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wombat2u2004
08-04-2007, 12:18 AM
FOR ALL GRANDMAS AND GRANDPAS ...
... through the eyes of them youngens!


Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,
and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a baby sitter who watches the kids instead of the
television. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The
next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Grandfathers
have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day
and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts
forever. ~Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or
three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the world
calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
~Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your
grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~Gene Perret

The best baby sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida. ~Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle sta rdust over the lives of
little children. ~Alex Haley

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of
practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on
the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new
grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you
become one. ~Author Unknown

If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on
schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.
~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and
easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren. ~Author Unknown


What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that
grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
~Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's
married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie

joycenalex
08-04-2007, 10:51 AM
i was grandmas' girl, and my sister was poppas' girl. they made us feel so special. just the thought of them can make me smile and get misty, even today. thanks grandma and poppa.

Pam
08-04-2007, 11:13 AM
So, so true Wom! Life begins when you become a grandparent. So many of these are winners but I like this one best:

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day
and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

I like that because it is true. Seeing my grandchildren does make my day complete. :)

wombat2u2004
08-04-2007, 11:26 AM
So, so true Wom! Life begins when you become a grandparent. So many of these are winners but I like this one best:

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day
and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

I like that because it is true. Seeing my grandchildren does make my day complete. :)

I wish I was a grandfather already.......no matter how much I try and convince my daughters to breed, the more they dig their heels in !! :p
Wom

Karen
08-04-2007, 11:37 AM
This reminds me of an event 17 years ago, when my eldest niece was 4 years old. I had gotten circus tickets, and couldn't go, so gave them to my mom, so she could take Jess. Afterwards, I got two phone calls.

Call #1: Ma: Well, we went early so we could help feed the elephants, but they don't let people do that any more - we couldn't even pet them. Jess was very disappointed, so we went and got ice cream to pass the time. Then the circus was bright and colorful, and we had a good time, she was very tired when we got home.

Call #2: Jess: Auntie! We went to the circus and we were gonna feed the elephants but the man said no, people can't do that any more and so then me and Gramma were really disappointed so we went and got ice cream and then it was time for the circus and we went in and there were clowns and Gramma got us cotton candy and then there was ponies and we got popcorn, and it was really really fun and we had candy peanuts, too.

My big brother (Jess' dad): Okay, I've got the phone now. Whew! Did you get all that? Somebody "wasn't hungry" for her dinner ... but she's still wired! I'm waiting for her to crash any minute now.

Me: Ice cream and cotton candy and popcorn and peanut brittle? Does this sound like the same woman who raised us?

Big brother: Ah, but she's a Grandma now - everything's different!

sirrahbed
08-04-2007, 02:42 PM
Some of these quotes are sooo true!! Pam - the one about grandparents making you feel like they have been waiting....love that one. I always assumed that my grandmas had been on the porch or at the window just waiting for us to arrive :D Well they WERE, right??? ;) I only saw mine every few years or so, but the visits were always something that I looked forward to.

I also had to laugh when I read that grandkids make you feel young...but after an hour of playing - then I am reminded that I am NOT so young!!

There is nothing I have experienced that compares with being a grandparent!! :D


My favorite:
Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls. ~Author Unknown

That's me :D

Freedom
08-05-2007, 06:58 PM
**sigh** Something I've missed out on, at both ends.

My mum's parents lived in England so we had no contact with them.

Dad's parents lived less than a mile away; but they never learned to speak English, so we didn't really have a relationship with them.

I've never had children; somehow, I think that is a requirement to havin grandchildren.