Mother, daughter share

Daschels attend UW

SEATTLE - Mother Jacie Daschel and her only child, daughter Josie Daschel, have always been close.

So deciding to live together as college roommates appears to have worked well for the two Moses Lake women.

They became roommates in time to kick off this year's fall quarter together at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Jacie, 44, is attending the university's law school. Josie, 19, is in her second year at UW earning her business major.

Jacie said her last university experience was 22 years ago, while pursuing her bachelor's degree in finance law at Portland State University.

She worked with many attorneys after college when she entered the business valuation field valuing closely held companies.

"I admired some of the people I worked with and thought that what they dealt with was interesting too," Jacie said.

She said she also wanted to be an attorney in high school. Jacie applied to UW. She learned she was accepted on June 1.

"I said "Jos (to Josie), are you sure you want me for a roommate because I got accepted," Jacie said. "She said, 'yeah, I think so." They also liked the idea of sharing the cost of rent.

During her time at UW, Jacie said she's starting to realize the amount of work involved.

"At first, I was keeping up," Jacie said. Now she has to buckle down and keep reading, she added. "Sometimes I think I'm crazy," she said.

"I felt pretty good about my understanding, it's just a lot of work, a lot of reading," she said. "I sort of just assumed, you wouldn't have to study all the time. You've got to, you always have to be reading or writing a paper."

Jacie owns Discovery Ford and Honda in Moses Lake with her husband John and returns to Eastern Washington on the weekends.

She keeps in touch with the business during the week by e-mail and she usually attends Friday work meetings in Moses Lake, she said.

Rooming with your parents isn't for everyone, Josie said.

"Other people I know can't stand being around their parents," Josie said. "It really just depends on the relationship you have with your parents and if it would work."

"I'm really close to my parents," she said.

Josie said the experience has been fun so far. She hasn't met any mother and daughter roommate pair, Josie noted.

"Maybe siblings, but never the parent," she said.

Josie lived in a dorm last year. Her neighbors liked to stay up until 2 a.m., even on mid-term night, she said.

"I would have to knock on the door and ask them to quiet down," Josie recalled.

During her freshman year, she would talk to her mom on the phone and they would go over Josie's class papers.

"She was always there to help me with homework," Josie said.

As roommates, Josie cooks more than she did at home and she does more chores in their Seattle apartment.

But overall, "it really hasn't changed a whole lot from home," Josie noted.