Great-Grandma Rita is back in action!
3 weeks ago this morning, I sat for hours in the “family room” of my local hospital, waiting for the silent footsteps of my Mom’s surgeon… to tell me the news of my Mom’s surgery. It had been an emotional early morning (albeit entertaining afternoon). I tried to read. I studied the pattern of the [...]
Grandma and a Bit of Bling!
August 13, 2011 by Sharon
Filed under Grandchildren, Grandparenting, Sharon
Yesterday, I had a hair appointment. You know the kind… a few days overdue and get me in that chair one! I suppose I’m a little boring with my hair. I pretty much stick with the same cut and color. Maybe I venture out once-in-awhile and take another inch or so off… But. Yesterday, when [...]
The Im-perfect Bathing Suit
We’re having a heat wave, A tropical heat wave, The temperature’s rising… Ah, the truth of the lyrics of Irving Berlin’s Heat Wave. Until the last lines… It isn’t surprising, She certainly can can-can. Can-can? This body can hardly walk two feet without sweating buckets. And this leads me to my Im-perfect Bathing Suit. The [...]
2 Weddings from a Grandma’s Perspective
June 15, 2011 by Sharon
Filed under Grandchildren, Sharon
Ten years ago this month, on June 30, 2001, my daughter Audrey married the man of her dreams, Matthew. Ten years ago, Barry and I had 2 grandchildren… 2 beautiful little girl cousins… Taylor and Maddie. For her wedding celebration, Audrey had 2 little dresses designed for Taylor and Maddie… 2 little white and butter-colored [...]
Mother Nature stops this Grandma in her tracks…
Yesterday, I rolled my tuned-up Cannondale out of my shed. I put on my bike helmet and gloves. The day was sunny and beautifully June warm… albeit very, very windy. Jane was at my house at the time and came outside to wish me luck on my first ride of the season. But then I [...]
This Grandma knows Nasty, and a “crinigerous hallux” is right up there…
May 31, 2011 by Sharon
Filed under JUNE BUGS!, Sharon
This Grandma not only knows NASTY. This Grandma loves NASTY. There. I said it. I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t surrounded with boys… 2 brothers, one a teeny bit older and one a teeny bit younger. My brothers’ friends were my friends. And boys, my friends, love nasty. I played [...]
GRamma vs. GLamma… or a rose is a rose is a rose
May 28, 2011 by Sharon
Filed under Grandparenting, Sharon
A Today Show segment caught my eye a couple of days ago. It was about Boomer grandmothers who are rejecting the moniker Grandma and all its traditional forms… favoring names such as Glamma (the combination of Grandma and Glamorous), made-up names, ethnic/cultural monikers and even first names. It seems, to some, that Grandma and Nana [...]
Bushels of Apples in the back of an old pick-up truck…
October 22, 2010 by Sharon
Filed under Grandchildren, Sharon
I love Fall. I used to not love Fall so much. When I was young, I dreaded the darker days and the structure of heading back to school. Or maybe I just loved Summer so much that Fall was always like the day after Christmas to me… Fall meant cold toes and frosty fingers while [...]
Lovely Rita
My Mom is not a tea-totaler. But she doesn’t actually drink, either. She’ll have a glass of wine maybe once or twice a year, or so… but that’s about it. So the fact that she got smashed (for lack of a better word) on the day Audrey was born is legendary family stuff. This past [...]
My Beautiful Granddaughter Maddie Is Nine
My beautiful Maddie turns 9 today… and I wrap my heart around all the wonder and beauty and kindness and creativity she brings to our lives and to our planet. It is no coincidence that Maddie came to us in the Spring, the time of earth’s colors and scents and amazing renewal. This is for [...]
