Okay, we'll all have to get busy here. One of Polly's gators is getting so hungry for inept medical staff, rotten salespeople, etc., that it tried to ring a doorbell to enter a home! I saw it on the news this morning....
Taria, I only have one sibling, a sister. She is a miserable individual and a b***h to boot. I called her when Norah (first great child for our parents and our first granchild was born) was 10 minutes old to share my joy. Norah is now almost 3 weeks old and I have not had one call or any communication from her. I have sent e-mail with photos and have gotten no response. On level, I am done with her. She is the kind of person who is "What have you done for me lately?" or I need your support now so I will "let you in". I am lucky to have caring friends where I live and children near me to share the joy. She is the one that is missing out. One of my kids said she is jealous. How sad not to rejoice in the birth of a baby. Thanks for letting my vent.
Linda in Tx
Linda, you have my sympathy. I have a great sister, though we live too far apart to do much together except video chat . But our mother is a different story. She told me at one point that the Bible says to honor your father and mother but that not a word is said about honoring your spouse, so I was supposed to ignore him (she'd have preferred me to divorce him) and jump to her tune. She has also hated my children since birth -- probably because she was jealous of the time I spent with them instead of with her. She stole a significant amount of money from me, and I could go on and on. She puts on a great act with people outside of the family. We haven't spoken in years. There's a certain sense of freedom when you cut someone so poisonous out of your life.
Yes Sandy, Some folks have suggested she is jealous, but her life is good, and she has 3 kids that are doing well too. I will never figure her out and after this I give up. Too much energy required.
Linda in Tx
Yes Taria, I have much more important things to think about. Of course, she would love it if I was totally occupied with "her" and actually bothered to call her. She hasn't even called my DS yet. Just weird! We saw Norah last night. She had been quite fussy (gas?), but as soon as Nana came she did quiet down and snooze a bit. My DDIL was really tired yesterday. I wish she wasn't still exclusively BF-ing so I could give her a good few hours of rest. Next week Norah will be 4 weeks old and I think she will start to introduce a supplemental bottle.
Loving every minute of this Nana thing in Tx
Linda
Nana2b, just when you can - or when you can get the help needed to do it, let's change your name to " nana1 " . or something. nana i am ? nanabe ? Polly
Well, now that things have settled down just a bit, yeah right. I think I want to change it to IBNANA or IMNANA. If y'all (like my Texan talk) have suggestions, send them on down.
Linda in Tx
Howdy!
NanaNew
and she quilts!
Ragmop/Sandy--channeling Mork from Ork
But Sandy, I might be NanaNew now, but everyday I get closer to NanaOld! LOL Linda in Tx
As I found out several months ago, you are what the babies call you! To my grandson, I am "Nana". With my 8 month old DGD in Florida, it's still TBD.
The SMDGD has a whole slew of "grandparents" so everyone has a different "name". My Dad & his wife are PopPop & Grandma Bet, which is what DD calls them & now so does the SMDGD. DD's best friend's folks are Granny Joyce & GrandDad John. The Sperm Donor (my first spouse, DD's father) and his wife are Papa Chuck & Gramma'Laine and DD's inlays are Grandma and Papa (no other names). DH & I are GrandMother & GrandFather which the SMDGD (at the ripe old age of 3) pronounces GaMunner & GaFahter. I'm not really sure just *how* she will pronounce this as she gets older but I'm sure it will be interesting :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<
PAX, Tia Mary (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
Hi Mary, They will call you what they will. Usually it is humourous and endearing. My son called my folks, MeeMa and Peepa until he grew into Grandma & Grandpa. Since Norah was born he has called us that a few times. Ahhh how it brings back memories.
Linda in Tx
Welllll.. actually I disagree - they will call you want you want them to if told to. How I know? well my mother has a "death sentence" on anyone that dares to call her anything else than Tricia or Mrs. Thompson. that goes for me grand kids and all and sundry.
My DH's grandparents were Nana & Papa and even my parents called them Nana & Papa. My heart will truly sing when Norah calls me by any name.
Linda in Tx
I had two Nanas and two Grandpas when I was growing up; we simply added their last name to the title. When my turn to become a grandmother came, I didn't want to have the same name as anyone else so that no other name would have to be added -- probably silly, but that's how it is. Anyway, I'd wanted to be Nana to follow my family "tradition", but the other grandmother was to be Nana (pronounced Nahnah, since it's in Spanish), and I thought that might be confusing, especially since DMIL is Nanny. LOL! So I eventually became Mémé. Can't find cutesy little coffee mugs and that sort of thing with Mémé on them, but who cares? I'm using a not-common-in-these-parts name, and that makes me unique. :D
OTOH, DH is Grandpa, as is the other grandfather of two of our DGSs. DH is Grandpa, and the other one is Grandpa + first name. Works for us. :)
Odd, in my spanish speaking family Grandma is Abuelita.
At any rate my mexican grandparents went by Grandma Mary and Papa. My other grandparents were grandma and grandpa with their last name added.
When my sister had the first grandchild her in-laws chose grandma and grandpa with their first names added. My parents chose Granny and Pa as their parents (and a great grandma) were still in the mix.
Later on of the animated Disney flicks came out on video and the evil grandmother was called "granny". (snow white I think) My mom was worried that the children would associate the two. Didn't happen though :-)
marcella aunt and great-aunt (and favorite aunt ;-)) but grandma is a ways off
In Danish, there is a distinction between paternal and maternal=20 grandparents built into the words.
Mormor =3D mother's mother Morfar =3D mother's father Farmor =3D father's mother Farfar =3D father's father
Of course, these days many kids have more than 2 parents, I don't know=20 how they handle the grandparent naming then.
Personally, I'm thrilled to be "Auntie Hanne" to at least a few kids :-)
Hanne in London
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