Comments on: Grandma, Pe-po, Gee-ma, or Gramps? What’s in a Name?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:42:03 +0000

Cute story, Linda! Thanks for sharing it!

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:13:44 +0000

Before our first grandchild was born, I decided that our grandchildren would call me Grammie. I really don’t know why, I just thought it was kind of catchy. Well, as I helped our first grandson learn to talk, I would say “Grammie” and he would laugh and jump up and down and say “Ammie”! Of course, five grandsons later, I am still Ammie. Once again I am reminded how many things I can’t control and that I don’t always know best. My husband is and has always been Granddad. Now, why didn’t they call him “Amdad”? Hummm…..

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:47:45 +0000

Congratulations, Rhodema! Let us know what name you end up with! Of course, like many, it may change through the years!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:44:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Jason!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:44:08 +0000

Iris, thank you for sharing your fun stories! I love those names!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:42:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Judy! Those grandkids do make us melt, don’t they?

By: Judy Keesee (Jurgensen)

Judy Keesee (Jurgensen) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:42:46 +0000

Hi Becky,
What a lovely story on Grandmother and Grandaddys and their special names. I think we must be way behind in the grandparent depart! We have only one granddaughter and being the teenager that she is calls us Mom and Dad. When she was young, she heard daughter, Kari, calling us Mom and Dad on the phone a lot as they lived out of town then. We have a couple of “grandkids of the heart” who call us GMom and Pops, tho’. As you said, no matter what they call us we melt, too.

Love, Judy

By: Iris Wilson

Iris Wilson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:26:53 +0000

Rebecca, I think the most unique name for a grandfather was what my brother’s grands called him, Eye-daddy! Interstingly, the way it got started the son with the oldest grandchild would drop in to see my brother and sister-in-law and would say Hi, Daddy! Well, Chase thought he was saying “Eye-daddy” so that is what stuck. Just to make it more special my brother was an Optometrist

I chose Grandmother for me because another sister-in-law had grands before we did and the little ones (before they could say Grandmother) called her Granmudder. I thought that was adorable. A few years ago one of my older granddaughters started calling me GMother for short. That has stuck with some of the kids now. It makes me feel a little bit like a “private-eye” which is certainly needed with 4 of them being teenagers now.

By: JASON ANDRREWTOPPIN FROM BORONIA MELBOURNE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA

JASON ANDRREWTOPPIN FROM BORONIA MELBOURNE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:41:26 +0000

Rebecca
Both of my Grandmothers names are Mary Bigham and Peral Northover they married to Francis Ralyor Bigham and Dennis Notrthover who have now passed away from cancer God rest Their Souls. . Marry’s Mother’s name was Ann McCafrey and Peral’s Mother’s name was Elizbeth Rebel.
God Bless YOU
Jason

By: Rhodema Cargill

Rhodema Cargill — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:03:21 +0000

What a timely post! We are expecting our first and I don’t know what to be called or how to decide.

Blessings,

Rhodema