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Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Gifts 2025: Several Inexpensive New Travel Gifts and Kitchen Gadgets Those in Your Family Did Not Know Each Generation Wanted or Needed and One Splurge Item
There are so many idea articles for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, so this Grandma tried to think of a few new ideas for 2025. Of...
May 85 min read


Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID
Going on our third year into pandemic life, we’re all still adjusting mentally and physically to this abnormal state. Many of us feel the...
Jun 30, 20243 min read


The Three Craft Toys That Grandparents Should Beware of Allowing Grandchildren To Play With At Their Homes
This Grandma has given many cooking and baking tips for grandparents doing so with grandchildren, including cleaning tips, covering...
Feb 5, 20226 min read


Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...
Aug 21, 20216 min read


What Family Vacations, Grandchildren, and Grandparent Electronics Lessons Have in Common
Not especially tech savvy, I wait for family vacations to pester our older grandchildren and ask their help to make my use of electronics...
Aug 15, 20213 min read


Good News For Us Postmenopausal Chocoholics: An Extra Large Milk Chocolate Bar Twice A Day Is Found
This Grandma is an unapologetic chocoholic. As I previously shared, I fed my first baby warmed chocolate fudge at three months old, one...
Jul 17, 20214 min read


Worms in Strawberries and Levels of Filth, Mold, and Insects Allowed in Our Food By The FDA Oh My!
Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, our refrigerator and pantry overflowed with food. So much food that there was spoilage. That...
Jul 3, 20215 min read


Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder...
Apr 29, 20214 min read


A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 19, 202010 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


Grandma’s Changing Role and Relationship With Grandchildren As They and We Live Longer
This Grandma always says we never get older, we live longer. That is different with our grandchildren. They cannot seem to want to wait...
May 14, 20155 min read


Springtime Gifts from Grandma
The weather does not make us think spring is around the corner, but it is. Planting with grandchildren is fun, but so are the many award...
Apr 3, 20146 min read


Grandma loves Dr Seuss Books, Games, Puppets, Movies and More
March 2 was Dr. Seuss’ birthday which has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading...
Mar 11, 20136 min read


Songs, Sonograms, Shopping, and Creating a History
I remember exactly where I was when I learned the sex of my first grandchild–in front of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in Manhattan. The...
Sep 18, 20117 min read
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