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Adult Guilty Pleasure With Velvetta Queso Dip and What To Do With the Leftover Velvetta After Making the Best Mac And Cheese For Grandchildren
Our grandchildren love California Pizza Kitchen’s mac and cheese. This Grandma went on a hunt to try to replicate it and found a recipe...
Mar 5, 20162 min read
Etch A Sketch and Doodle Art is Part of Our Past But Is It Also Part of Our Grandchildren’s Future
Etch a Sketch was created by a French inventor in 1955, according to a business “Briefing” in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, February...
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Every Day is A Good Day For a Sugarwish Especially When We Need Something to Send to a Grandchild IMMEDIATELY
This Grandma is always looking for something new and something special for grandchildren. But sometimes we need something at the last...
Feb 26, 20162 min read
When Grandchildren Can Communicate Grandma Life Becomes Even Better
This week, Grandpa spoke to a friend, a new grandpa, who was very excited to have a new baby granddaughter. Grandpa said, “just wait. You...
Feb 20, 20163 min read
A Life Well Lived and What We Can Learn When We Boomer Grandmas Start Reading Obituaries
This Grandma cannot remember when I started reading obituaries, but it seems that the obituary page is one that now catches my eye. Oh...
Feb 16, 20163 min read
If Grandma’s Brother Did Not Know Of These Tax Breaks for Newly Retired, Then They Must Be Very Special, Or Just Move to Florida
My brother has been a business whiz since before he was a teenager. He is the long time business advisor for family and friends alike....
Feb 8, 20162 min read
Fast Forward From C-Sections Unnecessary and Dangerous to Not Enough Shows Pendulum Swings Too Far are Dangerous and Unnecessary Or Is It In the Reporting of the Studies
When our oldest grandson was born in 2003, our older daughter had an emergency c-section as the umbilical cord was wrapped around his...
Feb 4, 20165 min read
Taking a Selfie Is An Art To Boomer Grandma and Grandpa and Take Heed Before Your Grandchild Needs One of You
Our grandchildren take selfies every time we are with them. We find the grandchildren have used them to create wallpaper on our various...
Jan 29, 20163 min read
Marbles and Marble Runs Keep Our Grandchildren Entertained As We Were When We Were Children But Now
The New York Times had a Backstory on marbles of all things. We played marbles as children, but today, marble players can compete for...
Jan 25, 20164 min read
As A Grandma Do We End Up Moving Closer to the Parents of Our Grandchildren and Our Grandchildren Or
Just today, a GG (great grandmother) I know decided to move to Montana where the parents of her grandchildren and older grandchildren...
Jan 14, 20166 min read
Be A Hero to the Parents of Your Grandchildren and Grandchildren By Grandma Being in the Know about Songkick and How To Get Great Concert and Artist Tickets
This Grandma always wonders how tickets to concerts sell out in minutes after they are released on line. We mortals have to go through...
Jan 4, 20163 min read
Grandchildren May Learn A Lot By Their Introduction to Frank Sinatra On His Centennial And We May Have A Great Holiday Gift for The Great Grandparents
Frank Sinatra would be 100 years old December 12, 2015. He is not really of our era, but of the GG (great grandparent) era as a singer. I...
Dec 27, 20154 min read
Great Grandmother’s Remedy of Epsom Salt Baths In Vogue Today For Everything From Colds to Sleep Aid To Sore Muscles To Calming Children and Here is How to Do It
Our GG (great grandmother, my mother) used to add Epsom salts to this grandma’s bath when she was a child as a cure all. She told us it...
Dec 7, 20154 min read
This Grandma Wishes the Technology to Track Children on A Cell Phone was Available When Her Children
On the Today Show, November 20, 2015, the discussion was whether parents should track their children on a cell phone. Savannah Guthrie...
Dec 5, 20153 min read
The Stroll from Boomer Grandma’s Era and the Electric Slide and Macarena from the Era of Their Parents Has Become the Whip for Our Grandchildren
Doing Face Time with grandchildren is the next best thing to being with them in person. It allows us to share their lives, see them when...
Nov 18, 20156 min read
Lego Company Already the Most Powerful Brand and May be the world’s Biggest Toy Company With Help From Boomer Grandmas
Lego Company is all over the news. This Grandma watches for all stories about legos, as this is a favorite of grandchildren. So is...
Sep 25, 20152 min read
“Be Careful What You Wish For” Hits this Boomer Grandma
Standing in a crowded, busy Pottery Barn waiting for the sales person to get items from the warehouse, the grandchildren were bored. One...
Aug 30, 20153 min read
Finding the Best Art for Decorating a Child’s or Any Room and A New Shared Activity for Grandma and Grandchild by Exploring National Geographic Art
It is a real effort to find fabulous wall decor for a baby’s room or child’s room. Yes, we can find great baby art for a nursery, but...
Aug 26, 20153 min read
Does Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Forever Define the Boomer Generation
There is a development called “The Villages,” an hour north of Orlando, Florida. This Grandma personally knows people who have retired to...
Jun 22, 20154 min read
Baby Names for 2014 Lead to Decades of Information and Advice From Grandma on Loving the Name Chose
This Grandma loves when the U.S. Social Security Administration annually announces the most popular baby names of the year. 2014 is no...
Jun 9, 20153 min read
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