My son's favorite book was Moo Bah La La La. I think we read it 17,928 times!

When my ASD son, 26, went back to the psychiatrist, I was the one who filled out all the paperwork for him and I mentioned some of the issues. What I did was fill it out as if I were him (with his permission and he gave the answers) but then it had another section for "any other info" and I filled it out and said, "This is being filled out by his parent, with his permission" and then I rattled off some things I thought he should know. We are struggling A LOT with ours. I feel really bad for him but I don't know how best to help him.

Yes! I didn't even factor that part in. They will get the master bedrooms and en suites if there is one. It isn't like a dorm where all the rooms are the same. I guess I think there is always going to be a little bit of uneven if we rent together rather than separate hotel rooms. But the cost difference is huge. Hotel rooms run about $150/night vs. the shared condos at between $25-$50/night depending on the location. So, the couples are still saving $$ by doing it this way. I had booked a conference center first. It was recommended to me. Think Christian conference center with very sparse/rustic rooms, no TV, no carpet, just a bed, table, dresser, and basic bathroom. It was going to be $50/night and they charged per person anyway. I changed it and am now staying in two 5 bedroom condos with two kitchens, two living spaces to hang out, a gym, free full buffet breakfast, TVs, carpeted areas for noise reduction, a washer and dryer, etc.....and it is CHEAPER! It is $25/night per person. Half. It just made more sense to me. This is for the first several days while we are all trickling in.

No one has questioned it or said anything to me in complaint, I was just really curious what some of you would do. I guess it would be easier if we were staying in ONE location the entire trip and only needed to book one place, I would have dug a bit and found the exact configuration that would suit us, etc.....but due to various configurations of locations, it is difficult.

Ok, I figured answers would vary. That's fine. So, the complication is that we are staying in 7 different places and they all have varying bedroom configurations. Two of the places have 10 bedrooms, two have 9, and one has 12. I could do it per bedroom but if there are bedrooms left over, I am certainly NOT covering them. But the costs are the same....so the 12 bedroom is in a more rural area, so it cost the same as the 12 bedroom, etc....we may only use 10 of them, and that is ok. I am doing it per person for the AirBnBs and per room for hotel stays (we have 2 hotel stays and 5 Airbnb stays.) When I go to the beach, we always get an AirBnB and just do it per person, some share, some don't. And sometimes so many share that there are left over rooms! So who would pay for the left over room? Sometimes the 10 bedroom place is cheaper than the 8 bedroom place, for example. So, how would you divide all of that? Who pays for the empty rooms? And we have an odd number of singles, so then the one odd man out has to pay double when they really were willing to share, etc....and no, asking someone else to share is not really an option. several sets are brothers or mom and daughter. I have one single female cousin who will be the "odd man out" for every single stay. I just don't feel it is fair for her.

I will tell you how I am doing it and there haven't been any complaints about it, but I was curious how you all would either divide it or how you would want it divided. Let's say group of 12 people. You rent an AirBnB together. You rent 10 bedrooms because there are two couples going. The others don't want to share a room if they can help it Do you divide the cost 12 ways or 10 ways? Do you pay per person or per room? Would it matter if there were 12 rooms but two people chose not to stay in them because they wanted to stay with their spouse? Let's also give some real numbers. So, the cost of the AirBnB is $1,200. Would you charge $100 per person or would you figure it out as $120 per room? Let's assume food is factored in differently for the purposes of this question. This is ONLY for lodging. And "just ask the group" isn't quite an easy question. The consensus I have gotten from everyone is, "Just plan it and tell me how much I owe, I don't care." but I was curious what you would do if you were in charge.

@Condessa I am so sorry. This month I am not sure. I think this is the last payment for the year for my two sons in college. Although we have to pay rent over the summer even if they won't be there......grrrrr...... We are saving for the trip, so that is what I will be focusing on. My goal is a set amount per month to put towards the trip.

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A LOT of stuff came last night. 3 packs of socks, 14 baby dolls, hacky sacks, 12 hats. THANK YOU so much!

Today is my mom's birthday. She has been gone for 4.5 years. For some reason, it is hitting me particularly hard this year. Not like I am crying a lot or anything, but I am just feeling a general malaise. Not much getting done today. Pretty much next to nothing. I did do a load of laundry though. Oh, and it is the first day of my spring break and I have been exhausted, so it also may just be me finally releasing that tension and stress.

Side sleeper usually, sometimes back. Fan/White noise, earplugs when I am traveling, CBD or Delta 8 or Benadryl (melatonin does nothing for me)\

6 today! That was hard for me.

We have coyotes and wolves and hawks, but no bobcats.....cool.

Kind of. We don't use them that often, but yes. But they are related to their actual names......so similar to Topher Grace who said the way he got "Topher" was that his name was Christopher but everyone on set kept calling him Chris and he would correct them by adding "Topher" and then that part stuck and now his nickname is Topher. Our nicknames are similar, they take a part of the name, but not the usual part.

I was not up last night, but I am now and I am praying. Mental Health is so hard to deal with.

Socks will be used and I will take them! THANK YOU! I now have additional suitcases to take stuff too, so it should all fit. As soon as everything arrives, I will see what fits in the suitcases I. have. I was given 3 check in (26") suitcases and then one of the donated ones had $31 in cash in it and I don't even know who donated it (I was given the suitcase by a woman who collects them for foster kids). I used that $31 to buy 2 large Samsonite suitcases for $40! So, I ended up with 5 checked bags for $9 out of pocket and all the suitcases are Samsonite (3) or TravelPro (2). YAY!

We had an egg hunt. I made lunch and we have eaten. I am organizing and cleaning a bit. 2 loads of dishes (one done!) take up boxes to attic spaces unpack 3 boxes I brought in clean master bedroom

I have 4 checked bag size suitcases in my DH's office that we paid a whopping $8 total for! Most of them were free. Two TravelPro suitcases and two Samsonites. And this board helped me finish my purchasing for the orphanage! WhooHoo! I need to be a bit frugal for the next 3 months to save for our big trip. I. have already paid for our airline tickets.

You do!

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My cousin is a Vet. She didn't become one until she was 40 something! She had a hard time getting into a Vet school here and ended up going to a great school in Scotland. Not sure if that would be an option for your DD but she loved it. She also loves being a Vet. She is in the process of buying her own Vet clinic right now. Does your DD want to do pets or farm or exotic, or what? I ask because my cousin told me that if she had put on her application that she wanted to study to be a Vet for farm animals, she would have had a better chance of getting in as there aren't enough of them.

If we aren't using the suitcase for souvenirs, we can just leave them there. The 5 large check in bags are all either freebies or very inexpensive, so I don't care if we lose them, but I need something with a shape so it doesn't get squished or damaged. I am not a fan of duffle bags really. Things are harder to find in them, they get squished, etc....

Thanks all. I picked up 2 Samsonites today from FB Marketplace, 4 wheels, spins, decent shape, and large. I think I am good with checked bag sizes now, I just haven't needed a large suitcase in a long time! I need to pull out all of our suitcases that are carry on, we may have 5, if so, we are good now. I have an under-seater, which I have never used before, that I plan to take.

Yup, that is what I have too, but we don't have enough.

You can also order things from there to be delivered to your house.