Reading Bossy’s excellent post this morning about shopping with her son for his college dorm, I couldn’t help but reminisce about our experiences sending a child off to academia for the first time…more specifically, reading Daughter’s housing contract which made me laugh even as I wondered what our baby was getting into.
The contract expressly forbade the following items in campus housing:
Fish with teeth
and
Carnivorous plants
Since Daughter will be moving to Chicago and into an off campus apartment next week, I’m planning to buy her piranhas and Venus Flytraps.
My little girl is growing up.
7 comments
Anastasia says:
July 25, 2008 at 1:51 pm (UTC -5)
that’s so funny…my daughter (4) has a storybook about a carnivorous plant, so she’s convinced she wants one. I guess it’ll have to wait.
Trudie says:
July 25, 2008 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5)
I like your approach! You’re a good mother in my books.
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Jennifer H says:
July 25, 2008 at 11:32 pm (UTC -5)
She’ll have to put up caution tape by the time you finish.
I like the way you think.
Margaret says:
July 25, 2008 at 11:34 pm (UTC -5)
Yeah, I remember tearing up when we sent little Quagmire off to boarding school with a taser gun and green M&Ms. {SIGH!} They grow up so fast, don’t they?
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Jenn @ Juggling Life says:
July 26, 2008 at 11:56 am (UTC -5)
My son hasn’t even moved into the dorm and he’s talking about a house off campus for a dog and a snake. He was disgusted that all you can have in the dorm is a goldfish.
Alice says:
July 26, 2008 at 11:10 pm (UTC -5)
What the…? Why in heaven’s could you not bring a carnivorous plant?!?! Nutso.
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Lauren says:
August 5, 2008 at 10:59 am (UTC -5)
That’ll be quite the interesting room lol.