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Four 2021 Best Inexpensive Gadgets For Feeding Toddlers and Preschoolers That Are Perfect Baby Shower, First Birthday, and Visit Gifts That Parents Will Appreciate
We grandparents, (AV) after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, are planning multiple trips to visit grandchildren. We Florida grandparents...
May 13, 20213 min read


The 2021 Best Mother’s Day Gift For Grandmas Is Also The Most Important
Mother’s Day 2021 is Sunday, May 9. The 2021 Best Mother’s Day gift is also the most important. If you add up the days, minutes or hours...
Apr 25, 20214 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...
Jan 23, 20215 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


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


A 2020 Mother’s Day that Means Thinking Differently About A Gift and Five of the Best Gift Options F
Never before have we had to be apart “social distancing” from our loved ones under the circumstances of a world-wide pandemic. Many of...
Apr 22, 20204 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


How To Select the Best Award Winning Toys For All Ages For Holidays 2019
Even our toddler grandchildren crave electronics. Our youngest grandson, only nineteen months old, can manipulate the I Phone during...
Dec 11, 20194 min read


Grandma’s Best Four Tips to Get Gifts and Candy to Grandchildren at Sleep Away Camps That Do Not All
Gift packages have been banned at most sleep away camps. For crazy grandmothers, all that did was make us try to find ways to circumvent...
Jul 3, 20194 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


Award Winning Outdoor Toys For 2018 Spring and Summer Fun
Each year the Oppenheimer Toy Awards on Toy Portfolio give us guidance as to our toy purchases. Each year, it seems, it is harder to...
May 23, 20185 min read


Finally An Excellent Holiday Movie That Appeals To All Generations
Our grandchildren, ages 7, 10 and 11 went to see the movie, Wonder, during the Thanksgiving holiday. Our oldest grandson, age 14, had...
Dec 16, 20174 min read


Are Toys and Board Games Dead and Should We Grandparents Keep Them Alive This Holiday Season
Each year it seems that toys and games make up less and less of grandchildren’s birthday and holiday lists and electronics and apps make...
Nov 25, 20173 min read


Best Mother’s Day Gifts For Grandmothers and Great Grandmothers That Grandmas Want Plus Those They May Not Yet Know They Need
Each year it gets harder and harder to buy gifts for today’s grandmothers and great grandmothers. When it comes to Mother’s Day,...
May 5, 20175 min read


When Valentine’s Day Gifts Are Cheaper Than Valentine’s Day Greeting Cards, This Grandma Knows What
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of very special greeting cards for every occasion. There are musical cards, talking...
Jan 31, 20173 min read


Snapchat Taking Over Our Grandchildren’s World And Should We Be Worried About It Or Join By Buying Snap Spectacles for A Holiday Gift
Snapchat is a social media format that allows posts of pictures and photographs that can be enhanced by drawing on them and changing them...
Dec 29, 20164 min read


The Best Headphones to Protect Hearing As A Gift For Toddler to Preteen Grandchildren Rather than Be
Headphones are a great gift item for grandchildren at any time of the year. We grandparents know how it is sitting in a car with...
Dec 19, 20165 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


The 2015 Best Holiday Gifts For Grandma From Grandchildren
This Grandma does not want grandchildren to spend much money on a holiday gift. Previous posts recommend a photograph of the grandchild...
Dec 9, 20152 min read


Get Your Grandchild, Even Your Toddler and Preschool Grandchild, An iPad or iPad Mini For A Birthday Present or the Holidays With The Following Indispensable Accessories and Tips To Go With It
A dear, long (we never say old) friend called me to ask what she should get her granddaughter for her second birthday. The first words...
Nov 14, 20157 min read
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