In my close extended family, the following are used:
grandma/grandpa
grandmommy/granddaddy
grandma (last name)/grandpa (last name)
mom-o/dad-o
grandma/pa pa
grandma/granddad
meema/peepa
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
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msbelle - Jun 16, 2009 8:37:38 am PDT #24536 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse - Jun 16, 2009 8:38:12 am PDT #24537 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I called my mother Mama for a long time, but not Momma!
Trudy Booth - Jun 16, 2009 8:38:30 am PDT #24538 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh, and my one little cousin called his great grandmother "Grammamommy" since she was his Gramma's Mommy.
Kathy A - Jun 16, 2009 8:38:58 am PDT #24539 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Grandpa and Grandma for me (although maternal grandmother was Gramma because that's how she spelled it, not how I said it).
Oh, Father's Day--I have to get stuff! I'm debating if I want to splurge and pick him up some Omaha Steaks, which he would love.
tommyrot - Jun 16, 2009 8:39:01 am PDT #24540 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anybody else call their moms Momma?
My sons call their moms "Mom" and "Momma" to differentiate them....
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msbelle - Jun 16, 2009 8:39:37 am PDT #24541 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
my great grandmother was Treasure to everyone.
my Grandma is GG to her now 8 great grandchildren.
Trudy Booth - Jun 16, 2009 8:41:16 am PDT #24542 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
(although maternal grandmother was Gramma because that's how she spelled it, not how I said it).
When we first started writing on cards we went with the "Gramma/Grampa" spellings because of pronounciation even though we knew "Grandma/Grandpa" were more correct.
We are from New Jersey, after all. We need to conserve the letter "D" whenever possible... we're saving them up for all those eliminated "T"s.
flea - Jun 16, 2009 8:46:53 am PDT #24543 of 30000
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I called my grandparents Dod and George and Sam and Barbara. We wuz free-thinkin' hippies.
My kids have Grandma Debbie and Grampy Don, Grandma and Grandpa (lastname), and Grandpa Toby and Grandma Terry.
ETA: I am eating mashed potatoes with numb lips. They gave me Hydrocodone! I could become an addict, dude!
lisah - Jun 16, 2009 8:50:38 am PDT #24544 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
my Grandma is GG to her now 8 great grandchildren.
My grandmom was GG to her greats who were around while she was alive too!
Both sets of grandparents were Grandmom & Grandad to us sometimes with the last name appended if there would be confusion. My parents are Granny & Grandad.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2009 8:51:11 am PDT #24545 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How was it, flea?