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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


Boomers Protein Needs Are So Much More Than We Know For Optimum Muscle Mass and Longevity
Selection of pulses on porcelain spoons on checkered tablecloth with copy space This Grandma has found that we Boomers are beyond the...
Nov 15, 20183 min read


Silver Sneakers and Boomers’ Best Medicare Free Fitness Benefit or Not
If you have not heard of Silver Sneakers, join the club. You will want to join the Silver Sneakers club, as I did, when I heard about...
Sep 26, 20184 min read


July Is Ice Cream Month and What is New to Celebrate With Grandchildren Of All Ages
If you had to choose a month of the year to be Ice Cream Month, July would be it. National Ice Cream Day is celebrated on the third...
Jul 18, 20183 min read


How To Get The Yuck Out of the Ducks, Other Bath Toys and Items and The Bathtub Itself
When this Grandma tries to get to the source of a series of articles, I find some really obscure on line journals. The one for the...
Apr 24, 20183 min read


Six Ways To Celebrate 2018 Earth Day and Earth Month With Grandchildren
On April 22 each year since 1970, we celebrate Earth Day, a day to appreciate and be aware of our environment and the Earth. Earth Day...
Apr 20, 20183 min read


Poop Should Not Be A Toy and We Grandparents Should Say Phooey to Poop Toys
The article, “Toy Fair is Flush with Poo-inspired Games and Trinkets,” in the Washington Post February 24, 2018, by Mark Lennihan, has...
Mar 20, 20183 min read


Put The Lion King on Your Radar Screen: The Large Screen, the Small Screen and On the Stage
“The Lion King” live stage musical is the most successful production of any work in any media in entertainment, and it deserves to be. ...
Mar 2, 20183 min read


Pizza For Breakfast Is Finally Getting the Respect It Deserves and This Grandma’s Case For a Breakfast Feast Grandchildren Would Want For Breakfast, Part II
If you follow this blog, you will already know that this Grandma is obsessed with the concept of “Pizza for Breakfast” as a special...
Feb 16, 20183 min read


Best Five Tips for Experiencing Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland
In this past first year of retirement, Grandpa and I traveled several continents and finished those Wonders of the World Lists that are...
Jan 18, 20189 min read


The One Best Website for Finding the Best Children’s Books For Our Grandchildren of All Ages
From a new baby registry to holiday presents to visit presents to school required reading at all ages, books connect us with our...
Dec 30, 20174 min read


Six Tips To Remember for The Best Bargains For “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” 2018 and For Shopping
This Grandma has the life experience of remembering when “brick and mortar” stores controlled and is living through the change to...
Dec 13, 20175 min read
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