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Just a 3-minute walk from Garmisch-Partenkirchen Train Station and the cable car to Zugspitze Mountain, this 5-star hotel features a spa with pool and a restaurant serving Bavarian food.
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Kind personel
Very bad internet reception. The bed is too small for a tall person. The shower floor was extremely dirty. Restaurant food was too expensive for the given quality.
Location and proximity to the town centre is very good. Use of secure underground car park (for motorbikes) was an added bonus. Rooms are spacious, clean and comfortable, pool and wet area is very good and food (breakfast) choice is excellent.
Nothing that I can really say I didn't like - addition of snacks with the afternoon tea would be a nice touch :)
Convenient Location, nice staff, good breakfast, nice pool and sauna facility for a Hotel of its size.
Nothing. The available afternoon tea would benefit having at least one cake on offer - even at cost.
The staff were very attentive and helpful. My husband and son are both disabled and they were able to make accommodations to help them both. They even set up our own table at breakfast so my husband could easily get around and my son could be away from the crowd (he has Autism).
The beds were a little harder than we're used to, but we really enjoyed our experience so much that I don't think it really mattered to any of us!
Location balcony breakfast staff lounge area
Shower in bath very difficult for older people.
Kind and helpful staff. Great breakfast. Good location, close to the center.
Old room Small bathroom Room a little bit noisey
The frond desk offered immediate help with heart and efficiency.Good location on the main shopping area and 10 min walk from the main attractions. Wi-Fi and parking.
The frond desk lady offered immediate help with heart and efficiency, which is not often found in B & B anywhere in the world. I am totally impressed by the quality of their reception staff.
The hotel was exceptional- they made us feel special. The location was great, rooms very comfortable and the food fantastic.
A traditional type hotel, with a large tea lounge, sauna department and a small garden. Nice and helpful staff. Good breakfast, excellent location, free parking. Nice balcony and view.
Room was small and bathroom tiny. No TV in lounge (though not a big problem).
Staff very friendly, location excellent for town. View to Zugspitze spectacular. We will return for Christmas. Breakfast was plentiful and fresh.
No tea or coffee facilities in the room.
The flowers in the garden.
Very very old hotel, bad furnitures, no air conditioner, noisy, curtains does not block the sun's rays, bad breakfast, one of the restaurant's staff was misbehaves.
good location, comfort
Very helpful reception staff. Central for all activities.
Cost, , we were there for the BMW motorad so the prices must have been raised.
Location, breakfast, and the indoor pool were awesome.
Size of rooms, thought there was a balcony but small rooms.
A "suite" for four was actually two connecting double rooms. Very desceptively advertised and priced. Very dissatisfied with the two "suites".
Rate a bit high for quality and size of the room
Great location near the railway station and the center of Garmich but still a pieceful street. The staff was very freindly and helpful. The sauna department gteat and food in the restaurant delicious.
This was a great hotel with their own dining room! We arrived late and could just go downstairs and eat! Fabulous and the meal was fabulous. This hotel has the best pillows that we have experienced in a German hotel! Everyone in the family commented on them the next morning!! Got to love it for that if for no other reason. Easy access with parking.
We had a regular room which was fabulous but had what we call a European Shower...no shower head attached the wall that you stand under with a shower curtain or door. Apparently they do have rooms with the type of shower we prefer so next time we know to ask for a deluxe room.
Location; in the centre of town, near shops and restaurants
The overall state of the hotel is quite outdated. It could use (needs) an overhaul. Although, it provides for a great retro-look into the 1960's era.
Mountain view, delicius breakfest, classy service. 10 minutes walking towards train station and Zugspitze train. Close to centrum.
Cold room, I think we came into no heating saison. Our room and bathroom were in woren off look and condition. About balcony is hard to say something good. Standing there with a close to collapse feeling. Really weak WIFI.
The room was big and bright, bathroom with the bath tub and nice small swimming pool. Very nice and professional staff, great breakfast.
hotel was close to all ameneties......a nice looking hotel with friendly staff
Exceptionally helpful staff on reception desk, ample free parking, delicious breakfast, amazing views from our bedroom window.
Lack of coffee making facilities in the room
A little outdated.
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Way of the Clans
|Way of the Clans
|Product information
|Robert Thurston
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|Bruce Jensen
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|Jeff Laubenstein
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|6 August 1991
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|Legend of the Jade Phoenix
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Way of the Clans, by Robert Thurston, is the first book in the Legend of the Jade Phoenix trilogy. It chronicles the early life of Aidan Pryde, future hero of Clan Jade Falcon. The novel is also the first story written from the point-of-view of the Clans.
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| In the 31st century, the BattleMech is the ultimate war machine. Thirty meters tall, and vaguely, menacingly man-shaped, it is an unstoppable engine of destruction.
In the 31st century, the Clans are the ultimate warriors. The result of generations of controlled breeding, Clan Warriors pilot their BattleMechs like no others.
In the 31st century, Aidan aspires to be a Warrior of Clan Jade Falcon. To win the right to join his Clan in battle, he must succeed in trials that will forge him into one of the best warriors in the galaxy, or break him completely.
In the 31st century, Aidan discovers that the toughest battle is not in the field, but in his head—where failure will cost him the ultimate price: his humanity.
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Aidan is one of the genetically engineered elite born from the bloodline of the Ramon Mattlov/Tania Pryde sibko. Unknown to the Clan Jade Falcon sibko, Galaxy Commander Ramon Mattlov's characteristics of quietness and dark looks all while having the strength of a hero are apparent in Aidan. His resemblance is put as being his near twin by Ter Roshak, the cadet commander who fought alongside Mattlov until his death. Much like Mattlov, Aidan assumed quickly the status as head of the sibko and worried heavily about the well-being of his clansmen, not a respectable clan trait according to Joanna.
Aidan is quickly singled out by Falconer Joanna, his trainer from his first day on the frozen homeworld of Clan Jade Falcon, Ironhold. Falconer Joanna challenges the sibko to fight her. She easily defeats the rest of the sibko except for the relentless Aidan. After the fight, Falconer Joanna instantly singles him out and he gains instant love from Marthe, another member of the sibko. Reluctantly, over time Falconer Joanna's attacks grow fiercer until it is evident that Falconer Joanna will kill him in her brutality. Falconer Joanna's methods are challenged by Ter Roshak and Trainer Ellis, whom she kills over the issue in a trial, as being excessive and unclanlike.
The main goal of dividing the sibko stems from the individuality of the Clan warrior. Joanna pushes separation. Seeing Aidan's love for Marthe, she sexually requests his presence frequently and as Marthe scores higher than Aidan in every category still ignores her merit. Near the end of training there are only a few members left of the sibko, and Marthe grows apart from Aidan, hinted at as jealousy and anguish from her multiple attempts to be like Falconer Joanna.
The trials are the stage after sibko training where a MechWarrior will define his status and entrance into the clan warrior caste. The day before the trials, Aidan's last friend Peri regretfully is exiled into the Scientist caste. In his trials Aidan, kills five freebirths and attains his position to pilot a Summoner. He loses out to Marthe, who attacks Aidan's 'Mech for the opportunity to become a star commander. Aidan in his defeat resents his reassignment to astech. He flees to Tokasha where he meets Peri. Ter Roshak sends Joanna and Nomad after him. They capture Aidan and bring him back.
Ter Roshak kills Jorge, a member of a freebirth trainee unit. When Aidan returns he is placed into the freebirth unit that he had humiliated as Jorge. Ter Roshak watches him carefully as he earns his right to lead the freebirth unit. Shortly after Aidan's unit is given the trial of position. Aidan makes a plan to work together with Horse, a freebirth who recognizes him. Since trueborns will only attack one 'Mech at a time, Aidan uses this to his advantage to win his trial as a freebirth over the trueborns, led by Falconer Joanna. This ensures him a place as a freebirth MechWarrior in the Jade Falcon Clan.
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- Cadet Aidan
- Falconer Joanna
- Cadet Marthe
- Horse
- Falconer Commander Ter Roshak
- Diana (mentioned only)
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- Ironhold
- Tokasha


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In his decade leading the Hawks - Jay Driscoll, Luke Strege, and Jon Perry - have all assisted Bell for a few seasons and moved on.
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For the first time during his QU tenure Bell has hired one of his former players to be his top assistant.
Anderson returns to Quincy after playing at Pepsi Arena from 2003-06 and helping the Hawks to a pair of NCAA tournament berths.
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Anderson earned his master's degree as a graduate assistant for two seasons at QU before heading to the junior college coaching ranks for five years.
"His experiences in coaching over the past few years outside of QU will serve our program well as we forge ahead," Bell explained.
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June 4, 2009
Trying to decide just how close to move to our kid's (very enthusiastic) grandparents. If you've experienced the childrearing-with-nearby-grands situation (as kid, grand OR parent), how did it work out? Any advice on encouraging involvement while still maintaining boundaries?
My family (me, husband, infant daughter) will soon be relocating for work reasons. Conveniently, this will also put us in the same area where my parents live. We're currently in the process of house-hunting, and most of what we've seen falls into one of two categories: either very very close (5-10min) to the folks, or moderately far away (~35-40min).
Both of my parents will be retired within 5 years and have expressed interest in babysitting, which is a definite plus. I'm a little concerned, though, because my mom, while awesome, is a pretty dominant person, not great on dialogue, and has already started to be mildly critical of my parenting choices (nothing major; just your garden-variety lecturing about how the baby would sleep
much better if I'd just put her on her stomach, how I'm buying into Internet hoohah by opting for phthalate-free baby items, etc.). I'm wondering just how complicated it will be to keep a loving and open relationship with the grands while still maintaining my nuclear family as a separate entity and emphasizing to everyone that Mr. B and I have the final authority as parents.
Since geographical proximity will obviously matter a lot in how this plays out, I'd love some perspectives from grandparents, children or parents who've either loved or hated having the generations living very close to one another. (Obviously, a lot of this will depend on individual personalities, but I'm hoping others' experiences will alert me to considerations that might not have occurred to me.) Bonus points if anyone can speak to the boundaries issue, but really, I'll take commentary on any part of the situation, pros and cons alike. Thanks!!
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We have a toddler son and no family nearby. My family is a 6-7 hour drive away and hubby's family is a 2+ hour drive away. It's so hard not having family in the area. Yes, I wish we had the free babysitting but it's more than that. It's having another place to go that's still "home" but not the home you live in, when it's raining or snowing for weeks on end. It's being able to list someone as the emergency contact on a school form and knowing that your child is as important to them as she is to you. It's being able to go to a doctor's appointment without making complicated arrangements. It's sharing the everyday moments that make life rich, not just the religious holidays and birthdays but Valentine's Day and Grandparents Day at school and baseball games and piano recitals and just everything. It's having that continuity of life through the generations that we miss. We see my family every couple of months but for me it's not enough. We can't move right now but I'm working on it.
I'd opt for the closer house and just do to your mom what I do to my MIL: smile when she offers an unsolicited opinion, say something innocuous like, "oh is that right" and then ignore it. Or shut her down by saying, "yes, we considered that and we've decided to do this." I also occasionally ask her advice about something so that she'll feel like she's contributing. (But I never take it).
Good luck whatever you decide. I'm jealous you get to live by your parents.
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I don't have kids, but my parents live walking distance from my brother and his kids. I also grew up within 2 miles of my dad's parents. So far it's worked out well in both situations.
When I was growing up it was a nice quick easy option to have someone else pick us up from school if need be, drop us off there for an hour while something needed to be done, or any other duty that might take another set of hands. It also gave me a great relationship with my grandparents that didn't exist with my mom's parents who I only saw on trips to go visit.
AFAIK my brother's case is much the same way. They send the kids over to "Gom and Pop's" place when either of them needs to get get some work done or just need a nap.
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on June 4, 2009
We moved closer to our families when our first born was about 18 months old and I am soooo glad we did. Having reliable babysitters nearby improved our lives greatly and watching my kids form tight bonds with their grandparents is fun. There were a few power struggles, but I eventually learned to let the petty things slide (bedtimes, junk food) and only battle for the things that were life-threatening (like making sure the car seat was placed in the back of their sedan, not the front seat of their pick-up). I found that the phrase, "Humor me" was really effective. "Yes, I may be buying into the internet hooha, but please...just humor me and use the bottles I brought, OK?"
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Well, our children's grandparents wouldn't know a boundary if it fell in their laps, so for our sanity we've always maintained a buffer zone of 1 hour by car. No "pop-ins" are possible, it's still close enough to enjoy each other, yet far enough away that they can't enmesh themselves in everything.
So if I had your decision to make I would be choosing the 35-40 minutes away area.
As for my childhood, my one grandmother lived 5 streets over and I saw her almost daily. My other grandmother lived 3 states away and I saw her a couple times a year. I was far and away closer to the one that I saw less. Distance does not prevent a wonderful relationship, just as proximity does not create it.
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Growing up, from about age 11 up through high school, my grandfather picked my brother and I up from school every day and watched us for a couple of hours until my parents came home. Sure, it was partially a way for him to sneak an occasional cigarette away from my grandmother's gaze, and at the time we didn't need much watching and we chafed from time-to-time at having him around, but now that he is gone, I realize just how important that closeness to him was. We learned a lot from him and from his radically different upbringing that still serves me to this day. I often find myself telling my daughter little facts I picked up from him, and it really makes me (and her) happy to know I learned that from Grandfather.
It's an excellent opportunity you've got here, and while the relationship between parent and grandparent can be tricky, it is well worth figuring out a way to make it work. As a parent of an 8 year old, with no family in the area, I can't tell you the amount of personality disorder I would put up with to have access to reliable and free child care.
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My sister's family lives less than two miles away from our mother. It's a win-win situation. There's absolutely no good reason for the fragmentation we see in modern families. The grandparents (in most cases) offer viewpoints on life that the parents haven't gleaned yet, tend to be more laid back and less focused on how well the kids appear to be doing, and generally offer the kids a larger sense of family and community that couldn't be had if grandma lived across country or even across the big city. The free babysitting is a bonus.
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I love my family too but with a dominant and critical mother. I live about 45 mins away from my parents and that distance is great for me. My sister is about 15 mins away and she is much more dependent on them and they are all up in her business because of the proximity. My nana lived in my house growing up and raised me while my mother was working. I loved it and have very fond memories of her and what she taught me (although she too was pretty domineering to my mother). Even if you are living close you don't need to see each other everyday, it depends on how comfortable you are in setting and enforcing boundaries with dear old mom.
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We have a six-month old son. My wife's mom is living with us for the time being to help out, which is great, but has some of the issues you've brought up. She clearly loves her grandson, but has some different ideas than we do about parenting, mostly around structure and safety things. (I'm for it, she thinks that because her kids turned out fine without worrying so much about everything, we're being overly cautious.)
I think Kangaroo and jrossi4r have it - if the grandparents just offer an opinion that you don't agree with, just say 'oh, thanks' or 'that's interesting' and move on. If they push it, or do something that you really don't agree with, then you have to let them know that you're the parent and they need to respect that. Remembering that it was about my child's best interest and that I needed to do what was necessary to provide for him helped with the unpleasant conflict stuff. I'm also working on choosing my battles and letting the small stuff go, which is important. You can also use the pediatrician as a bad guy if necessary. ("he insists that we have Junor sleep on his back.")
One of the most important things anyone told me before our son arrived was: Children can never have too many people who love them. Try to come at it from that point of view and make it about ahat's best for your child as opposed to what's easiest for you.
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35-40 minutes is not the easiest number for babysitting emergencies, and for just an hour babysitting it's sort of a long trip. I'm not sure you can solve boundary issues with geography alone anyway; at some point you have to put your foot down.
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As a grandparent who lives nearby and sees her grandkids often, one of the issues we dealt with early on was discipline. We finally settled on the plan that when the parents are around, they do the disciplining (unless the kids are doing something that constitutes a danger to life or limb or valuable antiques) but when I am babysitting, I basically set my own rules for what I allow and don't allow. That gets us past, "But mommy lets me!"
I always check before giving any kind of medicine, even over the counter stuff unless I've been given specific instructions in advance. In general I try to follow what they are allowed to eat or not eat, but I finally convinced my daughter that at Nana's house, it's okay sometimes to be spoiled a little.
My biggest advice is to pick your battles...yes, the baby will always be in the car seat when the car is moving and no they cannot have diet Coke in the baby bottle. But allow the grandparents to bend the rules a little bit because, hey, that's what grandparents are for and free babysitting is hard to find.
I get a lot of joy from spending time with my grandkids without the parents there because it gives us the chance to develop our own relationship and for me to see a different personality in them than what I usually see when their parents are around.
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I've lived close to my grandparents most of my life. They were often like second parents to me. Going to their house for a sleepover was a treat for me and my sister since we could stay up half an hour later and we each got a can of fago red pop with dinner. I realized many years later that it was a treat for my parents since they got a night alone once in a while.
It would obviously depend on your family and if grandma and grandpa are willing to defer to your rules for raising the kids. But, speaking as someone who has always been in close proximity to my (large almost stereotypically Italian-American) extended family, I can't imagine living without constantly being surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We lived maybe 20 min away by car, and I remember as a child being jealous of my cousins who were two blocks over from them.
My grandfather died about five years ago, I don't think more than a couple days go by without me missing him or remembering some happy memory from when he was around. I'm fortunate that I have so many memories of him. I make a point of seeing my grandmother at least once a week, and love that we can now also relate to each other as adults. One of the high points of being laid off is we now have a regular lunch day, and I can help her take care of things around her house she's no longer able to manage (under the guise of me needing something to do since I'm so bored without a job and just love sweeping floors of course)
My boyfriend recently lost one of his grandmothers, and remarked after that what hurt the most was feeling like he never really knew her since he saw her a couple times a year due to distance, and now it was too late. I think seeing cousins who grew up in that area also reinforced that they had a closeness to their grandmother he had missed out on. I hadn't really thought about it before, since my experience was so different, but I think I was very fortunate.
posted by
on June 4, 2009
The 35-40 minutes doesn't sound *too* far away -
yeah, maybe too long for very short-term babysitting, and a problem for 'emergency' babysitting, but definately close enough to go for say, Sunday dinner, and send your daughter to stay for the night or weekend when she is older.
I clicked on the 'read-more' thinking "Closer!" because I had a great relationship with my grandparents, and stayed with them most weekends and holidays, but - they *were* 45 mins away and we still had this close relationship, so the extra 20-25 minutes is not such a problem, and might be worth it for your independence.
Distance may indeed, make the heart grow fonder, and it means you won't be tempted into the constant emergency-babysitting which (not saying this would necessarily happen) I have seen to lead to resentment on both sides.
posted by
on June 4, 2009
35-40 minutes away was what I grew up with. I saw my grandparents every weekend (but no my mother's parents as they lived overseas). It was great. Close enough to be close, but far enough to make every Saturday special. I should add, my grandparents were my only other relatives close by, everyone else lived on the other side of the world. My grandparents, however, didn't get called in for appointments and babysitting etc because my mother was a SAHM. So we had a lot of fun times.
My sister in law on the other hand, has my mother in law look after her daughter two-three times a week, and she actually just moved a little further away and is now about 40 minutes drive away. It works out ok because they drop her off on the way to work and they mostly have set days for care but whenever the baby is sick and can't go to day care, MIL takes on extra days. It's a very different relationship than the one I had with my grandparents - a less carefree one, more of a parent relationship.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
One of the children chiming in here. My paternal grandfather died before I was born, and my maternal grandmother and my dad's father passed around the same time when I was too young to really remember them. Once my paternal grandfather passed, his wife, my only surviving grandparents, moved to within minutes of our home. I spent a lot of time with her, and learned a lot of valuable things, from practical cooking to family history my parents would have never thought of to mention. I value the time I had with her, and the advice she gave me. Once you get into the preteen and teen years, you get the parent-hate bug and are more likely to listen to your grandparents, but they still have your child's best interest at heart. She may be a little nitpicky and in disagreement about the little things in your child's life, but that's insignificant enough that it isn't a reason to deprive them of getting to spend as much time with them as possible while they're still around. Let her do things her way when she babysits for you, and you can do things the way you like when your daughter is back with you. When she's old enough to understand, you can just explain to her that some people do things in different ways, but you and her grandmother are working as a team to care for her, as opposed to letting her think that you are two opposing sides. Your mom won't be around forever; let your daughter get to know her and love her while the opportunity is still available. I'm very glad we lived close by- it gave me many wonderful experiences I would never have had otherwise.
posted by
Glitter Ninja
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Grandparent chiming in: unless you have serious issues with your parents (which it doesn't sound like you do, just the usual nitpicking), I'd say closer is better. We live five minutes from the grandkids, which means we get to do a lot of babysitting and they can show up on bike rides and spend lots of time playing in our yard (larger than theirs), and it also means they get plenty of exposure to older people who love them immensely and share different things with them. When I was a kid I loved my grandparents a lot (I got my hat habit from Daddy Joe), and I wish I'd gotten to spend more time with them; my younger brother recently sent me a bunch of old letters from our parents' house, and I discover that my grandparents were nuts about me (and later my brothers) and wished they could spend more time around us. Like Glitter Ninja says:
Your mom won't be around forever; let your daughter get to know her and love her while the opportunity is still available
. The stuff that irritates you now will seem utterly irrelevant later on; the love and sharing will endure.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
Speaking on behalf of my sister, who lives less than a rural concession away from one set of grand parents and about 10 minutes from the other set. One set understands reasonable boundaries, the other set, not so much. The best defence for the nitpicking is to learn the ancient technique of smile-and-nod. For the invasions of privacy ("I happened to be driving by, and..."), the smile-and-"lovely-to-see-you-but-we're-just-stepping-out-now".
Both my sister and I grew up two days' drive from our own grandparents, and we appreciate the closeness of the parental units to the sproglings. I think your decision revolves around how well you are able to let the minor annoyances of day-to-day interactions with your folks slide off your back. Then select house location accordingly.
Good luck!
posted by
on June 5, 2009
When the kids are older it might be nice to have grandparents close enough to ride bikes to.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
Trust me - 30-40 minutes is absolutely PERFECT for creating the relationship and maintaining the boundaries you want and need. Perfect. Get that house. I have been in both situations and the slight distance is exactly what you want, based on your description.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
I've been the mom in your situation, only my mother-in-law was the potential troublemaker. When our daughter was born, until she was 6, we lived 5 minutes away from the in-laws. And even though my mother-in-law would drop snarky asides about my parenting, having them that close was a godsend. We didn't use them a lot as emergency babysitters, but just
knowing we could
was such a relief.
I did have to put my foot down a little w/r/t boundaries, like no coming over while we're gone and leaving organic baby food and ironed shirts. Yeah, they were trying to be nice (and probably thought I was totally worthless as a mom and wife), but I didn't want to feel judged about that stuff while dealing with an infant and a new marriage and working full-time. That was a little awkward at first, but they learned to understand that our little family needed our own space.
My daughter is 13 now, and though we now live a half hour away, she still sees her grandma and grandpa often, and they have a great relationship. Plus they've done things for her that my husband and I never had time for or could afford.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
I grew up about two blocks away from my maternal grandparents. They were almost like a second set of parents: we ate dinner at their house frequently, watched old movies together after dinner, played in their backyard and went swimming in their neighbors' pool every summer, dropped by whenever other family (big Irish Catholic clan) arrived in town, etc. Once my siblings and I started to attend a school too far to walk to, my grandparents were the ones who drove us to school most days. My grandma probably saw more of my soccer games than either parent. We celebrated every holiday with them. This isn't to say we never did things without them (we did all the time!), but that they were really part of our lives. I call my grandparents weekly, these days, and in general we have a much closer relationship than most kids do with their grandparents. My paternal grandparents lived halfway across the country, and we saw them once a year (and talked occasionally on the phone), but I never had that kind of relationship with them. I loved them, but I didn't know them very well.
It's not always easy, of course; my grandma tends to take charge, and tends to try to tidy things up without much regard for our organisational schemes, and I know that that was stressful for my mother. She also felt that as a recently-divorced mother who was struggling to get back into the work world, she was too dependent on her parents. I'm not sure how much conflict there was over child-rearing decisions, but by the time I was old enough to remember things, my family must have worked things out. Despite the occasional stress and disagreements, I don't think any of us wish things had been arranged differently.
posted by
on June 5, 2009
I grew up with my maternal grandparents living in the same neighborhood, less than 15-minutes walking.
I don't remember specific things when I was really little, but I know I would walk to their house after school every Tuesday when I was in elementary school, and my brother would already be there because of half day kindergarten. We loved it. We played board games, and did puzzles. If it was the right season we'd help "mow the lawn" with the old fashioned push mowers and then play croquet as well as we could in the small back yard that was full of fruit trees and my grandfather's flowers.
Sometimes I would go with my grandmother on bike rides to visit her friends or her sister who also lived in the neighborhood. Other times I would just do my homework or read while I watched her make supper - or pies! (She made good use from all of those fruit trees!)
We had Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve at their house, with all of my cousins and aunts and uncles who also lived in the area. Sometimes we'd have sleepovers and get to stay up late watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and playing Yatzee and Uno... They even bought a ping-pong table for the basement.
My parents went to Hawaii for their 25th anniversary and my grandmother stayed with us so that they could go without us kids. (Which they wouldn't have been able to afford anyway.)
In 1999, my grandfather went to a veteran's home, and in 2000 my grandmother moved to a house she built on the lake where we spent our summers. I was too old for sleepovers and Uno by then but I was still devastated that they wouldn't be living nearby and someone else would be in their house. I mean, where would we have Christmas if not at grandma and grandpa's house?
Since then my grandfather has died, but my grandmother is now looking to move back to the St. Louis area to be closer to family again. We're thrilled.
Point is, I don't have any fonder childhood memories than those I have from that house.
On the other side of the argument, my paternal grandmother lived only 15 minutes away by car, but we didn't see that side of the family nearly as much. As I've gotten older, I've tried to make up for that, but I still don't have nearly as many memories. Lesson is, proximity doesn't always make for a suffocating presence.
I'm willing to bet that your kids will be grateful for the opportunity to be closer to their grandparents in the long run.
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James Franco's Comedy Central Roast won't die
The raucous ribbing lives on via web clips, lists and stories. But did things go too far?
There isn't enough time in the day to watch all the highlight clips from the "Comedy Central Roast of James Franco." Did we mention the roast, which aired Monday night, also birthed an endless array of stories and best of lists?
But, hey when laughter is on the menu, who can say no, especially after a long holiday weekend? Sadly, many of the clips -- which feature a lot of curse words and raunchy sex humor -- are too risqué to include in this post. You'll have to go to other sites for those. But Franco's potty mouth roasters -- who roasted him and each other -- paid off for Comedy Central. The special pulled in 3.1 million viewers.
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Roasters included Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, Bill Hader as the President of Hollywood, Jeffrey Ross with cornrows, and Andy Samberg. Speaking of Samberg, many declared him the best lampooner because he parodied roasts, much the way Norm MacDonald did five years ago during Comedy Central's Bob Saget roast.
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Samberg's bit was especially refreshing because most of the jabs taken at Franco were about his sexuality and the rumors about him being gay. Aziz Ansari also poked fun at all the anti-gay digs. "So many gay jokes tonight about Franco," Ansari said. "Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, d---- are going to just fly into your face?"
There was also a ton of material about Franco's shoddy job hosting the Academy Awards a few years ago, how annoying his Oscars co-host Anne Hathaway is, and the actor's stint on "General Hospital."
What did you think of the Franco roast? Funny stuff or too many homophobic jokes? Weigh in below or on MSN TV's Facebook and Twitter pages.
The "Comedy Central Roast of James Franco" will re-air Thursday, Sept. 5, at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT on Comedy Central.
My review of the Comedy Central Roast:
I feel slightly let down. Don't get me wrong. I love James Franco in that, "yeah, I've got nothing else to watch" way but this Roast seemed more like something you'd see coming from the confines of your best friends living room. Meaning, drinks were flowing and everyone was shootin' the breeze.
I agreed with other comments that they should be roasting people with LONG careers in Hollywood. You'd definitely have a ton more material than what everyone else was saying. There wasn't that much to bust his b--- on. The only refreshing part of this Roast was Andy Samberg. He was the only original one out of the bunch.
The worse part was when Jeff Ross told Franco's Grandmother she only had 127 hours left to live...really...you don't mess with people's family. That's why it's called the "James Franco" Roast.
comedy central club roasts need to be more like "the comedy central club roast of lisa lampenelli" or
vince mcmahon, or somebody of similar caliber. when i think of jess franco i think of the italian film director of the same name, not this man.
the only time these roasts are funny is when the republicans are in power! i will only go back to watching them when america gets it's redneck humor back. until then, ppl like me are disenfranchised, which i'll never accept!
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One of every two African-American men from Chicago's South Side will die before the age of 64. One of three black women will face that fate. In Chicago, 3,200 more blacks than whites die every year.
Those dire statistics hung in the air last Monday night at a town hall meeting in Roseland, on the city's far South Side. But the resilient people behind the numbers were determined to turn them around.
The meeting was inspired by the plight of Roseland Community Hospital, a neighborhood linchpin and last resort for the sick and poor. It's easy for some to ignore this far-flung place, to turn away from the community's sorry but familiar problems, like crime, joblessness and poverty.
That's what residents feared last April when the hospital was nearly shut down. Administrators said the facility was buried in $14 million in unpaid bills. There was much wrangling over whom to blame.
In June, Gov. Pat Quinn announced an infusion of $350,000 in state funds. A new administration was appointed in July.
Now, residents wanted to know — will Roseland survive? I served as co-moderator of the town hall, where neighborhood residents, activists and politicians turned out to proselytize.
As several hundred people piled into a local community center, they were handed red buttons that proclaimed: "Working to Build a New Roseland."
Elizabeth Harrison, a 40-year resident, stood to declare her community suffers from the "dry bones" of boarded-up houses, irresponsible parenting and other ills. But, she added, "Roseland will not die. Dry bones, you can live!"
Roseland has rich old bones. The village of "Roseland" was settled in 1849 by Dutch immigrants drawn to its "high prarie." Polish and Italian families came later, and the area was once a stop on the Underground Railroad, according to the Encyclopedia of Chicago.
White flight and economic turmoil took a toll in the 1960s and 1970s. In the mid-1980s, a young, ambitious community organizer named Barack Obama toiled there, then moved on. I lived there, on Normal Avenue, in the 1990s. Not enough has changed.
At the meeting, Tim Egan was asked the big question. Egan is Roseland's new president and chief restructuring officer. The former administrator at Norwegian American Hospital specializes in turnarounds.
For the first time, he publicly promised that Roseland would not be shut down. "I didn't come here to cut services," Egan told the crowd. "I came here to build services."
Let's get that on the record.
The hospital is considering expanding services in crucial areas like asthma, diabetes, obesity and mental health, Egan told me.
The hospital has good bones but has suffered from mismanagement. "We found $8 million of billings that had not even gone out the door," he said. "I discovered that, probably, on the second day I was there."
He is fixing those poor business practices, getting the place stabilized, and promises more reforms soon.
At the meeting, Harrison exhorted, "We need to do a whole lot of work to get Roseland on its feet again!"
She got a host of "Amens."
"Roseland, you can live again! You must live again!"
Those bones may be dry, but they've got the spirit.


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Comic-book publisher IDW ("30 Days of Night," "Star Trek") is getting into the television game.
The San Diego-based company has launched IDW Entertainment to fund and develop new TV properties based on IDW's catalog.
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Among the properties that it will develop for television: "Life Undead" (pictured), based on the comic book by Paul Zbyszewski (whose television production credits include "S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Hawaii Five-0" and "Lost"); "Brooklyn Animal Control," based on the March 2013 comic by J.T. Petty and Stephen Thompson, and "V Wars," which IDW is currently in discussions with for a soon-to-be-named network.
David Ozer, who's served at Sonar Entertainment, Starz Media/IDT Entertainment and DIC Entertainment, has been tapped as president of the division.
Circle of Confusion, which executive-produces the AMC zombie drama "The Walking Dead," will oversee packaging and creative development and executive-produce projects that emerge.
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In addition to the launch of the television division, IDW has a number of theatrical projects in development, including "Lore," a Warner Bros. project that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to star in, and "World War Robot," which is being developed by Disney.
"IDW Publishing's significant growth over the past several years, particularly in the theatrical arena with a number of properties currently in development at major studios, together with the ever increasing popularity of our creator-owned titles, have provided us with the ideal opportunity to expand into multi-platform entertainment," IDW Publishing's CEO & publisher Ted Adams said of the new endeavor.


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Should social media be taught in school?
More and more kids are being bullied on social media, few even losing their lives. Also a lot of them spoil their future job possibilities by posting something stupid online because they don't understand future employers must be watching.
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Feb 28 2013: I don't think that it's a responsibility of school by any means.
I think that each person should learn it and decide it by himself. If a man doesn't understand that we live in the era of wide spread social networks and that any person can observe any of his actions in social networks and that his actions can affect his life, then maybe he doesn't deserve to be hired?
There is something we can do though. Any social network can create a pop-up upon registration that warns user about possible consequences of his actions. This would be much more reasonable.
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Genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry
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LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW)-- A step forward for the proposal to sell the La Crosse County Administration Center to a company planning to convert it to student housing for Western Technical College.
The committee overseeing the project approved the proposal for purchase by Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions, but it's contingent upon approval of terms and conditions of the sale.
The 50-year-old administrative center is in dire need of repairs, including about $1.5 million in asbestos clean up. But instead the county is considering selling the building for $250,000 and relocating or building a new center for county offices.
"We want to work with the city, we want to work with WTC, we want to work with our neighbors, so if a project come sin that values those relationships, which this one appears to do, we are going to give that credit and take that in to consideration," said Joe Veenstra, a county board supervisor.
Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions wants to gut the administrative center and construct student housing for Western Technical College, though the real estate company plans to retain ownership of the building.
"It's an adaptive reuse project, so we're about sustainability and reusing this and it serves a need in our market place and servicing the student housing need," said Marvin Wanders, the owner of the company.
The committee in charge of the project weighed the pros and cons of the sale before passing the proposal.
"It looks like a really great proposal for WTC," Veenstra said. "It involves some tough decisions for the county, in the sense that it requires us moving our administrative center to a potential new location."
Constructing a new building would cost an estimated $23 million; about $1.7 million more than the estimated cost of renovating the existing structure. However, Veenstra says the county isn't utilizing the space.
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On the 'pro' side, selling the building and having it in private ownership means it goes on the tax rolls. Three Sixty estimates the tax value would be around $6.8 million, meaning $200,000 in property taxes. The county anticipates it would get about $25,000 of the taxes.
Three Sixty also says the project will create jobs.
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There are still a lot of steps necessary before the sale is final, but the ultimate goal for Three Sixty would be to open the new housing to students in July of 2016.
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