Each year the Oppenheimer Toy Awards on Toy Portfolio give us guidance as to our toy purchases.  Each year, it seems, it is harder to...

Our grandchildren, ages 7, 10 and 11 went to see the movie, Wonder, during the Thanksgiving holiday.  Our oldest grandson, age 14, had...

Each year it seems that toys and games make up less and less of grandchildren’s birthday and holiday lists and electronics and apps make...

Each year it gets harder and harder to buy gifts for today’s grandmothers and great grandmothers.  When it comes to Mother’s Day,...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of very special greeting cards for every occasion.  There are musical cards, talking...

Snapchat is a social media format that allows posts of pictures and photographs that can be enhanced by drawing on them and changing them...

Headphones are a great gift item for grandchildren at any time of the year.  We grandparents know how it is sitting in a car with...

This Grandma had never heard of Terry and Joe Graedon until I saw their column in the Sun Sentinel newspaper October 27, 2016.  Here was...

This Grandma does not want grandchildren to spend much money on a holiday gift. Previous posts recommend a photograph of the grandchild...

A dear, long (we never say old) friend called me to ask what she should get her granddaughter for her second birthday. The first words...

This Grandma’s mantra for gifts for Father’s Day is the same as Mother’s Day and such holidays. Gifts from children to parents and...

Sleep-away camps have cracked down on care packages from home during the summer. The camps do not want the campers competitive about the...

Brigitt Hauck, a writer for Real Simple Magazine, writes many lists for Mother’s Day ideas, including, “8 Custom Gifts That Show Off...

If money were no object and a grandma did not care what anything cost, here are over the top luxurious holiday gifts grandchildren would...

This Grandma was thinking about Father’s Day presents.  The first and best idea is always a picture in a frame.  The photograph can be...

The weather does not make us think spring is around the corner, but it is.  Planting with grandchildren is fun, but so are the many award...

This Grandma reviewed the 2013 Valentines’ Day Gift suggestions and, while some things may remain the same, some suggestions have surely...

The funniest story in our family about the tooth fairy is when our daughter did not have a bill less than $20 the night our grandchild...

Each year, as every year, this Grandma has tried to think of projects she can do with the grandchildren on a visit which will also create...

I was listening to the radio in the car and heard the DJ mention that his wife was pregnant and wanted tickets to a specific concert as a...