Splitcoaststampers.com - the world's #1 papercrafting community
You're currently viewing Splitcoaststampers as a GUEST. We pride ourselves on being great hosts, but guests have limited access to some of our incredible artwork, our lively forums and other super cool features of the site! You can join our incredible papercrafting community at NO COST. So what are you waiting for?
We are Grandmama & Granddaddy to our 2 granddaughters,(26 &24) Our 7yr. old Great-Grandson calls us Grandmama & G-Daddy. Our 4 yr. old grandson calls me BoBo & Gene GiGi. Our almost 2 year old Great-grandson calls me Bobo & Gene Granddaddy. I don't know what our new GGS will call us. Anyway, that is where I came up with my SCS name, Grandmama Bobo. My folks were always Mama & Papa. Gene folks were Grandma & Bobo. It is funny how they come up with all of this.
__________________ Janet - aka Ridge Stalker
Wife of 52 yrs, 2D, 2GD, 1GS, 3GGS
Check out MY GALLERYhttps://www.splitcoaststampers.com/g...0&ppuser=67069 Glitter Mafia member. Proud to be a fan club member. #67069
I know these must be repeats as I didn't read all of the posts. :rolleyes:
I am "Mimi".
DH is both "PopPop" and "Papa" - depending on which GSon is talking.
My kids use 'Grandma', 'Grandpa', and 'Granddad'. I think they're all necessary! :lol:
My girlfriends grandkids call her Ya Ya, the (a) is pronounced like the a in the word (saw) and for grandpa it is Ta Ta, I have no idea where it comes from her hubby is mexican and her children are from her first marriage and they are american indian from the Choctaw tribe. You all have me thinking now. I'm gonna have to e-mail her and find out where those names came from.
Anyone know what the word for Grandma and Grandpa in Swiss is??
our granddaughter calls my husband and I...Mema and Pepa. I've seen it listed above but it's spelled differently...not sure how she came up with these names but she somehow did and they stuck....wouldn't want to be called by any other name now. My daughter's called my parents...Nana and Pa.
Last edited by luv2stamp52; 09-22-2007 at 03:54 PM..
Reason: forgot to write something
I am looking for suggestions of what you call your grandparents in your family. I'll be making stamps that coordinate with my stamp line and I want to be able to offer those unique titles that we use other than Grandma and Grandpa. But beyond Nana & Papa, and Memere & Pepere, I'm out of ideas. Help!
Grandma and Grandpa for my grandparents
My grandkids call us grammy and grampy and they call the great-grandparents Grandma (last name) Grandpa (last name)
In German they are Oma and Opa - we are of German descent but the kids didn't pick that up.
__________________ Did you know nearly 1 in 2 Americans live with chronic illness? chronic illness?
Our grandson started calling us Grandmom and Grandpop when he became old enough to talk. That stuck and all of the grand children refer to us by that name. I kinda like it. I called my grandparents Ma and Papaw, and Mammaw and Papaw.
My mom is called Mormor ( Swedish fo Mothers mother) and my dad is called Boppa ( a made up name- I guess he didn't want to be Morfar) My in laws are Yia-Yia and Papou ( Greek ) and I am Big Mom to Whitney Jean(almost 2) and my hubby is just Grandpa.
My kids call their grandparents plain old "grandma" and "grandpa" (with first names following, ie "grandpa Bob". They have two grandma Marilyns (one who lives just a few miles from us). So, my mom is now "far-away grandma Marilyn". My great grandma was called grandma-gram. My husband called his great-grandparents Dodi and Bobi (czech, not sure of spelling).
__________________ Not quite creative
---------------------
Don't worry about tomorrow, each day has enough trouble of it's own. (Matthew 6:34)
I'm called "Gran," and I love it. I knew I didn't want to be called 98% of the choices out there, so picked "Gran" myself. Then when I'd hold my precious little new grandchild and talk to him, I'd say "Gran loves you!" to reinforce my name (not only to him, but to others), and also say it every time he left my house. He started out calling me "Ran" when he began talking, but that changed to "Gran" in a month or so. He's almost 3 now, has a new sibling on the way, and I get to do it all over again!
Sue
Granmere and Granpere are the names used in our house. My husband's parents (particularly my MIL) did not want to be called Granny. Since my inlaws are of French descent, it works fine.
My grandparents were always Grandma and Grandpa last name. Then, when the 1st great grandchild was born, my niece, my dad was Papa and my grandpa was Big Papa. My mom became Grandma and my grandma became Grammy. Now that I have a child, I'm so used to using those names around her that I use them all the time.
My dd is only 5, but I've already decided that if she has children someday, I would like to be called Gigi. Not because of feeling old, I just think it sounds so much more fun!
Great thread and great idea for the stamps! Sometimes "Grandmother" and "Grandfather" just don't fit.
__________________ An - SCS member #44271 "I'm a mystery wrapped in a riddle, covered with chocolate sprinkles." - Cookie Monster my tiny gallery
My Mom and Dad are Mimi and Grampy. My inlaws cant decide what they want to be called lol, and our daughter is now 18 months old. I like the Grammie, that may be what my mil becomes.
All those names listed previously are familiar to me, but MY kids call my mother-in-law "Bubbe".
It was explained to me by my husband's family that it is an endearing term for grandmother in Yiddish.
I would love to have "Grammy" and "Grampy" stamps for the cards we make my parents from the kids. Unfortunately, my inlaws are no longer with us but the kids called them Papa and Grandma. My 91 year old grandmother is called Gramma. My kids call her Gramma Carrie. I named my daughter after my grandmother.
I called my grandparents Mimi and Pawpaw.
My kids call my parents Mamaw and Papaw (accent on the first syllable...MAM-awww and PAP-awww) which I just love!
And they call my MIL Bubbie, that's a Jewish grandma.
My mom was a grandma, my grandmother was a grandma, and my Great Grandmother was Mamo...(pronounced Maw-Mo) her husband, my Great grandfather was Papo (prounounced Paw- Po). They were Scottish, but I am not sure if that figured into what we called them. I think it was just because my mom could not say Grandma and Grandpa as a young child.
I personally giggle whenever I hear what Ivanna Trump has her new grandson calling her...."Glam-ma"... hehehehe....
I love this too! Sure makes me miss them all! Mine were: Nana and Grandad, MeeMaw and Papa and Grammy. My father's dad died before I was born and the reason I had two other sets is that my Mother's parents were divorced. My Mother and Father's names from my oldest nephews were Grandma and Grandpa but when my son came along he named them Nanny and Pop.
My kids use the typical Grandma, Papa,etc. But my grandmother was called GG by my kids. She was their great-grandmother - thus became GG. She loved it when my son came up with it.
A friend is called YaYa by her grandson. I always thought that was cool. My mom always wanted something other than Grandma, but nothing ever stuck.
__________________ Martha
"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." Jean Shinoda Bolen
We have....
Gramma Colette, Gramma Ormajean(I called her Grandmama growing up) , Gramma Phillis, & Gramma Mimi. Since there were 4 of them, it was much easier to just use Gramma and then their name. My dad is their only Grandpa and they call him PapPap. My dad is from Pennsylvania and they refer to the Grandpa's down there as Grandpap or PapPap.
My children have 3 sets of grandparents - my husband's parents, my mom and step-dad, and my dad and step-mom. For some reason, when my oldest child began talking, he called them all "Memaw" and "Pepaw" (long e sound on both). To differentiate, he would call them by the color of their house. So we had "Memaw and Pepaw at the red house", "Memaw and Pepaw at the yellow house" and "Memaw and Pepaw at the white house." To complicate matters, my grandparents were still alive - and so they were known as "Memaw and Pepaw at the white house with the porch swing." Even after dh's parents moved, and my parents painted their house, those names stuck.
__________________ Changing yourself is hard.
Changing others is impossible. Let God do both!
Last edited by MT Nest; 09-25-2007 at 04:36 PM..
Reason: correction in tense
