Comments on: Back from college

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:35:23 +0000

I love your posts about your family. We are just back from 8 days in DW, DH and I, it was nearly 30 times for me but only 3rd without children. I tried to call only everyother day. DS1 took care of the home and even had DS2 home from college a day to play the new Xbox halo 3 game. They survived, the house survived and I suppose in many ways so did I. Interestingly enough as we walked around, me knitting of course, our thoughts turned to things we would do with our grandchildren. We are quite a few years from that but it felt like we started our walk slowly over the bridge into that phase of our life. My thoughts of course went to knitting, DH said that if and when we get that announcement I was expected to go crazy with yarn purchases as long as he had no holds put on him for toy purchases.
I stopped by during the sneakup but opted out til today and bought some alpaca. Beautiful things as always.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:06:32 +0000

There’s much that I appreciate about Indiana but the flatness is not one of them.

That Alpaca Sox does look very warm and inviting. I think it needs to go on my Wish List. I’m really liking the Ivy. I’m still tryin to find that perfect green.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:05:55 +0000

I had to laugh a bit at the start of your post. My husband grew up in Ft. Wayne and it was so dull they jokingly referred to it as “Fort Fun”. If the kids are going to Ft. Wayne for a good time they’ll be eating a lot of ice cream, and that’s about it! How great you got to go to parents weekend!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:40:56 +0000

My folks could never come for parents’ weekend. I went to school too far from home. So I always ended up adopting someone else’s. That was cool.

There’s a lot of things I did during those four years that make me stop and wonder why I’m still alive to shake my head about it. And a lot of things that my mother is still finding out about, these nearly twenty years later.

By: rohanknitter

rohanknitter — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:14:31 +0000

Yay, Taylor! My brother in law and sister in law both graduated from there – met there too. I was only there once, for their graduation, but we went to Ivanhoe’s after!!

By: Chellie

Chellie — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:27:08 +0000

Sheri,
Wow! Taylor! I grew up in Ft. Wayne- I’m very familiar with the area! I loved Taylor but ended up going up to Calvin College in MI instead- lots of friend from that cornfield though! Glad to hear they are still an awesome university!!

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:42:29 +0000

my parents never understood why i wasn’t as excited about eating brunch in our dining hall as they were – every time they came to visit me for the entire 4 years they acted surprised that i wanted to eat out!!!

By: freecia

freecia — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:05:44 +0000

Uh, I hope you were kidding about the healthiness of poptarts…

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:24:52 +0000

Oh, how I miss college… I went to a little private liberal arts school in the Midwest, and I fondly remember those days.

Have you seen the Yarn Harlot’s Wollmeise socks? Oh. My. Goodness. I knew that “Spice Market” was the color I was wanting, but now that I’ve seen it knit up, I’m positively drooling!

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:40:28 +0000

You wanna see nice dorm couches? Head to Cornell.. lol. A lot of the dorms there have REALLY nice stuff.

Also, that jogging in the middle of the night thing boggles my mind. I just don’t get it.