Friday, January 24, 2025

5 on a Friday: Things I will miss about Harry

 1. It was SO WONDERFUL to wake up every day for the past 5 weeks and know that all my kids were also waking up in the same house and I knew where every one was and I could feed them and take care of them and this is why people hate their mothers in law, isn’t it.

2. It was also WONDERFUL to have another drive and another big bro, although I will say that Jack has really stepped up in this regard since Harry moved out.

3. Harry is even more terminally online than I am, so it was SO NICE to have another person LOCKED IN to everything political happening and reading all the breaking news headlines. Ben has zero patience for my doom scrolling, and I will very much miss having a partner in crime, even though I will probably be better off without an internet enabler.

4.  Harry has been eating crappy dorm food for months, so he was VERY HAPPY to eat home food, whereas the rest of us are just used to it and complain about it. 

5.  Harry, Jack, Ben and I played SO MUCH euchre! This is not the same without him because we play in life partnerships, and he and Jack are brothers, best friends, and colleagues, so it’s perfect.

BREAK IS OVER, and he drove his own self back to campus like a grown up. He’s in Minnesota for a speech tourney this weekend and is committed 3 weekends next month, but still! He has promised to come home one weekend in February, and we will see him over Spring break in March. Not sure about April, but he will be home for the summer in May! That’s practically tomorrow.




3 comments:

  1. That was a nice long break he had! Mark is 30 minutes away so he comes home for Sunday dinner every week (and to do his laundry). But last week one of his roommates had norovirus so he stayed two nights with us and commuted, and one evening he was digging into some cinnamon loaf I had made and sighed "Oh god, the food is so good here." SARAH. It was the best thing ever. He eats in the dining hall about a third of the time, the rest of the time he cooks in his dorm (his quad has a little kitchen).

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  2. Kaethe4:12 PM

    It is so great to have college kids home for a long break but so hard to send them back! My daughter is a freshman at UW and I keep secretly hoping she’ll be in the background of one of your campus pictures! Or maybe something Kae posts when she’s in Madison!

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  3. It must be so hard to have them go back to school like that. My daughter lived at home while in college (and still does, failure to launch around here), so I never had to go through this stuff.

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