Originally Posted by
DukieInKansas
Graduation weekend is coming! Heading to Pittsburgh for Niece Elizabeth's graduation this weekend. Can't wait to see everyong and celebrate. Sister & Brother-in-law are driving so they are taking my wine/chocolate contribution for the weekend. (8 bottles of red, a magnum of champagne, and a batch of fudge - that should hold us for a while.)
Congrats to Niece Elizabeth and the DinK clan!
I retrieved the young Turks, Felix and Oscar, from the dorms on Friday. Oakland was the wrong kind of zoo and we got the heck out of there. They survived their first year with very good grades, no encounters with law enforcement (that me and Mrs. Turk know about), and only one trip to the emergency room.
Back in the day when I was broke and starving, I was extremely grateful when parents took us out to eat (is Darryl's still around?), and I always imagined someday taking the kids and their crew out someplace similar that they liked and melting the credit card to pay it forward. But in this day and age, they have so many food options on the swipe card that are practically 24/7 that they just roll their eyes and say, "It's not worth the hassle. Can we just go get Chipotle or Primanti's instead?" So we make do with a couple boxes of Mrs. Turk's chocolate chip cookies.
"Quality is not an option!"