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Offline ohcheap1

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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2009, 01:36:21 PM »
I agree, this is very cool thread.

Sadly, our daughter calls her Dad and me by our first names. People  think that is peculiar..... but she has been doing it since she was like 7.  Feels normal to me, and in a crowd I am more likely to respond when my name is called than when someone is screaming "Mom".

I call my Mom and Dad just that, Mom and Dad. Grandparents were plenty when I was growing up. so there was 2 set of Grandma First name and Grandpa first name but then the pair of Grandparents I was closest to (live with for awhile) were just plain Grandma and Grandpa.  My daughter has continued that. Grandma Linda and Grandpa Bob kinda thing.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2009, 01:51:55 PM »
I called both my Grandmothers just "Granny", I never knew my Granfathers.

My kids called my mother "Gran" and they call the wife's mother "Nana"

They call my father "Granpa" and they called the wife's father "Papa"
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2009, 01:53:45 PM »
Quote from: ohcheap1 on March 19, 2009, 01:36:21 PM

I call my Mom and Dad just that, Mom and Dad.

I call my mother M, but then I have always liked to abrvt.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2009, 12:49:36 AM »
I allways called my dad "the old man" ( millitary thing,,not a sign of disrespect) and since my mother is a Baptist Reverend and a retired doctor the " reverend Mother" or "Doc" lol
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2009, 02:12:02 AM »
Quote from: christ on March 19, 2009, 02:34:07 PM
Gesundheit.

I would have thought "Bless you" would have been more appropriate.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2009, 04:47:54 AM »
Quote from: HDAngel on March 19, 2009, 05:53:04 AM
My granddaughter is starting to try to communicate. It will be no time at all before she starts talking. So, I need to decide what I want her to call me. I called my moms mother grandma, but refused except that I could have two grandma's so I called my dads mother Nana. Being the mutt I am... English, Irish, Scottish, Russian, Polish, German, Cherokee and Choctaw Indian that I have many languages to choose from. I'm soooo confused. What do you call your grandma?
I haven't got to the stage where there are little uns about to address me. I hope it comes along soon though. My daughter says she plans to and it's on the list of things to do !!! (she is 29) Actually i am not bothered about what i might be called, I may be though if they use what i used for my nan's. I had BIG NAN and LITTLE NAN. really easy stuff and everyone knew who i meant. Hee hee. My nan's were great and i have really good memories of the huge great bed that i had to be helped into and the massive bolstor pillows that we used to puff up from either side of the bed and as i smacked my fists together to puff, she would pull it, toss it and turn it over leaving my hands smack together missing the target. Funny for a kid. Whatever you are called, you are a gran to your grandaughter and she will love you to bits as you do her.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2009, 03:17:17 PM »
Quote from: christ on March 20, 2009, 03:59:24 AM
Which is why, of course, i didn't use it.

Just as well, any more and I'll burst.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2009, 07:34:58 PM »
Quote from: smokester on March 20, 2009, 03:17:17 PM
Just as well, any more and I'll burst.
I want to see smokester burst.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2009, 11:32:47 PM »
...Clean up on aisle 1...christ just exploded poor Smokes...should be mandatory to have check valves installed before becoming an admin...
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2009, 01:35:48 PM »
Been there, done that.
NO KIDDING!!!!!!!
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2009, 04:43:00 PM »
I never knew any of my grandparents  :-\ , my parents, well i'd say my total contact with them has been .001 %  of my total life to this day, why? was born in one place, grew up in another, boarding school was a different place, high school and college still other places as well, and the university still a different place. Where I am now is still a place I havent been in my life before and I plan to go to  ??? ......(Yeah  :-\) .........a different place still, probably North US or Canada.

I have a large family, I just never got to be with them.  :(

As for kids, well I dont have any grand kids in the near future  :D :D

(...........ha ha ha, I like to think I'm some homeless guy with money and education  :D , but then there are plenty of those these days with the bad economy, anyway  :D :D..........)

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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #26 on: April 19, 2009, 05:14:18 PM »
Is that what you attribute this wayward loneliness to David? So you called your Grandparents - "You kinda look like my Mom/Dad" then right? That really is to bad  :-*
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2009, 05:35:18 PM »
Decedent.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2009, 08:35:27 PM »
^  :D

.........Oh my! now that i read that again it sounds too serious  :P  :D

Oops, i forgot, if they were alive I'd call them grandpa and gramma  :) , but thats what anyone would call their grands.

My moms is a Professor, I call her Mom and dads is a Federaaly  :D , I call him Pops.

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Quote from: ohcheap1 on April 19, 2009, 05:14:18 PM
wayward loneliness

Hey,  :( , come one now, I'm "Quite" normal  :D ,  it isnt "THAT serious" , I assure you. Its just that in my early life I never got to have close contact with my family.
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Re: What do you call your grandmother?
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2009, 04:00:13 PM »


I call my maternal grandmother Maw Maw and my paternal grandmother Granny...

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