Originally Posted by Maride
She will probably be out with her friends and the time she is home, she will be either on the phone or on-line catching up with her new college friends. I see a free summer for you. You may need to make an appointment to see her. I found that every year my daughter had less and less friends at home and spent more time at home, but not necessarily with me.
This has been my experience as well. They are so busy catching up will all their friends. However, I do find that they tend to leave their stuff all over the house and so there is a little bit of angst getting them to remove their dirty socks or shoes or their laptops from the coffee table when you have guests coming over!!!
I love having my kids home. They are fairly good at spending time with us and having dinner with us. My daughter loves to host "card nights" and has a dozen to 15 of us (we are usually invited cause it's our house) for a pot luck dinner and cards. We have great time with them and all their friends.