Sunday, October 2, 2011
Grandparent Names
According to AARP some baby boomers don't care for the traditional Grandma and Grandpa, they rather have more unique names. My mom was trying to think of a neat one for herself since her sisters are GiGi and MiMi. I call her G-ma for fun. To help her out with her quest to find a good grandparent name I went straight to the source, Google! I found an article from AARP that says Goldie Hawn's grandchild calls her Glam-ma because she couldn't say grandma. I continue on with my search and find http://www.grandparetns.com/ a complete list of traditional, trendy and playful grandparent names. I begin naming off names for my parents such has Pippy and Pepe (french). My sister said Pippy reminded her of Pippy Longstockings and my mom misread Pepe, not in the french term. Jeepers and Peepers, (lol this is getting silly) which reminds me of that song Jeepers Creepers. Vanna and Papster, thinking of Vanna White so we had to find something to go along with that and we found Papster on the list, which made people think of something else. Then I came up with my own age appropriate names; Sonny and Cher, to which my mom responded "does that make you Chaz?" So I went on with the list of the names my children will NEVER call my mother; Foxy, Toots and Sugar. There weren't any odd grandfather names like that. We are all thinking that G-ma and G-pa or just the normal/old school Grandma and Grandpa aren't so bad any more!
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