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    For All Grandmas And Grandpas ...

    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


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    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.
    joyce who has princess peanut, spokesdog for the catpack, mojo, magic, kira and squirty, members of the catpack, angel duke, a good dog who is missed and angel alex the wonder dog, handsome prince.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pam
    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 !!
    Wom


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    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!

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    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 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!!

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

    That's me

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    **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.
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