Mommyisms, Nannieisms & Love 

 

Welcome to a page filled with laughter and love. 

 Our children are our most precious gift from God and each little heart is very unique. 

Feel free to share quotes/observations/comments from the children in your life.

 They have insights into situations that are not only unique to their age group, but continually provide us with a glimpse at how special they are.

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  Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,
And they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just "antique" little girls. ~Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead
Of the television. ~Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just 
a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because
Grandfathers have only so many horsey rides in them. ~Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just
you all day, and now the day was complete. ~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. ~Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our
Hearts forever. ~Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren,
I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after
two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. ~Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should
advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is
No fun for old people like it! ~Hannah Whithall Smith

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother - that's why the
world calls her grandmother. ~Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing
old. ~Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain
it to your grandmother. ~Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again.
Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly. ~ Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby's grandparents. You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long
periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida . ~Dave Barry 

  I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for
Self-defense. ~Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas
are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of
Little children. ~Alex Haley

Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of
Practice. ~Author Unknown

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on
the inside. ~Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new
Grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~Joy Hargrove

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you
become one. ~Author Unknown

If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses,
sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the
time," you're the grandma. ~Teresa Bloomingdale

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have
around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their
Grandchildren. ~Author Unknown

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say
That grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can
but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they
can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge
that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie 

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  Our 5 year old son loved hockey ever since he received his first pair of skates at 2 1/2.  For a treat he'd be allowed to watch a bit of an NHL game if it was on early evening.  He quickly came to know that O Canada was played before the start of each game.   We'd have to keep the TV turned down low when a game came on because, if he was still awake and heard O Canada, he'd bug us to let him get up and watch the game.

Him, his 2 year old brother and I were attending a Sunset Ceremony at CFB Cornwallis where my husband was an Instructor.  He was participating in the parade and as we sat in the bleachers, the boys tried to pick their father out of the group of soldiers marching by.  When they found him they waved vigorously but were disappointed when Daddy didn't wave in return. I explained why he couldn't and I'm sure some of the parents sitting around us had experienced something similar with their children.

  As everyone formed up on the parade square the band started playing O Canada and we all stood - and my 5 year old hollered "Hey Mom, that's the same song they play for the hockey games".  His outburst brought some muffled chuckles and I'm sure a few smiles. - definitely not expected at that solemn moment of paying tribute to our great country - but nevertheless something I've always remembered.  Incidentally, his love for hockey never waivered.....

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  Kids are so matter of fact and honest - I enjoy every minute I spend with my 4 grandchildren. My grandson is 5 and he seems a bit obsessed with how old I am (66) Yesterday he was with his father, younger sister (3) and grandfather at Timmy's when a friend of my husband's arrived. He's a retired military mechanic and had just restored a very old jeep - it had no doors, no roof etc but it was all freshly painted in camouflage colors and of course both children were able to crawl all over it. Twice he exclaimed - "This jeep is older than Nannie!!!" As if he didn't think there was anything older than me.... Heart melts.

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  When we went home to visit family my three year old son Damian, kept looking around like he was missing something. I kept asking him what was wrong and each time he replied "nothing mommy". On our way home the closer we got to home the more comfortable he seemed. I mentioned it to my husband and he told me he was just homesick let him be. Of course as a mother the next day I sat him down and said "honey how come when we were at nana and papa's you looked so lost? Did you loose something?" to which he replied "Yes mommy I did!" Confused I dug a little deeper. "What did you loose, A toy?" "No mommy. I lost all the green men!" Still confused I asked him "what men?" "You know all the green daddy's!" Suddenly it occurred to me my son moved into a PMQ at eight days old and was lost not watching through the front window and trying to guess which green person was his father. Lol! I've never laughed so hard.    Katie Adams

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 My grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked  me how old I was, and I told him, "67."

 He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"

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 After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old  slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew  thin. At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room,  putting them back to bed with stern warnings.   As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"

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 A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own  childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a  swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We  rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little  girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"

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 My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandpa, do you  know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I  asked, "No, how are we alike?"   "You're both old," he replied.

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 A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word  processor. She told him she was writing a story.   "What's it about?" he asked. "I don't know," she replied "I can't read."

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 I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I  decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it  was. She would tell me, and always she was correct. But it was fun for  me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely,  "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!"

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 When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept  the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky  insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I   did, Billy whispered, "It's no use, Grandpa. The mosquitoes are coming after us with  flashlights."

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 When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not  sure."  "Look in your underwear, Grandma," he advised. "Mine says I'm four to six."

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 A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother,  "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The  grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.   "That's interesting," she said, "How do you make babies?"  "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'"

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 Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a  teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant."  The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what  pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confidently. "It means carrying a child."

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 A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids  home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in t he front seat  of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing  the dog's duties.   "They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster.  "No, said another, "he's just for good luck."  A third child brought the argument to a close. "They use the dogs", she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant."

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