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The 2019 Most Popular Baby Names Have Few Surprises But the Biggest Surprise is How The Impact Of Cu
This Grandma loves seeing the Social Security Administration’s listing of the most popular baby names of the year. If you put the term...
Oct 15, 20203 min read


Halloween Celebration and Decorating in the Age of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Everything seems different and chaotic in this COVID-19 coronavirus time in our lives. Each year this Grandma buys Halloween costumes...
Oct 7, 20204 min read


Taking A Virtual Zoom Baby Shower to the Next Level With the Best Four Tips
Yesterday, I participated in a Zoom baby shower given by one of my long (we never say old) dear friends for her son and daughter-in-law. ...
Sep 23, 20204 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


PART ONE of Learning Tips to Pass Along and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote On Lin
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...
Aug 26, 20207 min read


Seven Great On Line Shopping Tips During COVID-19 or Anytime to Get the Best at the Best Price
In this time of COVID-19, spending more time in our homes, we are not only cleaning closets and reorganizing, we are looking to change or...
Aug 12, 20209 min read


Marvelous, Outrageous, Extraordinary, and Maybe Some Useful Face Masks In the Mix to Make or Choose From for the Present and Future
Although we are loathe to consider it, it seems that face masks are going to be a means of remaining safe from the coronavirus, COVID-19,...
Aug 5, 20205 min read


Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jun 10, 20205 min read


Best 2020 Baby, Toddler, and Young Grandchild Gifts for Quarantined Parents and Parents-to-be
Researching for this blog post, this Grandma came across the most interesting brand new potty. Yes, with two grandsons now over age two,...
Apr 15, 20205 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


New York Magazine’s Top Rated Family Board Games on Amazon Make Winners For This Holiday Season and
When the holidays are coming, this Grandma is looking for alternatives to electronics for the grandchildren that they will be interested...
Dec 18, 20194 min read


Missing Thanksgiving Magic – Cookie Bars — and Significant Family Presence
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our...
Dec 4, 20194 min read


Grandma’s Top Five Cleanliness in Public Tips For Grandchildren
When our eldest was being toilet trained, she fixated on only using the home toilet. We had to return home for her to go or, the good...
Oct 30, 20196 min read


Five Best Tips To Maximize and Personalize Your Group Tour or Travel to Anywhere in the World
PopPop and I consider ourselves world travelers. After all, we have conquered all the wonders of the world on every world list, except...
Oct 16, 20197 min read


Grandparents Also need a Handy List of Questions to Ask Grandchildren That Will Get Them To Share About Their Day
We grandparents have Face Time. We grandparents have texting. We grandparents have old fashioned telephone contact. When we ask our...
Oct 9, 20193 min read


Where We Grandparents Can Intervene Getting Grandchildren to Eat
Every parent worries when their child refuses to eat. We grandparents have learned that toddlers have a 36 hour food window and you have...
Jul 10, 20192 min read


Best Products and Tips New And Wonderful From the Mother of Her Third Child, Our Youngest Grandchild
This Grandma forgot the overwhelming joy a baby can bring to a family. After all, our youngest baby boy grandchild has brothers seven and...
May 22, 20193 min read


Curated List of 309 Best Mother’s Day Gifts To Choose From or Craft For Every Kind of Mother and Grandmother At Every Price Point for Mother’s Day 2019
This Grandma is hooked on the apps that give you options to select a topic and read dozens and dozens of articles from any source, and...
Apr 3, 20195 min read


Best Four Tips We Boomer Women Should Share About Menopause and Beyond
This Grandma has written about how we should have friends that are at least ten years older than us so we can learn what faces us in life...
Mar 7, 20196 min read
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