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[quote=Anonymous]Huge OP.  This was me last year.  Luckily my DC spent some time fouling the net - nothing too terrible, but jsut enough for me to start thinknig boy it sure will be peaceful when eldest child is not here.

Turns out DC was quite homesick, luckily was only 3.5 hrs away, and either we went there a couple of times (for football in the fall), or once a month they came home.

One of the things that really worked for me was throwing myself into work more - not having pickups or drive me here and there was SO FREEING especially on weeknights.  I worked late some nights, or went and did something after woerk with friends.   I also picked up a couple of hobbies.

I had been lgiht friends with some other moms with kids also going to college.  We actually became closer and got together every 6 weeks or so, and we pulled together themed care packages to mail.  There were 5 of us, and so we'd set a theme, like orange, and we'd each buy 5 items of a couple of different things - candy in an orange package, fake pumpkins, notepads or sticky notes, silly things like cheap sunglasses, etc and then get together and make up 5 care packages.  And we'd all text what we were buying and also share info about our kids - it was really nice.  [/quote]

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