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The Best of the Best 2020 Christmas and Chanukah Gifts for Everyone and Especially Grandchildren in This Far From the Best Year for Celebration
Thanksgiving 2020 took a toll. Not only could this Grandma not cook small enough for two, nothing tasted as good as when the entire...
Dec 3, 20206 min read
The Difference in American Life due to COVID-19 Between March and April 2020 and November 2020: Pandemic Loss of Memories and Sharing Life Passage Events Brings Tears
When the pandemic lockdown occurred March, 2020, I videotaped the three oldest grandchildren for them to save and look at their videos in...
Nov 5, 20205 min read
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
Oct 21, 20207 min read
Finding COVID-19 Testing For Adults By Mail is Easy But How Can Parents Find COVID-19 Testing by Mai
Travel is scary now enough for adults. I have several friends who have flown and send me pictures of themselves on the airplane. It was...
Sep 17, 20205 min read
The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpec
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
PART TWO of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote or Part Time Learning and Any Time
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Sep 2, 20208 min read
The Four Ways The Pandemic COVID-19 Even Affects Our Celebration of National Ice Cream Month
July is National Ice Cream Month. That makes sense. July is the highlight month of the summer, with July 4th and summer vacations and...
Jul 22, 20205 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
A Humorous and Profound View on What We Have Learned from Covid-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A friend who is an outstanding writer shared an article she wrote for her local community newsletter and gave me permission to share it...
Jul 1, 20203 min read
Grandparents May Be the Answer To The War Against Vaccines
Beginning around 2013, I read that the Russians first tried a social media campaign against vaccination in the United States as a test to...
May 27, 20206 min read
For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them
Pandemic Pounds. That is what I call the extra weight I am carrying around due to a sweet tooth and being home all the time to overdo. ...
May 20, 20202 min read
A Child of Holocaust Survivors View of Surviving the Coronavirus, Covid-19
For the very first time in over seven decades, I decided that I would participate in an on line video group of second generation...
May 13, 20205 min read
The Truth About Boomers Filling Each Day During the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Why It is Important to America’s Economy To Pay Attention to Us
It is May 2020, and we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. We Boomers have been self isolating or quarantining since...
May 6, 20207 min read
Passing Along Something Beautiful and Thought Provoking During the Coronavirus Pandemic
So many jokes and cartoons and videos come to me during this coronavirus period. They bring comic relief to this time of the coronavirus...
Apr 29, 20204 min read
From A Child of Holocaust Survivors Who Never Knew Grandparents: In 2020, We May Have to Picture Our
Until this date, March 24, 2020, the coronavirus outbreak, dangerous to us Boomers, has meant PopPop and I had to self quarantine, and we...
Mar 25, 20204 min read
Dear Grandchildren, The Year 2020 is Cancelled
This Grandma just got off the telephone with our oldest grandson, age 16, a junior in high school. It is March 16, 2020 at the end of...
Mar 18, 20206 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
Introducing Salad to Grandchildren Putting Fruits and Vegetables On A Pedestal First and Other Art Installation Projects
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the...
Feb 5, 20203 min read
The Terrible Twos From This The Terrible Twos From This Grandma’s perspective and SEVEN TIPS THAT WORK for the Sanity of Grandma and the Safety of Our Precious “TWOISH” Grandchildren
I nearly drowned the last visit with our youngest grandchild, nearly overwhelmed as our precious youngest grandson, 21 months old, began...
Jan 22, 20206 min read
When As A Grandparent, You Are Asked If You Love The First Grandchild the Best
When the first grandchild is born, it is a life passage event for the parents, but it is also a life passage event for the grandparents. ...
Jan 1, 20203 min read
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