http://craftivism.com/blog.html/2009/09/finding-ground/ yay. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:40:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://craftivism.com/blog.html/2009/09/finding-ground/comment-page-1/#comment-3103 Mr X Stitch Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:18:27 +0000 http://craftivism.com/blog.html/?p=1208#comment-3103 Thanks! :) Thanks! :)

]]> http://craftivism.com/blog.html/2009/09/finding-ground/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 Lila Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:14 +0000 http://craftivism.com/blog.html/?p=1208#comment-3091 Coming from a long line of Washingtonians, I totally get this. Even though we moved to the exurbs when I was little, DC is still my city. Every time I visit my family, when we go through a certain part of Capitol Hill, my mom tells me about my great-great-great (I think it's 3 greats...) grandmother who had a farm (!) there. When we pass Georgetown Hospital, she tells me how I and my two siblings were born there, and how my grandfather and his father and mother (a nurse...I come from a family that has always valued education for both sexes. When we pass her high school (Georgetown Visitation), she talks about the time she broke her best friend's ankle in field hockey, and when we pass her grandma's house, she talks about visiting her grandparents and the maiden aunts who lived with them. My grandmother recently passed away, and my mom and her siblings just sold her house. I spent half my childhood in that house (my mom was working), and it broke my heart to see it go. So I guess it's not big surprise that, although I went to school in Ohio, I met a fellow Washingtonian and we have been dating for 6 years. I found out after we started dating that we had gone to the same pediatrician's office as kids. Yeah. DC's a small town in many ways, and it's awfully easy to snuggle into it's history and your family's. Coming from a long line of Washingtonians, I totally get this. Even though we moved to the exurbs when I was little, DC is still my city. Every time I visit my family, when we go through a certain part of Capitol Hill, my mom tells me about my great-great-great (I think it’s 3 greats…) grandmother who had a farm (!) there. When we pass Georgetown Hospital, she tells me how I and my two siblings were born there, and how my grandfather and his father and mother (a nurse…I come from a family that has always valued education for both sexes. When we pass her high school (Georgetown Visitation), she talks about the time she broke her best friend’s ankle in field hockey, and when we pass her grandma’s house, she talks about visiting her grandparents and the maiden aunts who lived with them. My grandmother recently passed away, and my mom and her siblings just sold her house. I spent half my childhood in that house (my mom was working), and it broke my heart to see it go. So I guess it’s not big surprise that, although I went to school in Ohio, I met a fellow Washingtonian and we have been dating for 6 years. I found out after we started dating that we had gone to the same pediatrician’s office as kids. Yeah. DC’s a small town in many ways, and it’s awfully easy to snuggle into it’s history and your family’s.

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