To be a grandma....I've been thinking about that word grandma....the picture above is of my grandma Bertha (my dad's mom) my cousin Rudy Gene and me on the chair....now I always knew my grandmas loved me...especially my grandma Lena (my moms mom) for she would always bring me story book dolls when she went on trips and salt and pepper shakers which i collected (Why did I collect salt and pepper shakers?).she bought me things..but anyway, I feel that I never really knew my grandma Bertha....I was never really close at all with her....grandma Lena once lived with us, so I knew her better...when I would sass her, (who me?) she would always come back with "I hope you have kids someday that sass you like that")...and I did....they tried....LOL...but my point of this story is, I wish I was a grandma like my mom and mother in law was to my kids...they always would keep them overnight for sleep overs, my mom always let them get away with more than my mother in law....LOL...they would bake, play dress up, and for some reason I just don't have that in me...kids make me nervous....maybe because I was an only child. I love my grandkids with all my heart...and once in a while I have or will watch them, but I have no patients....I wish I was a good, anything can go grandma....I sort of feel guilty...they grow up so fast....Grandma is a word that means cookies, tea parties, a game of catch, or monopoly...Oh heck, it is what it is....they do know I love them, for I tell them all the time...and I would give up my life for anyone of them.....just not baking cookies....
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
To be a grandma...
To be a grandma....I've been thinking about that word grandma....the picture above is of my grandma Bertha (my dad's mom) my cousin Rudy Gene and me on the chair....now I always knew my grandmas loved me...especially my grandma Lena (my moms mom) for she would always bring me story book dolls when she went on trips and salt and pepper shakers which i collected (Why did I collect salt and pepper shakers?).she bought me things..but anyway, I feel that I never really knew my grandma Bertha....I was never really close at all with her....grandma Lena once lived with us, so I knew her better...when I would sass her, (who me?) she would always come back with "I hope you have kids someday that sass you like that")...and I did....they tried....LOL...but my point of this story is, I wish I was a grandma like my mom and mother in law was to my kids...they always would keep them overnight for sleep overs, my mom always let them get away with more than my mother in law....LOL...they would bake, play dress up, and for some reason I just don't have that in me...kids make me nervous....maybe because I was an only child. I love my grandkids with all my heart...and once in a while I have or will watch them, but I have no patients....I wish I was a good, anything can go grandma....I sort of feel guilty...they grow up so fast....Grandma is a word that means cookies, tea parties, a game of catch, or monopoly...Oh heck, it is what it is....they do know I love them, for I tell them all the time...and I would give up my life for anyone of them.....just not baking cookies....
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I know how you feel Judy, the grandchildren grow up faster than we did, they have all the technology games we didn't but are they any happier? mine are approaching their teens yet I feel quite distant from them not in miles but I can't keep up with their interest. I love them to bits but as I said there is that "Distance" sad really.
Yvonne.
Hi Judy :) I received your message, dropped by and read about your Grandma. it made me smile - for some reason I am remembering mine, and my older Auntie. collect the china tea cups :), I did "sass" mine at times.
What a lovely post and I sure do miss mine.
Deb
tea and photos/at the cottage
I was thinking something very similar recently. I do keep grandkids every so often...but NOT overnight.
I've had to learn to 'tune out the noise' and 'overlook the mess'...so that I don't spend the entire time they're here hollering at them.
I have had to cut 'family Sundays' down to every other week though.
I was a hands on sort of grandma. As you said the tea parties, overnighters, cookies and all that but I have to say there were times!!! I had more patience with my grandkids than I do with the great grandkids and as you say I love each of them dearly, I'm just done raising kids.
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