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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


How to Celebrate the Month of November’s National Sandwich Day With Grandchildren
November 3 each year is National Sandwich Day. There seems to be a day for everything celebrated in our country, and we can use each...
Nov 16, 20174 min read


Top Four Tips For Grandparents To Conquer Sibling Rivalry
A dear grandma friend complained that her two grandsons, ages nine and seven, constantly fight. Their parents separate them by sending...
Nov 3, 20174 min read


Making the Most of Halloween 2017 and Best Tips of Halloweens Past
As I receive the pictures of our grandchildren’s 2017 Halloween costumes, I smile. I remember each year. I am waiting for Godiva’s 2017...
Oct 25, 20172 min read


Archives Must Reads For New Grandmas. Part II What To Buy, From Equipment to Toys and Gifts
As this Grandma said in Part I, a dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for...
Oct 10, 20172 min read


Archives Must Reads For New Grandmas: Part I Grandma Lessons and Tips
A dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for new grandmas from my archives. I...
Oct 6, 20172 min read


This Grandma’s Case For a Breakfast Feast Grandchildren Would Want For Breakfast, Part I
In order to understand this Grandma’s recommendation that grandchildren should be fed a breakfast feast grandchildren would want for...
Sep 22, 20175 min read


More Germs Than We Want to Know About Surround Us
If you subscribe to this blog, and you can on the home page where it says to “subscribe” to receive two posts per week by email, you...
Aug 18, 20174 min read


Why Our Grandchildren Should Learn Mandarin Chinese Sooner Rather Than Later
Our cousins in San Francisco have always had a nanny who speaks Mandarin Chinese. Once their eldest was ready for preschool, they...
Aug 15, 20175 min read


What is a Whiplash Grandma and Five Top Tips On How To Give All Your Cluster Grandchildren Individua
Our dear cousin is a whiplash grandma. She laughed when I named her that. She has had five grandchildren born in five years. When her...
Aug 5, 20173 min read
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