tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043124735706669271.post2105790857749626302..comments2021-10-30T09:23:51.085-07:00Comments on The LaLa diaries: On ChildhoodLornahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10025158792713376297noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043124735706669271.post-16764779495290261192013-08-05T18:54:07.869-07:002013-08-05T18:54:07.869-07:00Oh Lord, you can never come to visit us in Scotlan...Oh Lord, you can never come to visit us in Scotland, you would be SO disappointed! I grew up in a beautiful Victorian home, yes, but it was an apartment. With a shared garden and young professional couples as neighbours. We moved to a semi-detached bungalow when I was 11.<br /><br />Being catholic makes the public/private discussion kind of easier for us. It'll be public Catholic school in the UK, private in the US, although I think you escape a lot of the private school trappings with a parochial school here. It's hard though.<br /><br />Road trips are a definite thing to add to her childhood- we used to drive to Wales or Cornwall for holidays (only 10-12 hours, so short by US standards) and I LOVED it. Lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025158792713376297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043124735706669271.post-21075642363447080112013-08-05T18:48:58.877-07:002013-08-05T18:48:58.877-07:00I think that's what we're hoping too- the ...I think that's what we're hoping too- the best of both, but given that I grew up in a big town, it's more the best of Britain and the US. It's hard for me to accept that she will be British AND American, and I have to make sure I allow her to explore her American side as much as her British one.<br /><br />Not having grandparents nearby breaks my heart a little (oh the roast dinners... what I would do for my Gran's yorkshire puddings.) My Gran and Grandad were such an important part of my life, my whole families lives. Aunties and Uncles and cousins too. If we were ever to move home, that'd be the reason.Lornahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10025158792713376297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043124735706669271.post-56682775819068934092013-08-05T00:25:22.287-07:002013-08-05T00:25:22.287-07:00I'm not pregnant (or planning to be for a whil...I'm not pregnant (or planning to be for a while) and yet I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about this and informing my husband how things will be when we have a family! <br /><br />It makes me sad that we will never provide the same childhood as we had - we won't live in the country or a mile from the sea. We won't be able to let our kids make dens deep in the woods for hours, expecting them home when they get hungry. And we won't live close enough to their grandparents for dried up roast beef dinners on Sundays, or for them to be best friends with their cousins. <br /><br />Hopefully, we can give them the best of both worlds though. The advantages of being in or near a city (cinemas, more than one clothes shop, concerts, theatres, culture) and an appreciation of the countryside and coast (fresh air, wildlife, long walks, more freedom). aDizzyGirlhttp://adizzygirl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043124735706669271.post-72492877101208154222013-08-04T22:34:43.320-07:002013-08-04T22:34:43.320-07:00I love this post. Absolutely love it. I was nodd...I love this post. Absolutely love it. I was nodding yes, yes, as I read it. Your childhood sounds divine. Is it sterotyping that I was picturing you wandering around in the professor's mansion on rainy days discovering wardrobes that led to Narnia? What? No? You didn't do that?!?<br /><br />I've also been thinking about what kind of childhood we want our baby to have. That's what's pushing us to imagine moving away from LA (don't worry, not any time soon). But we keep picturing our boy roaming around the woods on our property with Monte Version2 and exploring nature. I worry too about the addiction to smart phones and mobile devices and what not...especially with an addicted mamma and a daddy who makes his living in software development. Eeek. I also don't want him to grow up getting stuck in some of the "categories" of attending public schools in LA. But then I don't know how I feel about private schools? Agh. So who knows.<br /><br />My childhood memories? They include riding my horse through the fields and jumping into mountain lakes and going on road trips with our family and playing Monopoly at Christmas time. I hope I can re-create some of it :)JustMehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02493032821722724778noreply@blogger.com