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Matt came home from college to visit this past weekend. It was a very nice surprise for us, as we really didn't expect him to return until his birthday weekend later this month.  On Friday, he called and said that many of his friends were going home to get things that they'd forgotten, so he would rather come home and watch his brother in the band tournament.  Actually, it was good timing because the time I have missed him most was at last week's high school football game.  It just wasn't the same without seeing him in the marching band and up in the stands with the pep band during the game.  Susan and Scott drove up to get him right after he called, and picked up another of Matt's friends at a different college, on Friday night.  It was great having Matt around the house again.  I drove him back on Sunday morning so he could get his reading done before class on Monday.  Sounds like his schedule is quite demanding, with lots of reading and writing of papers in his humanities and political science classes.  I have a feeling he'll come home like that once in a while, but also think that a trip home may be too much of a disruption to the normal routine of studying, eating, hanging out, etc., and that most of the time he will just be staying up there on weekends.  Maybe in a few weeks or so , we can go visit him and watch a concert, go to a museum or something.   That would be nice.