This lovely cartoon is by Pamela
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I have recently become a grandmother for the first time and
will soon be a grandmother for the second time – did my sons and
wives get together and plan this? I did have a few
words about the lack of grandchildren, but that was AGES ago!! So
now, I have an adorable granddaughter and am waiting very excitedly
to see what the next baby will be. I have been more
interested in the names that are to be given to my grandchildren,
but it seems that everyone wants to know what name I am to known by
and, to be honest I haven’t got a clue. My granddaughter already
has a Grandma and I’m told that two grandmas would be confusing for
the child, unless of course we are known as Grandma A and Grandma B
which does sound silly and why use grandma again when there are so
many other names I could have. Grandmother Grannie Gran Nan Nannie
G-ma And a few foreign
ones too
- NaiNai
- Lola
- Bomma
- Grandmere
- Meme
- Oma
- YaYa
- Tutu
- Savta
- Nonna
- Oba-chan
- Halmoni
- Busia
- VoVo
- Babushka
- Abuela
- Bube
There are some great names there, but I still haven’t chosen mine.
I thought there was no urgency as it will be a while before
either of the babies calls me anything, the parents however, demand
a name! So if any kind person would like to help me with
this, I really would be very grateful
40again's Blog 
What you need is help from Noway where relatives are called by ref to which side of the family they are on so as these seem to be your sons children then you are farmor (fathers mother) simple huh
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That is so simple, never heard of it before
Thanks Linda x
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Hi Dee,
I totally relate to what you say here, I was the same with my parents and parents in law when my daughter was on the way! Ultimately, we went with the names I grew up with. So, for me, my Dads Mum was always a Grandma so he and my step-mum are now Grandma and Grandad and my Mums Mum was a Grannie and then we have a Nanna on my husbands side of the family.
Think it’s very important to have different names for each side of the family.
We then had the problem of a third generation on that side of the family…so settled on Granna (Great Nanna) which has worked a treat as it was one of the first words my daughter picked up much to the delight of Great Nanna! 🙂
All the best,
Jess
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