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Stcroix
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03-18-2005

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm going to have a new grandson this June and am having the hardest time trying to figure out what to have him call me!! Everything I think of reminds me of someone else and I feel like it's already 'taken'. Can you help me? What do your grandchildren call you--- or what do you call your grandmothers? Thank you in advance for your help!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 10:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandmothers were Bubba, Bubbellah, or Bubby depending on my mood. But it's not pronounced "Bubba" like the nickname for President Clinton. It's a sound like "book" sorta.


Melfie1222
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How about by your first name? What's wrong with Grandma?... I love my grandmas first names. Grandma Pearl, and Grandma Ada.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well I'm "grandma" and my mother is granny. I had a Mama Nell, a Nannie, and a couple of grandma's.

Melodie's other grandmother and greats are BeBe, Grener, and Grannie.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandmother (mom's mom) has been granny my whole life. She was a young grandmother and decided very early on that Grandmother and Grandma sounded old, so she settled on Granny. I always pictured some little old lady in a rocking chair whenever I said it, but thats what she wanted. 31 years later, not only us but most of our friends call her Granny.

My kidlets call their grandmas, Grandma, lol. Grandma Melody, Grandma Sharon, and Grandma Denise (she's my bils mother, the kids are close to her.)

My oldest niece (who is almost 6) has a speech impediment and can't string together the "gr" and "nd" sounds, so she has always called both her grandma's Mamaw. She's been doing speech therapy for the past six months or so and is getting better at the "gr" sound, but still prefers Mamaw.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, I'm just now realizing that I never had a grandmother, they both passed before my parents were married and had children. I find it semi-funny that I never realized this before now.

However, to stay on topic with this thread, when my dd was a little girl, she used to call Egbob's mother "Grandma Firstname" and my mom "Grandma". Then as my sons came into this world and learned to speak, they followed dd.

The cute thing was that my MIL wasn't so sure about being called "Grandma Firstname", but then all 9 of her grandchildren ended up calling her that as youngsters, but now they all call her plain old "Grandma".



Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, and congratulations on the new grandbaby! New babies are so much fun to be around.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmm well I have no kids or grandkids and neither does my brother.

Eggie, I lost both grandfathers before I was born, but had the pleasure of knowing both grandmothers. I think officially ours were "Grandma Blakemore" and "Grandma McPherson" when we talked about them and "Grandma" and "Gram" respectively when we talked to them. My older cousin was the one to dub her "Gram" and that stuck.

My parents each called their mothers "mother" but they got called Mom and Dad.

My brother's five neices/nephews call one grandmother (my SIL's mom) Oba Chan (she's Japanese).

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 4:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In my family our grandparenter were "grandma" and "grandpa".

My parents are now "grandma" and "grandpa", however the niece who lives far away calls them grandma/pa "lastname". My dad likes to tease my mom and call her "granny" and then the kids followed suit sometimes. We should call him "gramps".

You could also go with oma and opa (the German names) or nana and papap, papa, or pops. Or grammy, even.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 4:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mother was adamant that she not be called grandmother, granny, grandma ect. My dad wanted to be called Grandpop (which is what we called his dad). We kept telling my mom that Grandpop and Jean made her sound too much like a 2nd wife! LOL It's funny to look at my son's baby book in the early days as she tried about various names, the entries might read 'today, Grandpop and Lady came to visit' or Grandpop and Jean Jean came by'. Nothing ever sounded right. One of the first sounds that my son made were the 'M' sounds. Growing up, my brother and I would always call mom 'mommy, moomy, mommy' when we were teasing her. We still did it as adults. My son kind of picked up on that and started calling her 'Momus'. The name stuck and she loved it!!
My aunt's name is Mary Margaret and the kids all call her Mary Momma.
My neighbors are Nona and Papa.
My dad's wife's grandkids call her JuJu.

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 5:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mother is called "Nana" by her grandchildren.
MIL is "Ma Maw"

I had a "Momit" & "Popit" and a "Mom-Mom" and "Pop Pop"

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 5:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Congratulations, St. Croix!!

My parents go by "Grandy" and "Grumpy" with the grandkids. "MoMo" and "PoPo" were our great-grandparents. We have the German "Oma" and "Opa" in the family, also a pair of Polish grandparents who go by (forgive the spelling, I have no clue) Bocchi and Jaddusch.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 5:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandson named us himself when he was 2. He named us Nannie and Poppie.

Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 5:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My kids call my parents Mom-mom and Pop-pop - we also have Nana and Pa and Nana and Grandy :-)

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 6:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
growing up, i only had the grandmother on my mother's side. and of course being italian, she was Nonna. and she was in between husbands at the time, and the next husband was a grandpa.

when my daughter was born, my mom was 46, she didn't want to be a "grandma" and felt my grandmother was the "nonna" of the family so she became Nana. chuck's parents were "grandma" and "grandpa". but my stepdad, became "BIG grandpa", because although i found out he was only 6 feet tall, he is a very BIG person in how he carries himself and his stature. not a heavy person, but you feel like he's 6'6" just be the way he walks. and he is still Big Grandpa, 15 years later.


Reiki
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My grandmother's were both Nanny (Lastname). My mother is Grammy (Gram to the older ones). For her great-grandchildren she is Grammy-Great. Mom's grandmother was Janny.

My sister's grandchildren call her Yahya.

Bigd
Member

09-13-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 6:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my grandkids call me "Grandy" and my husband is "GrandyPaw"

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 7:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On the German front, our son calls his grandmother "Omi". My grandmother, whom I called "Oma", he extended to "Omama". Dad was "Opa".

On the Canuck front he has Nanny and Grampy.

Wapland
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grandma and Grandpa for all of us.


Fondly
Wappy

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 7:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Paternal grandparents are Gram and was Papa.

(Gram's mom was called Little Gram because she was shorter than Gram, lol.)

Maternal grandparents were Grandma and Grandpa Sunshine because they lived in California.
:-)

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm Nana and my hubby is Pop-pop... My mother is Gra-ma and my hubby's mom was Granny...

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great Grandmother on my dad's side we call Grammy Dora (her name is Dorothy, everyone calls her Dora).

Grandmother on my dad's side has always been Grammy. Now that a lot of us are older we find ourselves calling her Gram.

Grandfather on my dad's side we call Pop-pop.

Great grandmother on my mom's side we called Nan-nan, or Nan. I miss her!!!

My grandmother on my mom's side passed away when my mom was 16, so I never had a chance to meet her.

My grandfather on my mom's side was called Pap, or Pap-pap.

Now, my mom's father was in the military when she was growing up, and in the last years of high school she moved in with her best friend's family so she could finish high school with all her friends. They were like grandparents to my sisters and I so we refer to them as Grammy and Pop-pop Bradford (their last name).

My parents had a hard time deciding on what they wanted to be called when my sister had my nephew two years ago. My dad really wanted to be called Opa, but my mom just couldn't go along with Oma, so he dumped that idea. My mom thought everything made her sound old but finally decided on Gamma, and Tyler now calls her Bam-ma, lol. Looks funny when you type it! My dad decided on Poppy, which Tyler pronounces as Boppy (he's on a "b" kick, everything starts with a b to him!).

My cousin's call their grandmother Mom-mom which I hated as a child (grandmothers were Grammys!!!), but now I think it sounds very affectionate. You'll find something that sounds right to you!




Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, we were playing cards and my 2nd grade niece was being the scorekeeper. She couldn't fit the "grandpa and grandma" on the paper with the other names so we had her shorten it to G-ma and G-pa.

Guess what the kids called their grandparents all day...yup Geepa (with a hard G) and Geema. LOL!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My mother's folks were 'maam-maw' and 'pap-paw'; I'm sure you from deep in the 'hollers' will recognize that.

I love being called 'Granny'.

Neko
Member

08-03-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I call my mom's mother, Grandma, and I her mother Nanny.
I called my father's mother Nana.

I don't think I thought of those myself, I mean, I think it was them who got me to call them that...
Not very original eh