What do you get a 90 year old grandmother for Christmas?

[DFW]

We got her something she definitely didn't expect.

We got her a coffee mug saying "your are hereby promoted from Grandmother to Great Grandmother."

I think we added about fifteen years onto her will to live. It was a joy to behold.

Our younger daughter had informed us a month ago that she was pregnant, but to save the surprise for her grandmother for Christmas. "Surprise" was a gross understatement!

[hlthe2b]

1. that is SOO nice.

[Kilgore]

2. Very nice

We have been struggling with how to get my 85 year old mom timely photos of the kids and great grandkids. Ended up getting her a wifi picture frame. Now everyone can send her photos directly and they just get added to the rotation.

We put the word out a week ago to start sending them. When she turned it in, over 300 photos were waiting.

I think this is one of the best gifts we ever got her.

[redwitch]

3. What a cool gift!

I didn’t know such a thing existed, I think I would like to get one for everyone I know!

[Kilgore]

8. Here is the one we bought

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MTWDG6W/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_taa_PvqqAbNNVDJGR

Has totally exceeded our expectations. We have found the smartphone app is the easiest way to send it pictures and video.

Heads up, it does require a WiFi connection to work.

[redwitch]

9. With so many family members living apart it is perfect!

A great way to share everything!

[Ohiya]

4. Good Job!

Keep up the good work!

[northoftheborder]

5. Love it!!!

[duforsure]

6. Great gift idea!

[syringis]

7. Great idea

Nice gift and a great joy

Félicitations à ta fille, que tout se passe bien. Félicitations aussi aux futurs grands-parents qui, je suis sûre, sont fous de joie et très impatients

[DFW]

14. Nous sommes bien patients!

Ça sera la panique après!

Notre fille est bien précise en tout ce qu'elle fait. Nous sommes sûrs qu'elle aura tout bien organisé pour le grand evénenment--mieux que nous, je parie!

[malthaussen]

10. Well, I got my 90 year old mother jigsaw puzzles...

... she liked jigsaw puzzles.

-- Mal

[SwissTony]

11. And congratulations to you and your wife...

You'll be Grampa and Grandma (in English and/or German and/or...).

Grandkids are great. You can spoil them rotten all day...and then give them back!!

But that's great news.

[NNadir]

12. Congrats!! My grandmother and one of my aunts had two greats, but I doubt I'll make it to "grand."

I was an older father, a good thing actually because the young man I was would have been a terrible father.

I don't think I did too bad as an older father.

I'm extremely proud of both my sons, but they're both undergraduates in intense programs and parenting for them is a long way off, I think, I hope.

I'll be dead when my sons have children - if they have children.

But congratulations to you, your grandmother, and your daughter and her family.

I flew with my grandmother out to California in the 1970's when she was in her late eighties for a "5 generation" picture. It was quite an experience.

[DFW]

16. Everyone has to follow their own path, nothing wrong with yours

It sounds like you did the right thing in your case.

We all congregated in New York for my grandfather's 100th birthday 23 years ago. That was the last time we can really say we had a tumultuous family event. This one will certainly be another.

I think you're right not to hope to be a grandparent too soon. We always told our girls we were in no rush, and they should feel no pressure. The haven't, and we haven't even hinted to the older one (she's 34) that we hope she follows in her sister's footsteps, mainly because her own happiness is our biggest concern. Having children for ANY other reason than that she wants them is the wrong reason.

I don't see us in a 5 generation photo--THAT is an accomplishment. A few generations must have gotten started early!

[NNadir]

19. Yes, all five started early, with a little bit of - ahem! - scandal involved.

My mother - who did not live to see "grand" - used to make some slightly snide remarks about it because she didn't necessarily get along with all of her in laws all the time, but nevertheless her love came through anyway most times. But she did remark on five generations of shotguns. My aunt, the second generation in the five generation picture was nonetheless happily married for more than 60 years when she died; the "shotgun" marriage was a beautiful, long, and successful one.

My father got that "grand" thing and "great grand" thing out of his system by marrying his second wife after my mother died. So I'm happy about that since my stepmother, now in her nineties and a great great grandmother on her own, is such a beautiful woman.

My father also did not live to see my sons but he's very much in their lives through all the hilarious stories about the "piece of work" my father was.

You are absolutely right that the only reason to have children is to want them. My wife and I took nine years of our marriage to decide if we did, and when we did, it was totally our choice, which is how we came to be so happy with our family.

Your older daughter will have the privilege of being an aunt, as is the case with my sister-in-law, who is in her 40's having never married or had children. She's my boys favorite aunt.

Congrats again to your whole family.

[DFW]

22. I'd need a chart to remember all that.

Actually my daughters adore their American aunt (my sister), and I'm sure this will be no different. My elder daughter is very happy living in the States (NYC) and the younger one is probably going to stay for a while in the Frankfurt area, since she and her man both have sky-high paying jobs and their firm has fabulous health care benefits, even by German standards.

This was on my mom-in-law's 90th birthday. My two girls are on the outside and their cousin (my wife's brother's daughter) is in the middle.

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[calimary]

13. Awwww...

Best Christmas gift imaginable!

[2naSalit]

15. My mom received a

similar gift a couple years ago, she's still up around the ceiling fan and nobody is willing to peel her off the ceiling yet.

[DFW]

17. My wife's mom can't jump that high

Or else, we would have been facing a similar situation.

[2naSalit]

18. Physically

Mine can't either but her spirits are so high since then that she seems to have lost some of her aging blues.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. What a wonderful gift, my dear DFW!

So simple, and so full of joy and blessings!

[Croney]

21. Wonderful gift!

My mother at 94 is great-great-grandmother of eight, and it’s not mathematically impossible for her to add another great, if she lives to 105 and somebody has a baby at 17. The latter is not being encouraged of course.

[elleng]

23. Congrats, and a great gift!

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Congratulations !!

Hope this is the first of many many happy moments for you and your family in the New Year. .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. That has got to be the very best way ever to let someone

know she's about to become a great grandmother.

Congrats to you and everyone involved.

[Sophia4]

26. There is nothing, nothing, nothing more wonderful than being a

GRANDMOTHER.

[irisblue]

27. Congratulations!

What does your daughter do for work?

[R B Garr]

28. Congrats all the way around for your entire family, DFW!

The coffee mug message was perfect.