Mine were Nana & Pop

My paternal grandparents were long dead by the time I was born. My maternal grandparents were "grandma" and "grandpa" before they passed.

CarrieLee said:

Ditto!

Nan and Pa.

I call them all my Guardian Angels now

They're all deceased now, but I called them

Granmom & Grandad (mothers parents)

and

Mama & Henry (father's parents)

....and yea, I called my grandfather by his first name, Henry my whole life, and he loved it

I only knew my dad's mom, and she's dead now. My Mom's mom is still alive, but I've never met her
I call both "Grammaw" when reffering to them. And I call my grandfathers "Grampaw" lol

I nevr could get that "n" in there.

I keep it short and sweet for my grandma. She's gramma, granny, and on a good day, ma. (she raised me as one of her own after my own mother died.) When my grandfathers were alive, they were just grandpa or gramps.

There was only one left when I appeared, I called him Papaw.

Gram and PeePaw.
Abuelo and Abuela.

They Are All Gone

When my son and daughter-in-law told me that they were expecting a baby I spent most of my time trying to think of a name that I'd like.

I started off thinking that GrrrandMaMa might be a suitable, dignified name which would automatically give me an air of the superior matriach

BUT - now Millie and Daisy (yes - they had twins) are here, I'm just palin old Nan or Nanny - and I love it!

OPEE and OMEE

My grandparents are all deceased,but I use to call my Mom's Mom Granny,and her Dad,Grandpa. I wasn't really close to my Dad's parents so I don't know if I called them anything.


Not sure,but my Granny was German.



We decided when my grandmother passed away to included "Granny" on her tombstone. So her headstone read Laverne "Granny" Allen.
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EmeraldSkies said:

I'm sure she likes it.

None of mine are alive but I still remember them and talk about them. I was only close to one of them. She is my Mom-Mom Tweed(her sir name), even though she is my great grandmother. She raised my dad and he calls her mom.

My grandparents on my mom's side were Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop Greigg.

mormor and farmor, I never had any grandpas (which would have been morfar and farfar)

my kids have: abuela and abuelo, and momo and fofa (Oscar's version of mormor and morfar, so cute all 4 grandkids call them that )

I think I called my Indian grandparents mummagee and bubbagee but I only met them once, when I was around 10 and we went to India for a trip.

I called my maternal grandparents "nanny" and "grandad".

They are all dead now

sweet said:

I like Mama ... she sounds like a character

meow85 said:

I hope so.

I used to call them Mami and Papi...but they passed a long time ago....

Pop-pop and Nana are in heaven now.

While my Mom's mom was alive, I called her MaMA'(the emphasis on the second syllable). I never met my mom's Dad. He died b4 I was born, when my Ma was 16.
I had met my MaMA' a hand full of times. All I really remember is she had ALL her faculties but NO teeth...lol. I remember she gave me some change to go get some candy for myself when I was like 4. So me and my bro went to the store at the corner and I got some Now & Laters. Since my MaMA' gave me the change for them, I wanted to share them with her, but was worrier it might pull her last 3 teeth out. So I asked my Ma if I could offer her one and she said yes. I said but ma...won't it pull her teeth out?. She said no it wont. So I gave her one and stupid me didn't reliaze she could suck on it.....DUH!!!!


My Dad's parents we simple Grandma and Grandpa. Pronounced more like gramma and grampa. My Granmpa is dead now, but I don't miss him cuz I think about him everyday. We were kinda close. My Grandma is another story. She's all zombied out in some nursing home. I see go see her from time to time. But it's hard...u know. We were never really close like me and my grampa. They had seperated when I was younger so I kind of developed different relationships with them. They were'nt like "a pair"...u know?...



sorry for the news article...lol

CarrieLee said:

thats what I was going to say
cold, but true!

My Opa and Oma mentioned above have both passed but are very much still in my life. It's almost as if they're still around. I imagine that's probably weird for most.

My grandmother on my mom's side turns 95 this Saturday. We're having a big bash.

my grandparents were nan and pop- with their surnames

my sons grandparents:

my dad got "pa" coz my nephew called him that, and every one else since has as well

the rest are nanny or poppy with their names to follow- so we know which one is being talked about

prb said:

That is so cool....my dad used to get mad when me and my sisters called him that...but when all of our friends in the neighborhood took to calling him that as well (because he was so cool everyone loved hanging out by our house) he warmed to it...now he's got a bunch of 40-somethings still calling him Pa...

kpowers said:

Oh, I like that! Guess you could say my grandparents are my guardian angels as well, since all four of them are gone now. RIP, they are in a better place now.
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rasplicious said:

she is and once u talk with her you'd her

My grandmother died 3 years ago and I still miss her every single day , she was just awesome , funny , clever and so strong

Anyway I called her granny gorgeous !!!