When I was a kid, I saw my grandmother as an old woman. Now I realize that at the time, she was younger than I am now! She wore support stockings and cats eye glasses and had her gray hair rinsed with bluing. And my other grandma? When she was my age, she was already dead. Things have changed, but I don’t know whether they’ve changed for the better (OK, that part about still being alive is better). Baby Boomers are the grandparents these days. Or even Generation X! When I had a real job, there were two women I worked with who were both 12 years younger than I am, and they both have grandchildren. One had kids very young, the other married an older man who already had grandchildren. And here I am, with kids I can’t send home to their parents. Because I’m the parent. But I’ve never exactly fit in with the normal scheme of things.

My kids don't know any different. For all they know, all parents ask their children to read the small print for them!

Emergency

One angry Grandma.

Blog of the Day: Grandma Hardcore. Grandma is a video game maniac.

My Wish for My Grandchildren.

Who will take care of Grandma? 

QUOTES

Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there. -Ron Richards

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. -Rita Rudner

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses--drinks right out of the bottle.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. -Ellen DeGeneres

FACTS OF LIFE

When my granddaughter, Abby was 9-years-old, she was given an assignment by her teacher to write a story on "Where my family came from." The purpose was to understand your genealogy.

I was not aware of her assignment when she asked me at the dining room table one night, "Grandma, where did I come from?"

I responded quite nervously because my son and daughter-in-law were out of town and I was stalling until they returned home, "Well, honey, the stork brought you."

"Where did Mom come from then?"

"The stork brought her, too."

"OK, then where did you come from?"

"The stork brought me too, dear."

"Okay, thanks, Grandma."

I did not think anything more about it until two days later when I was cleaning Ann's room and read the first sentence of her paper, "For three generations there have been no natural births in our family."

Grandpa

(Thanks, Rich!)
There was a family gathering, with a number of generations around the table.   The teenagers put a Viagra tablet into Grandpa's drink.

After a while, Grandpa excused himself to go to the bathroom.  When he returned, however, his trousers were wet all down the front.

"What happened, Grandpa?"  he was asked by his concerned children.

"Well,"  he answered,  "I don't really know...I had to go to the bathroom...so I took it out and started to pee, but then I saw that it wasn't mine,  so I put it back!"

IN THE CAR

(via Phil’s Phun)
Grandpa was driving with his 9 year old granddaughter and beeped the horn by mistake.
She turned and looked at him for an explanation.

He said, "I did that by accident."

She replied, "I know that, Grandpa."

He replied, "How did you know?"

She said, "Because you didn't say "asshole" afterwards.

Previously at Miss Cellania: More posts on Old Age. 

Thought for today: The best place to be when you're sad is Grandma's lap.

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