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anagramofbrat ([personal profile] anagramofbrat) wrote2009-08-11 11:06 am
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Am I boring for just calling mine "Grandma?"

So while I was at the reunion last Saturday I was thinking about how a lot of people have interesting names for their grandparents, as one of my aunt's grandkids call her "Honeybunch." (Actually, almost everyone does, I think our family's kind of the exception for calling her Aunt Doreen.) She's not an anomoly - before Mom passed, my nieces and nephews called her Mema (Little Roy couldn't pronounce "G-ma"), my aunt's grandkids call my aunt "Noonie" and my Mom's grandmother was known as "Nonnie" to the whole family. (My own grandmother on that side was just "Grandma Ruth.")

I don't think we were as creative with the grandfathers. The aforementioned nieces and nephews call Dad "Granddad." My own were dead long before I showed up.

What did/do y'all call your grandparents?

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[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2009-08-12 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Gram on Mom's side, Gramma on Dad's.

Grandpa Ken on Dad's side, and Daddy on Mom's side because he died when Mom was four and she only ever referred to him as Daddy.