Children heading back to uni tomorrow

TrulyMadly

Hi everyone,
Is anyone travelling back to uni tomorrow with their offspring. Our youngest heads back tomorrow and oldest next weekend. Will miss them so very much. Trying to remember the positives like reduced heating bills and eating what we want when we want. Has anyone else got any "plus points" that will cheer me up?

Browntoa

no more "taxi" jobs for them at some ungodly hour of the night !!

savemoney

I wish my youngest would taking longings she is doing my head in coming and going, untidy madam. I got two at uni but both are living at home

rosalie-lavender

We took both our boys back on Tuesday. The house is definitely tidier and there is much less washing. I do their washing when they are home because it is more convenient to do everyone's washing at once. No more shoes left for me to fall over-bright enough for a science degree but not for knowing what a shoe rack is for.:rotfl:

I miss them already though, and I also miss their friends that visit when they are home.

TrulyMadly

I seem to worry more about them when they are at home. I think it's because I don't know what they are up while they are away! I've spent a few nights lying awake until3 in the morning wondering where they are and if they are safe. And yes being a taxi too. I'll not miss that. I can never remember my parents running me around. Do you think we are all too soft?

rosalie-lavender

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I seem to worry more about them when they are at home. I think it's because I don't know what they are up while they are away! I've spent a few nights lying awake until3 in the morning wondering where they are and if they are safe. And yes being a taxi too. I'll not miss that. I can never remember my parents running me around. Do you think we are all too soft?

Where I live the bus service is infrequent and unreliable so if they want to go out they often need a lift home. It does do away with the laying awake worrying though because if they are going to be out very late they sleep over somewhere. We sometimes end up as hosts to film nights and gaming days and I get up to a lounge full of bodies. They are well behaved even if they are a bit noisy so I don't mind. My eldest was really ill before he went to uni so I love to hear the happy sound of laughter and fun.

When I was a teenager I had no-one to run me around but I did live in a town with a decent bus service so it is different for my three. It was also possible to walk most places which it isn't where I live. My husband is the taxi as I don't drive. My DH isn't working due to ill health and it does help to give him a purpose to his day, so it is good in some respects that he is taxi. We just do what is right for our family circumstances and if other people think it is soft then that is tough.

System

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Has anyone else got any "plus points" that will cheer me up?

Food bill plummets

nearlyrich

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I seem to worry more about them when they are at home. I think it's because I don't know what they are up while they are away! I've spent a few nights lying awake until3 in the morning wondering where they are and if they are safe.

Mine are early 20's now both independent I have exactly this situation when they come to stay. We were just talking about it in the pub the other night with a friend who's son is at uni but has been home for the break she was saying she had been worrying about him driving in the windy weather the other day;)

tubbee2

only the youngest left at university now and he went back today. We will miss him of course but at least I won't wake up in the middle of the night to the smell of burning food - on his return from evenings out with his friends over the Christmas break he has incinerated bacon, sausages, pizza, various party type food offerings, and last night he set fire to two hot cross buns he'd jammed in the toaster before falling asleep. God only know how he manages when he is at university!

Oldernotwiser

Having your house to yourself again!

TrulyMadly

Yes having the house to yourself is nice. DD off to Birmingham tomorrow and DS to Chicago the week after (study abroad Leeds uni). It's his 21st birthday the day after he flies. Think that's whats making me feel emotional! Never mind the shower will stay clean!