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After A Year of Living With the Pandemic, We Vaccinated Grandparents Share the Joy of Hugging Grandc
We grandparents have made it. We have lived through a year of the pandemic, COVID-19. We have been in isolation, one of worst parts of...
Apr 1, 20213 min read


When Grandma Able To Hug Grandchildren Becomes Miraculous
COVID-19. This grandma is so over it. A year out of our ives now is life changing. For we know enough to know how much of living life we...
Jan 31, 20212 min read


Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst New Baby Gifts
After six grandchildren and many baby gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters rave and complain about baby gifts. Of course,...
Jan 16, 20215 min read


The Best and Worst About Our Grandchildren Safely Going To School This Coming School Year While the Pandemic, COVID-19, Is Still Among Us
This Grandma interviewed the three oldest grandchildren to preserve their memories about what life is like during the pandemic. The...
Jul 8, 20209 min read


Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s C
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called...
Feb 19, 20204 min read


If Allowances Are A Tool To Teach About Money, How Grandparents’ “Bank” Is Perfect
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...
Oct 23, 20193 min read


How Preteen and Teenage Grandchildren Are Like Cats
Grandparenting preteens and teenagers is different than any other grandparenting stage. Grandparenting babies, whether a long distance or...
Feb 14, 20194 min read


I am one of the Boomer Women Who Personally Experienced Discrimination “On The Basis of Sex”
I just saw the movie,“On the Basis of Sex,” and cannot share the “wow” moment in the movie for me without spoiling the movie for you. I...
Jan 17, 20194 min read


We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Possessions As We Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I hear in the news and media. Moreover, articles and advice columns about how our adult children do not...
Oct 17, 20184 min read


This Grandma Has Just Upped the Acceptable Marriage Age For Her Grandchildren
“Life is making choices and living with the consequences of the choices we make.” In Boomers’ parents’ age, that saying meant once you...
Aug 29, 20184 min read


Giving You Easy Ways to Use Certain Classical Music Which Listened to in the Background For Twenty M
We Grandmas want to make things easy for our families and loved ones. When I read that research suggests that the soundtrack to your...
Jul 13, 20185 min read


Fourth Trimester and Optimal Age for Human Baby and Puppy Cuteness Optimization Are the Same
With two new baby grandsons, the difficulty of the new parent experience is relived. This Grandma equates it to being a hamster on a...
Jun 20, 20184 min read


Teenagers are Like Two Year Old and We Must Remind the Parents of Our Grandchildren to Treat Them As Such
Oftentimes, in my twenty years as a family court judge, I found divorcing parents fighting over time with their teenagers. I was always...
Mar 25, 20183 min read


Happiness is Now Taught In College As the Younger Generation Seems to Need Be Taught What Happiness
The big news across media platforms that are viewed by us Boomers is Professor Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” course at...
Mar 10, 20183 min read


The Secrets of “Grandparents: The Grandbabies’ Great Reward” Revealed
Our dear grandparent friends whispered that they bought Florida Prepaid College Plans for each of their grandchildren upon each baby’s...
Jun 20, 20173 min read


Best of Boston With Grandchildren or As a Multigenerational Vacation in 2016 and 2017
In 2012, this Grandma wrote a post about the Best of Boston with grandchildren . That was when we took our oldest grandson to Boston for...
Aug 16, 201610 min read


Collage For Mother’s Day 2016 for Grandma To Make With Grandchildren
This Grandma loves to read the New York Times real estate section. I have done so for most of my adult life. One of my favorite...
May 5, 20162 min read


Think Puzzles For Under Twenty Dollar Holiday Presents For Grandchildren of All Ages And From Grandchildren For Us Boomer Grandmas
This Grandma always knew puzzles are good for our grand children’s brains, but not exactly why, so I went on line, and found the...
Dec 3, 20155 min read


Hot Dogs Do Deserve Their Own National Day of Celebration
Hot dogs happen to rank among this Grandma’s favorite food. As a freshman in college in Boston, a bunch of us got an urge for a Nathan’s...
Sep 4, 20153 min read


The Best of San Francisco With Grandchildren and Books to Enjoy About the City
There are many websites with tips on where to take children in San Francisco. All agree that San Francisco is a top travel destination...
Jul 12, 20159 min read
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