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 mentions “at risk” ages […]
Archives for February 2020
The Wuhan Coronavirus has Arrived in the United States: LINKS FOR UPDATES With What We Grandparents and Our Grandchildren Can Expect or Do About It and What Does Climate Change Have To Do With Super Viruses
February 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s Color of the Year 2020
February 19, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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 the color “blue” to him. He holds up a yellow […]
Valentine’s Day 2020With GG’s (Great Grandmother) Cookie Recipe or David’s Cookies
February 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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 something more than a card for holidays, including Valentine’s Day. I wrote a previous post about this in 2017 with ideas other than greeting cards. “When Valentine’s Day Gifts Are […]
Introducing Salad to Grandchildren Putting Fruits and Vegetables On A Pedestal First and Other Art Installation Projects
February 5, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the Whitney Museum in New York to creatively come up with this idea. Darren Bader’s work stands alone in the gallery. “Fresh fruits and vegetables—“nature’s impeccable sculpture,” according to Bader—are presented as formal objects […]
