So what did you call your Grandparents.

[texas1928]

All this talk of grandmothers and Easter got me to thinking. I just called my grandparents grandma and grandpa. My neices called my parents Ma and Pa.

What was your term of endearment for your grandparents.

[progmom]

1. I have...

Grandma & Grandpa
and
Oma & Opa

[NoSheep]

2. grahma. grindeddy. I'm from NC ;)

[Left Is Write]

3. Gramma and Grampa.

[Lavender Brown]

4. My grandmothers were Nonnas

Unfortunately both of my grandfathers died before I was born.

[MuseRider]

5. My great grandparents

were MoMo and BoPo. My grandparents were just grandmother and grandad. My kids called my mother MaMo.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Good morning, MuseRider!

I've recently noticed your posts, and I just wanted to tell you that I just LOVE your beautiful horn! Does it have some particular meaning for you? It's gorgeous...

[MuseRider]

21. Good afternoon (Kansas time)!

Hi CaliforniaPeggy. That is a clarinet and I am a clarinetist. I found it once upon a time and copied it. I was recently learning to do some basic things on my computer (I am SUCH a non geek) and I found it so here it is.

I am glad you like it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Thanks for letting me know!

So you're a clarinetist! Good for you...I really have so much respect for anyone who can play a musical instrument. I'm basically non-dextrous, so anything manual takes me FOREVER to learn. Once I've gotten there, I'm OK, but it does take a long time, with a very steep learning curve...

Your image charms me every time I see it! Thank you once again!

[texas1928]

6. Oh and I called my one great grandmother... Granny

[Hand]

7. Obachan and Ojichan...

They were Japanese immigrants, and that's an affctionate term like "grandma" and "grandpa".

[yvr girl]

8. Grandma and Granddad

My great-grandparents were Nana & Pop.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I had very ordinary names for all my grandparents:

Grandmother and Grandfather for my mom's parents; and Gramma and Grampa for my dad's parents. My husband had the more exotic names for his mom's parents: Mumsie for his grandmother, and Dockety for his grandfather. (Dockety was an opthalmologist.)
I forgot, my great-grandmother on my dad's side was Mamere (a bastardization of ma mere, or my mother). Her husband who I never knew was of course "papere." They were French Canadian, I believe...

[meganmonkey]

10. Nana and Pop-pop

May Nana rest in peace.

I will be seeing Pop-pop (now 94 years young!) in a couple of weeks.

He calls me Tinkerbell

[cmf]

11. Mawmaw and Pawpaw

Pretty standard for people from southern Louisiana.

[Debbi801]

13. Grandma & Grandpa on one side and Bubbe and Zayde on the other.

[RubyDuby in GA]

14. My grandmother is Mee-Maw

Never knew my maternal grandfather and both grandparents on my father's side died when I was very young.

[texas1928]

17. I am sorry you never got to know them.

every child should be able to get to know their grandparents. I learned so much from all of them.

[RubyDuby in GA]

18. Thanks. My surviving grandmother is 86

and she is a hoot.
Not many people can say they've been mooned by their grandmother......

[texas1928]

22. She is southern right?

All southern grandparents are a hoot.

[RubyDuby in GA]

33. Actually, she was born and raised in Missouri, but

lived on both coasts for a while, Pennsylvania and California. She moved here with my parents 25 years ago. I think that's long enough to claim her as southern.

[AlCzervik]

15. Nana and Grampa, although my Grampa used to howl with laughter

when i called him by his name----Irving.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Grandma and Grandpa with their first names...my kids use Nonny,Poppy,

and then Grandma (said in a somber voice) for my mother in law.

My brother always called them Munga and Pokka...because he couldn't say the names when he was small.

[seemunkee]

19. Grandpa and Big Mama

Lived next door to them until I was 7.

[datasuspect]

20. Mr. and Mrs. Moneybags

they always hated my uncle skeleton.

[Igel]

23. Only met my mother's grandmother once,

and that's when I was going door-to-door selling something as part of a fundraiser. I didn't know she was my grandmother at the time, and she didn't recognize me. She lived next to an aunt we used to visit; after the fundraising incident, we stopped visiting that aunt until after she moved to a different part of town--she'd visit us, instead. (My ma's dad died in a work accident long ago.)

My father was an "orphan" until both his parents were dead and buried, then one day while we were doing errands he pointed out the house they lived in, just a few miles from ours. Five of my father's 6 siblings lived within 3 miles of us, and we never visited them. When I was 21 I found out I had a half-sister living 2 miles or so away.

[eyesroll]

24. Nana and Papa were my maternal grandparents;

Grammy and Grampy, on my dad's side, are still living.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Nothing. The only one whose lifetime overlapped mine...

...died when I was 7. He lived in Spain, I in Brazil. And we didn't have a phone.

[BigMcLargehuge]

26. Vavao and Vavoo my dads parents and Memere' and Pepere' my moms

thought I never met my Vavoo, he died before my parents met.

My son calls his Memere' and Vavoo (my folks) and Grandma and Grandpa (Mrs. McLargehuge's parents)

[JohnKleeb]

27. Well ya see

Mom's Dad- has always been grandpa to me
Mom's Mom- for a little while as a little kid I called her baba, now I call her grandma
Dad's Mom- called nana
Dad's Dad- I never met him but he is always refered to as big dad.

[rene moon]

29. Nana and Tata

My Mom's parents. They were the only "real" grandparents we had---and I miss them

[VelmaD]

30. Well, here goes...

My mom's dad died when she was in high school so I never got to meet him...he sounded neat though.

My paternal grandfather was always papaw.

My maternal grandmother is Granny Grace. I like aliteration.

My paternal grandmother is meemaw and her 2nd husband was Grampa.

Both of my grandmothers are still alive. Collectively they are my nannas.

[luvLLB]

31. Big Mama and Dazoo on one side and Pepaw and Mama Neal

on the other... for myself, they just call me Grandma P.

[Bouncy Ball]

32. I had a

Mimi and Papaw on one side and a Mamaw and Papaw on the other side. My great-grandfather, who died when I was 15, was Granddaddy.

I loved them so. They are all gone.

[lavenderdiva]

34. we called both sets of grandparents

Mammaw and Pappaw.. they were distinguished by their last names when we were trying to individually reference them. eg. Mammaw Smith, Pappaw Jones, etc. Typical southern pet-names... I had a lot of friends in Louisiana who referred to their grandmother as Mimi.

[_TJ_]

35. Nanna and er...

...nothing cos I never knew my grandfathers

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. Not much.

I'm the baby in a much older family. My brother is 12 years older than me. I was from the youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son-- that kind of situation. So all my grandmas and grandpas were much older than me.

Lost both my grandpas before I was born. 1 in 1949 and the other in 1960.

My grandmas were Grandma Smith and Grandma Rennscheidt. Grandma Smith died when I was 6, and Grandma Rennscheidt died when I was 27, so she was the only real granny I knew.

Great grandparents all died years and years ago.

I think I've dived into my genealogy so heavily so I can feel closer to all of them.

FSC

[u4ic]

39. Only knew one Baba

Same situation here. Three of my grandparents had died before I was born.

My maternal grandparents died the same year I was born, 1966...they were 83 and 88. My paternal grandfather (Dido = deedo) died, at age 36, in 1936.

The one Baba I did know died in 1994, aged 88.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

37. dimma and dadusha

and nana and dida

[TheCentepedeShoes]

38. Grandma and Grandpa

on both sides. Though mom wanted me to call her stepmother "Jane" instead of grandma. And wanted me to call her father "Daddy Joe" like she did. "Daddy Joe" was a little too Tennessee Williamish for me. Just stuck with grandma and grandpa. She never referred to my father's parents as anything but "Mr and Mrs Jones."

[CO Liberal]

40. Same Here

My kids called my folks "Pop" and "Grandma". Their maternal grandfather died before they were born, but they called their maternal grandmother "Gigi" - which supposedly stood for "glamorous gransmother...."

[last_texas_dem]

41. I've got some interesting ones

I have a Mema (or Me-maw) and Pawpaw on one side, have a Papaw (Pap-aw) and had a Nanny on the other. My great-grandma was Mamaw.

I've threatened my dad before, when he's getting on my nerves, that if I ever have kids I will have them call him Boom-pa, based on an old Jimmy Stewart movie (think it's Mr. Hobbs Goes on Vacation) that cracked me up.

[texas1928]

43. I threatened my dad with

teaching my kids to call him grumps.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

44. Both sets of mine were just plain ole Grandma and Grandpa.

BTW, you are correct. Boom-pa came from Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation starring Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O'Hara.

One of my favorite movies. I wonder if its available on DVD?

[ikojo]

42. Ancestors....

My maternal grandma has been dead since March 1985 and my maternal grandpa has been dead since 1997.

I never knew my paternal grandpa since he died before I was born.
My paternal grandma died in 1979.

[China_cat]

45. Ninny and Grandpa

My husband's grandparents were Pake and Beppe...as were his parents after they got old enough to have grandkids.