A grandmother's blog on life
Being Boomers, we grandparents have many generations to worry about with the flu and viruses. PopPop’s mother is 96 years old. Our siblings are hitting age 70. Our children are in their 40’s. Our grandchildren range from sixteen to two years old. We refuse to admit that when the news media … [Continue reading]
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called “Classic Blue” is especially interesting. Our youngest grandson, almost two, is learning many words for things, including colors. It seems that everything is … [Continue reading]
This Grandma realized several years ago that greeting cards and stamps for mailing are getting so expensive that it is not much more to send … [Continue reading]
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the Whitney Museum … [Continue reading]
This Grandma is always surprised at some national day selections and was surprised that there was a National Nutella Day. I was wrong. The … [Continue reading]
I nearly drowned the last visit with our youngest grandchild, nearly overwhelmed as our precious youngest grandson, 21 months old, began to exhibit … [Continue reading]
Our grandchildren love raw cookie dough. It was so difficult when we first had the raw egg scare and then the uncooked flour scare. See previous … [Continue reading]
It is not without irony that 2020 is ushered in with the death of the last living Holocaust survivor from our family. My Mother, GG (Great … [Continue reading]
When the first grandchild is born, it is a life passage event for the parents, but it is also a life passage event for the grandparents. The entire … [Continue reading]
Sesame Street is 50 years old! For us Boomer grandparents, that means that our children were the first to experience Sesame Street. The concept was … [Continue reading]
When the holidays are coming, this Grandma is looking for alternatives to electronics for the grandchildren that they will be interested in enough to … [Continue reading]
Even our toddler grandchildren crave electronics. Our youngest grandson, only nineteen months old, can manipulate the I Phone during Face Time and … [Continue reading]
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our grandson, their … [Continue reading]
There are certain websites that I have signed up with, usually because they relate to something dealing with grandchildren. Hatley is one of them. … [Continue reading]
On our last visit to our youngest grandchild, a toddler, his eight year old brother was humming a tune we grandparents were not familiar with. We … [Continue reading]
Grandpa and I just returned from Sicily and Malta, where farm to table is the norm. The food was natural and fresh with no preservatives, not like … [Continue reading]
This Grandma makes reservations. As a working mother, I rarely cooked and never baked. My Mother, GG Frieda, was an outstanding cook and even more … [Continue reading]
When our eldest was being toilet trained, she fixated on only using the home toilet. We had to return home for her to go or, the good news and bad … [Continue reading]
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children, reported in … [Continue reading]
PopPop and I consider ourselves world travelers. After all, we have conquered all the wonders of the world on every world list, except two in … [Continue reading]
As a completely obsessive and proud grandmother, I relish every warm, funny and outrageous moment I have with my family. Read more...