Tuesday, January 24, 2017

MONIKERS FOR GRANDMA?



New grandbaby!  The first!  How wonderful!  Unwittingly (I thought I was third) I got to hold her first.  Darling Hubby is always quick witted and the first thing he did was call her Miss Lilly.  

He'd called Clint's house to check on mother and daughter and told Clint, "Put Miss Lilly on the phone."  That's how she got her moniker from grandpa.

I'm still on the search for mine.  I need a grandma name.  Miss Lilly's mother keeps calling me grandma and I don't prefer it 'cause she's calling her own mother the same thing.  I want some differentiation, even just a smidgeon.

They call her dad papaw and John grandpa, so it would feel nice to make a difference with the grandma's as well.

In the meantime, I've been scouring the internet, checking any websites I find.  I've tossed a few out there to my FlyFriends to get their take on some of them.  And I've tried out a few on the boys.  From them I mostly get jokes and snickers and silly suggestions.  Of course, they insist on ones I refuse to use.


John's mother was Granny.  And let's be honest, though she was a good woman, raised a good son, was clean, and smart, and capable, and I respected her, she was odd.  The older she got, the odder she got.  And in her dotage she was also angry.  NO!  I do not want to be called Granny.  Besides that I was never a Bays, I was born a Leeman.  Well, the boys are okay with my refusal so they've come up with a new suggestion.  Grrrrrrrrrrrr.  Maybe I'll become angry in MY old age!  

Calling me Granny 2.0 just won't do!

2 comments:

  1. I wanted anya what my grandson began calling me. The ither gramma wanted memaw. Somehow he started calling me memaw, I changed it to mimom. You best come up with what you want or you will be grandma. I also like granmama,

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  2. How do you pronounce "mimom" long i or short?

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