College Kids support group

[Tiggeroo]

This week my first college kid will be home. Her room is already a mess and she just came here and got a ton of boxes.
CK number two also came home this weekend. My laundry area is still covered in the laundry he brought home and he's supposed to be going back to school tonight.
So over the next three weeks I'll have three college kids coming home, two freshman one sr. Should be interesting. This weekend is the first time in awhile they've all been home and as a preview I'm worried.
Anybody want to co-miserate?

 

[Disneymaddness]

I feel your pain. In 12 days my DS is coming home after his freahman year and in 3 weeks my other DS is graduating and returning home, hopefully he will find a full-time job and get his own place! I really dread the 19 yo coming home. He will have to readjust to our rules and that is always painful! I love them both to death but I so enjoy only having one child, my youngest is 13, home. I am going to enjoy these next few peaceful days before everyone returns home because after that there is no peace until August 12 when DS returns to school!

 

[EdiePA]

Gee! I'm feeling kind of jealous, my Penn State junior will be home in 10 days, but only for four days. He's going back to PSU to work in a lab for the summer. This is his second summer away from home and I really miss him.

DS#1 and his wife were home for the weekend and just left to go back to their home in Kentucky.

I'm sorry, but the empty nest isn't much fun either!

Edie

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Don't get me wrong I love my kids being home. That being said (one is finishing sophmore year, one graduating) when the two who live away come home everything will change. My laundry room will be covered - my refrigerator will no longer have any food in it - and I will have to go back to watching them live like bats - they don't go out until I'm getting ready for bed and if they don't have work that day they can sleep till 3:00!

Still it is great to see them. When your kids go away to school its like a yoyo. You get used to them being away, then they come home and you get used to them being back and then the separation anxiety starts all over again when they go back! Ds who is graduating in two weeks (YEAH!) is going away to Law school in August so nothing has really changed.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

You mean they come home?

 

[Snowysmom]

Older DS will be coming home at the end of May. The dynamics change a bit when he is home but I really like having him home. He has a full time job for the summer, keeps his room clean, helps out, can occasionally be a pain but overall it is nice to have him home. Then I dread the feeling I get when he goes back to college in the fall. As bad as I feel about DS going back to college, DH feels even worse. I hope everyone has a good summer with their college kids!

 

[Kteacher]

Mine comes home in 3 weeks. It won't be so bad for us as he's been coming home some weekends both semesters. This weekend he actually talked about working for my husband's construction company this summer, so I'm hoping that means no late nights and sleeping till 2:00 p.m.!

 

[ozarkmom]

Wow I'm lucky to just have one in college right now. He came home this weekend and brought as much of his stuff as he could. This week is it then he'll be home for the summer. I can't even walk in his room. I thought he'd been pretty good about washing clothes but my laundry room is filled with his stuff. He still has clothes and fridge and other stuff to bring home I hope we have room!

 

[OhMari]

When mine come home, I help them get organized. So while we organize their stuff, we get talking and then I tell them, they cannot revert back to expecting me to do all their laundry. I think the laundry is the thing that kills me the most.

Luckily all have to get up at 5:00 a.m. to be to work at 5:30 & 6:00 a.m. This really kills their nite life, except for Saturday nites.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I love when they're home. It's the first week or two of everybody getting used to being around each other that's tough. The one son has already been leaving hints that he's not going to appreciate any rules this summer. My sons come with 15,000 friends who are all living at our house.
My one son also told me that this might be his last summer home. He's a runner and he wants to spend summers training in Colorado. I'm already dreading this. I'm walking the fine line between encouraging him and telling him I don't want him to go.