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Telling Grandchildren About the Beginning of Television Now That We Are Nearing Its End As We Know It
This past February 2017, NBC television celebrated 90 years of programming. That is GG’s (great grandparent’s) generation, but we...
Mar 15, 20176 min read
Chad and Jake’s Personalized Bibs, Burp Cloths, and Blankets Return With An Even Greater Selection of Items
Chad and Jake is a Florida company run by a family who makes the best quality and most useful and long lasting personalized bibs, burp...
Feb 24, 20172 min read
Disney’s Magic Kingdom Best Tips for 2017 and Beyond
We are Florida parents and now we are the grandparents in Florida, so we have lost count of how many visits to Disney’s Magic Kingdom we...
Feb 21, 20176 min read
Home Remedies That Make Our Lives Easier — Part II –And How We Must Preserve Our Own Fam
In Part I of home remedies that make our grandchildren’s lives easier, I concentrated on Terry and Joe Graedon and their home remedies....
Dec 2, 20166 min read
Home Remedies That Make Our Grandchildren’s Lives Easier – Part I The Experts As a Holiday Gift
This Grandma had never heard of Terry and Joe Graedon until I saw their column in the Sun Sentinel newspaper October 27, 2016. Here was...
Nov 29, 20164 min read
National Toy Hall of Fame Winners and Runners Up Add to the Best Holiday Presents 2016 for All Ages
There is an actual National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York. Each year, since1998, “toys that have inspired creative play and...
Nov 22, 20166 min read
The History of Pizza and 101 Best Pizzas in the United States at Our Fingertips
The Sunday travel news in our local South Florida newspaper, the Sun Sentinel, had an article about how to find two of the best pizzas in...
Nov 2, 20163 min read
Picking A Perfect Pumpkin and What to Do and Eat Afterwards
This Grandma did not realize there was an art to selecting the best pumpkin. If you are with me, then the internet is a treasure trove...
Oct 11, 20162 min read
Nutella and Bananas or Apples Combine to Make A Tasty and Healthy After School Snack or Maybe Even a
The first time this Grandma heard of Nutella, a chocolate hazelnut spread similar in texture to a peanut butter spread, was in 1988. Our...
Sep 15, 20163 min read
Table Tennis at the Rio Olympics Gets Our Grandchildren and Us Moving and Away From Electronics for Holiday Gifts 2016
This Grandma is not athletic, but when Grandpa and I bought our children an outdoor ping pong table for our screened porch when they...
Aug 13, 20163 min read
Making Ice Cream and Icy Treats With Grandchildren Has Never Been Easier and May Lead to A Learning Lesson in Shopping Too
This Grandma’s cooking expertise is making reservations. For desserts, when the grandchildren come, there are always M & M cookie ice...
Aug 2, 20163 min read
No More Scraping The Bowl When and If Baking With Grandchildren and Throw Away Your Flour
Grandchildren love scraping the bowl of cookie dough or the like. They love it more than cleaning the bowl at the sink, although they...
Jul 19, 20163 min read
Summer 2016 Bubble Fun For All Ages
This Grandma loves watching babies watch bubbles. This Grandma loves watching toddlers try to catch bubbles. This Grandma loves when...
Jun 21, 20163 min read
Prepping For Baby Number Two As The Hollywood Stars Do
It seems that many Hollywood stars are in the baby way for the second time. In the Sun Sentinel, April 27, 2016, it was reported that...
May 13, 20164 min read
Fast Forward From C-Sections Unnecessary and Dangerous to Not Enough Shows Pendulum Swings Too Far are Dangerous and Unnecessary Or Is It In the Reporting of the Studies
When our oldest grandson was born in 2003, our older daughter had an emergency c-section as the umbilical cord was wrapped around his...
Feb 4, 20165 min read
Our Faces and Voices Are Still the Best “Traditional” Toys for Our Grandchildren, the App Generation or Generation Z, as They Are Called
When my first born was a toddler, this Grandma took gourmet cooking lessons. I can still remember repeating and play acting making duck...
Jan 20, 20163 min read
Documenting Baby’s Growth Month By Month During the First Year With Onesies, Belly Stickers and Huge Stuffed Animals Makes For Wonderful Baby Gifts From Grandma For Holidays or As a Wonderful Baby Sho
A dear long (we never say old) grandma friend sends me a picture of her youngest granddaughter each month. The adorable baby girl is...
Nov 29, 20152 min read
Award Winning Toys and Games Sure to Be Winners With Our Grandchildren and a Winner for the Grandchildren to Get for Grandma This Holiday Season 2015
We grandmas want the toys we buy to be winners, toys our grandchildren will play with again and again. The best place to look is the...
Nov 25, 20159 min read
Pew Study on the New Twenty First Century Family Shows Who Does the Heavy Lifting in the Family Has Not Changed Much and They Need Our Help More Than Ever
Two articles a week apart in the New York Times about a Pew Study on the new twenty first century family give us two views by the same...
Nov 23, 20155 min read
Hess Holiday Toy Truck Tradition Remains Alive For 2015 and We Grandmas Can Turn it into A Family Tradition
Our grandsons love getting their Hess holiday toy trucks every year from their other grandparents. Remember, children remember traditions...
Nov 3, 20154 min read
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