Comments on: Real Life:: Grandparents in town!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:55:48 +0000

I never met my grandfathers. But we were a traditional Irish family. Nana Burke lived in Ireland, so we didn’t see much of her. I was lucky enough to spend a week with her when I was 15 in the cottage my mom grew up in. She’d recently had a floor put in! Grandma Murphy lived around the block in Brooklyn, but we weren’t very close

We called my next door neighbor (and “other” mom to my own mother) Nana. She had the biggest impact on me and my family. Not only did she have an above ground pool, but her husband, Dada-Bill, loved to barbeque… AND I was able to sneak sips of soda pop! My mom leaned on her during the divorce (single mom raising five kids under the age of seven in 1972) and we +all+ leaned on her during my mom’s battle with cancer. Nana also worked in the library at my catholic school. My teachers would send me to the library instead of the principal’s office whenever i didn’t do my homework… so basically I spent A LOT of time in the library. Rose scented lotion always reminds me of her!

By: Dottie

Dottie — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:41:05 +0000

In reply to Melinda.

I like Grammy Juju!

Yeah–I would love to have a gaggle of girls just to get that nickname–except I would hate people to think that I was named after that damn chin enhanced puppet…

By: jungle dream pagoda

jungle dream pagoda — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:10:08 +0000

These pics are so sweet!!! I know what you mean about being lucky enough to be grandparents…I got a late start.
I called one grandparent Gramma Tressy…her 1st name was Teresa…and I guess that’s what made it out of my mouth. My folks are Grandma and Grandpa…and the hubs folks are Grammy and Grampy!

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:52:14 +0000

What a lovely post. We called them by their last names–i.e., Grandma Dippolito and Grandma Handley. Which, in retrospect, seems more formal than Madam!

My parents are Grammy and Pappy (and my grandmother is G.G.) and we haven’t come up with names for all of David’s parents yet (four of’em!). I’m lobbying for calling his stepdad “Rigby,” though. It’s his last name and I think it would be a swell grandpa name!

And I think Mimi is an adorable grandma name. My niece’s other grandma is Kiki! I also support Juju.

By: mjb

mjb — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:56:33 +0000

My parents are Grammy and PopPop. My husband’s grandmother is Swedish, so she’s Farmor. My great-grandpa was Pop.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:25:58 +0000

So sweet! Madam eff tee dubs, bee tee dubs. My grandmother Peg instructed us to call her just Grammy, not Grammy Peg, because we kept screwing up that middle vowel. We called our great-grandmas Nana, which might have been an Irish thing.

My MIL really wanted Zel to call her something, but Z’s only consonant was M. So we chose Mimi. And she’s still Mimi. I’m still selling Grammy Juju for my mother, Judy–who Z called Grandmother Bear when she went through a Little Bear phase.