How to be a Great-Grandmother … or a Great Grandmother
Do you see the difference in the two designations in the title of this blog? Great-grandmother is a single noun indicating the mother of your grandmother. That’s me. Great Grandmother is an adjective and a noun indicating a really wonderful grandmother. According to my grandchildren, that’s me, too! But let’s begin at the beginning. In the beginning, I was an 18-year-old wife to an 18-year-old husband. My kids laugh at how often I explain decisions and actions in those early years by saying, “We were young and didn’t know what we were doing.” Then I was a 25-year-old mother of three children and my standard explanation became, “We were young, and we REALLY didn’t know what we were doing. When grandchildren arrived, I no longer cared if I knew what I was doing. I just had to find a grandmother name, then love and play with the kids. Some have said the child determines what you will be called, but it seemed inconvenient to wait until Sydnie could talk to find my name, althoug...
