INSIGHTFUL NANA SHOPPING SPREE My grandkids and I love to go shopping. Our favorite place is the “dollar store” and we have a shopping ritual we all love. The number of grands participating vary… some times there is only two and some times there are seven or eight. The kids range from 3 to 12 […]
Jacks – Grandma’s favorite Recess Game My absolute favorite game to play at recess when I was in elementary school was JACKS and the above picture is my jacks, bag and ball from when I was a little girl! I lived in Tempe, Arizona and attended Hudson Elementary. During recess you would see groups […]
“I’m just a photographer working on my craft every day in some small way. I want to share with you what I saw at that moment in time” To my grandchildren I’m “Grammie with the camera”. It’s part of my identity. There have been very few times in their lives they’re seen me without a camera in […]
Think happy thoughts and you will fly. Peter Pan was right. I currently have 16 happy thoughts that never fail to help me to fly over the doldrums the ho-hum, the not so fun part of growing up or in my case of growing older. Grandchildren are my happy thoughts. They can lift me into […]
Family History: Easier and More Captivating than You Think image courtesy of pbs.org Blood Connection I didn’t always care about genealogy work. I didn’t know these people anyway. Finding data was difficult and boring (e.g., birth date, death date). However, I happened upon articles about my ancestors that caught my attention and my […]
I am thrilled to announce this week as ~Grandparents Week~ all week long a different Grandparent will be entertaining us with their wonderful ideas. Some of them I am related to and some are not, we will have Grandmas and Grandpas! Moments I Cherish with My Grandparents ~After I got married we moved clear across the […]
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