(Says me, when Dash sees his grandparents how often? Ah well).
Hehe, well, we do all have our own frame of reference after all :)
Sadly, it's a side effect of living abroad, and it's one of the things that makes it hard. You really do miss having that kind of family network and back-up system. I'd love to live closer to either of my parents (which would make it Holland or the UK at present), or Prez's parents (AU). Obviously so that they could see him more often, but also the convenience of having grandparent babysitting in a pinch, and the support you get from family, especially my fairly extended and close-knit and all living close-by family in Holland.
In my small home town there's my mother, and 2 of her siblings live within the city walls (it's a tiny walled city) as does one of my slightly younger cousins, my maternal grandmother lives about a kilometer down the road my mother's youngest sister lives in the next village, about 1-2 km's away, as does one of my slightly older cousins with his wife and 4 kids, one of my other cousins lives another km or two further than that with his wife and 2 small kids, and my mother's eldest brother recently moved to the town across the river, so also about a km away.
So on my maternal side, a large portion of my family is grouped close together, are all pretty close together, and several of my cousins (particularly the older ones, I'm the youngest with offspring at present) have kids in Dashiell's age range. So it's tough missing out on that to be honest, especially when you've been used to being able to just walk up the street to drop in on an aunt for a cuppa and such.
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Date: 2007-09-17 02:41 pm (UTC)Hehe, well, we do all have our own frame of reference after all :)
Sadly, it's a side effect of living abroad, and it's one of the things that makes it hard. You really do miss having that kind of family network and back-up system. I'd love to live closer to either of my parents (which would make it Holland or the UK at present), or Prez's parents (AU). Obviously so that they could see him more often, but also the convenience of having grandparent babysitting in a pinch, and the support you get from family, especially my fairly extended and close-knit and all living close-by family in Holland.
In my small home town there's my mother, and 2 of her siblings live within the city walls (it's a tiny walled city) as does one of my slightly younger cousins, my maternal grandmother lives about a kilometer down the road my mother's youngest sister lives in the next village, about 1-2 km's away, as does one of my slightly older cousins with his wife and 4 kids, one of my other cousins lives another km or two further than that with his wife and 2 small kids, and my mother's eldest brother recently moved to the town across the river, so also about a km away.
So on my maternal side, a large portion of my family is grouped close together, are all pretty close together, and several of my cousins (particularly the older ones, I'm the youngest with offspring at present) have kids in Dashiell's age range. So it's tough missing out on that to be honest, especially when you've been used to being able to just walk up the street to drop in on an aunt for a cuppa and such.