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23 Essential Tips: How to Prepare for College Move-In Day 2022

Learn what to expect on college move-in day from two moms who’ve been there! We share our top 23 tips and tricks to make moving into a dorm go smoothly! College tours. Filling out applications. Waiting for acceptance letters. Deciding where to go. High school graduation. Freshman orientation. They’re all the steps leading to a …

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The Best College Packing List: Everything You Actually Need

This college packing list includes everything you actually need for college. These are the essentials you’ll really use, plus a free printable checklist. Are you getting ready for college? Or maybe you’re helping your student prepare to move into a college dorm room? Today we’re sharing our ultimate college packing list…everything you actually need.  Without …

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How to Prepare for College Orientation: A Parent’s Guide

Not sure what to expect at your student’s college orientation? Get our 7 tips to help parents prepare for college orientation. Back in the dark ages when we went to college there wasn’t an orientation during the summer after high school graduation.  I mean seriously, we’re so old that we actually hand wrote our college …

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How to Plan a College Care Package Assembly Party

You can assemble a care package with lots of variety when you host a college care package assembly party. What’s that? Read on for all the details! One of my favorite things, when I was in college, was receiving a care package in the mail! In fact, a few years ago I found some of …

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I’m Not Ready | Sharing A Mom’s Heart Before College

I’m not ready. That is the refrain that is running through my brain in an endless loop. Photo by J. Sadoff The year is 1999. It is August and I am preparing a nursery for my unborn child who will arrive in November. I don’t know whether this little person who loves to turn somersaults …

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