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If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
Mama' (literally, maternal uncle),
She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.
Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn't do good for people, she did right by them.
Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.
One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.
I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'
Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother.
A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.
I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Grandma loved helping people, especially if it was against their will. "Let's
I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.
granny-humping butt sucker!
Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It's a law or something.
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.
Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter.
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.
Grandparents are God's gifts to children.
[My grandmother] is a typical white person.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
My grandmother
had no time for old,
no matter how her face crinkled
or her days folded like an apron around
her middle.
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother.
"What?"
"She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!"
"Take a picture for me," Grandma said.
a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.
Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
Grandma, how old is she?"
"Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.
I don't think grandma's a very good influence on us.
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
When my ma went off a old woman called Aunt Emmaline kep' me. (She kep' all de orphunt chillun an' dem who's mammas had been sent off to de breedin' quarters. When dem women had chillun dey brung 'em an' let somebody lak Aunt Emmaline raise em.)
So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.
(herself in the family-way),
One day I'll be a grandma who's been gangbanged.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
photographs at my grandmother's house - her
Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things ... like photo shoots!
It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have -
Always wise aunts come in many guises. There are maiden aunts, dowager aunts, and that delightful creature, the eccentric aunt. I fear I fall into the latter category.
Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat
work and carried on until she was seventy-two. Grandad worked in a nearby mill
Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.
I'll drive like my grandma. I'll drive like your grandma."
"You wouldn't say that if you knew my gramma.
As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.
My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
The elder Miss Larkin
Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."
"You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.
Are you okay? Were you hurt?"
"No, Gran, she's dying. She's bleeding out at your feet.
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.
A Mother is the heart of the home
My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.
My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.
She just happens to be my father, young man, and I'd appreciate it of you'd show her a little respect.
Gran follows recipes by looking at picture - to the eye, delicious; to the tongue, boiled socks. Makes you wanna cry really.
My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.
Grandmothers are the best female superheroes and I don't know why they don't have their own special day and month of the year to celebrate.
become great friends with Grandmother.' Mrs Nesbitt informs me, in her sweet, winsome way, that it is extremely important for a woman in her position to have her own life and her own circle of friends. She would not, she adds, be averse to marrying again.
Aunt Hilda,' Violet
My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.
You talk like somebody's grandmother, you know." "Shut
Oh, my giddy aunt!
I was the only one who knew what she was really like. My grandma was one evil cu**".
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
My son has an old mother.
She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man.
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting ... old? If I'm ... old, then what is she?
I'm not that hands-on as a grandfather.
My grandmother is a famous atlas.