Some of you may have already read this in an email, but just in case you haven't . . .

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 horsy 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 grand kids 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 Sith

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
grand baby 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

I miss my granma and grampa!

Not any more. It seems like most grandmas are getting their hair colored these days. I've been noticing more and more gray-haired men with women who appear to be close their age, but who have no grey hair.

I love being a grandma.

DOUBLE DITTO!!!!! And I am getting another grandchild, the fifth, in February.

I miss my granddad =(

me too

they were the best!

Ditto.

My Grandma is the best... she taught me how to play poker (and kept the pot when she won!), and I taught her how to drive

My grandmother used to bake the best chocolate layer cake with fudge frosting. Sometimes she'd call me and ask if I knew of anyone who might want one. I miss those calls.

I miss spending time on my grandparents farm. Grandma always put out enough food to feed an army. She made the best sugar cookies that I have never been able to find her recipe. At christmas, she had all sorts of goodies made, it must have taken her weeks to do but she wanted all her grandchildren to have their favorite.

That's the way my grandmother and, until recently, my mother have been. Not me! My poor grandchildren.

I never know either of my Grandfathers, they both passed away before I was born, but I have lots of pictures of them and feel as if I know them. My Mom's mother died just before my 5th birthday, and my Dad's mother died when I was 19. This just made me sad!

My Babcia was my idol. I've tried to be the woman, mother and grandmother she was. Hopefully I'll get a crack at emulating her as a greatgrandmother too. Just writing this brings tears to my eyes. After all these years, I still miss her.

Nothing like them...I especially remember my pawpaw. He was kind, hard working, with a robust laugh. He was a Police Sergeant and sherriff, so he used to take us all out riding in the woods teaching us about the trees and the ways of the land as well as showing us the old "stills" he busted up when he was Policing. We would run up and down the hills and through the trees until we couldn't catch our breath, then sit by the river stream and listen to him tell us all his war stories and try to teach us about being good decent young men & women when we got older and how to handle the tough days that would come our way.

When we got home later that night my grandmother would have us a wonderful garden cooked meal and we'd sit around the table laughing about the day...then retire to the front porch swing that night and talk some more...maybe stopping to catch some lightening bugs or play hiding seek. We did this so many weekends when I was growing up!!!

You said it Truff...for me, I know I will never be a fraction of the person my grandparents were...that is if I am ever blessed to be a grandparent, but oh what a privilege to have known them and to share those kind of wonderful times and life.

Thanks for this thread and allowing us to remember what really were to me...the good ole days!