ILY.
I am very proud of you, for your having arranged it that you have SO Many excellent options, regarding your immediate future. (I think you already know dad is proud, too.) You created the best possible potential outcomes for yourself. Dad and I did a tiny bit on our parts - the parts that were available for us to help you with - but make no mistake, your college [also pre-college] career & your actual available grad school options are some of your life’s finest achievements, by societal standards, already!
YOU have gotten yourself to this point! You took the phrase “you go, girl” - and you basically took it about as far as it could possibly and logically go!!!
(Besides all these many accomplishments of school and work type, you are a fine and caring person [who categorically does what it takes to get a given job done, and who apparently almost always conducts herself in a way that elegantly & effectively gets herself through the moment and situation at hand]. All those other early approach-to-life accomplishments of yours came before the academic achievements, and I think, played a part in enabling them. One example (of very many) from the distant recurring past that you can smile about: you were doing this with your achieved & way-way-way-overachieved (!) reading lists 0-4th grades already. YOU HAD MASTERED DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO GET A JOB DONE EFFICIENTLY & ELEGANTLY, EARLY ON. By Kindergarten, I would have to insist.)
I hope the rest of your week goes smoothly and nicely for you, and I really look forward to seeing you! I also look forward to going through those parent activities that are fun & interesting for me (mostly classes & group presentations meant for parents, so I can better understand the experience you just went through, and what it offered you). I booked you for a lunch and an event, but your reservation is free to you and me, so if you need to get out of one or more parent weekend event, that will be fine. I was just guessing that maybe you’d like the exposure to the mass greetings & messages - hearing what the parents and a more general audience are told about your college - and maybe a slightly different version of food service than is more typically available. There is a mass greeting & intro lunch, and a "goodbye seniors and parents" cocktail-ish event the next day. I am scheduled or suggested to take my student to dinner the last evening. It would be cool, if you are available for that evening, if you could round up any of your friends to whom you’d like to offer a free evening meal with you and one of your parental units, and suggest a place.
Since your communication with dad this morning, I decided it would be one less variable if we arranged our morning trips to the airport independently. I figured it would be one more concern for 2 people on your end (you and your fellow student who is also going to the airport) to have to consider and rely on my very early morning arrival with the car. (And I do like the idea of the car being at or very near the airport, for your return.) Therefore for my last night there, I booked myself a motel near the airport with free shuttle. Perhaps you could just drop me off at my airport hotel the night before, we can say our goodbyes then, and then we can all be freer agents the next morning? [How cool is it for you, that you're getting comped trips to prestigious gradual school programs?!]{"World according to Garp" reference}
I don’t mind at all if you need to be late in picking me up, because of your early evening commitments. I will have things to occupy myself with.
Thanks for making the car available to me, for my use while I’m down there.
Thanks very much in advance for the ways you’ll be helping me, while I’m visiting for parents’ weekend.
“Hi, offspring 1.”
{Something [positive] I communicated today.}