense of what the schools are like without the tours....
And now that dd is thinking college, she wants to buzz by the Seattle colleges. Because, you know, it's totally practical now. Nevermind that she was only about a 1.5 hour drive away from the Seattle Schools for most of June and July. My parents or sister could have easily taken her there for a daytrip had dd just told me she was interested (which she wasn't at the time). GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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