Welcome!

I'm Gran'mare and those two fabulous faces above are my grand-daughters.."The Girls"...Beanz & Bou and these pages are all about our days together. You see, I am privileged enough to spend more time than the average G'mom with "The Girls" (2 in '08).

We have a funtabulous time together and hope you enjoy visiting us. Hopefully along the way you'll laugh a little, cry a little and learn a few things from a well seasoned G'mom & mother of 3.

I had hoped to start this shortly after their arrival mostly as a journal for myself but............
I will backtrack (as memory allows) to the beginning when Aunt Tissa & I hovered over Mama Baby and together we heard their heartbeats for the very first time...talk about slap happy!


Chicken Dance #1

Chicken Dance #2

Thursday, August 7

A Heartbreaking Goodbye

With a profound sadness and a heavy, heavy heart, we had to say good bye to our beloved ol' beagle Snoop...Snoopy..a.k.a. noodle (I've no idea why...he was just..."my noodle") and sometimes I called him porkchop...Portly Porkchop.

He entered our lives when he was 5 years old and we enjoyed his company for the past 7 years. He was strong, healthy & quite content except for a bladder problem the past few months (which bothered me a lot more than it bothered him). He suffered what appeared to be a very sudden blood clot and was in some pain for a bit before rapidly loosing all feeling & mobility in his hind quarters. There was nothing more that could be done ( we tried against the odds with some injections). My husband & I sat with him, I held him in my lap & we fed him a bagful of k-bits. It was gut wrenching. I wish he had lost his senses but he knew us. We kissed him as he drifted off to sleep. We let him keep his dignity. He took a piece of our hearts.





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..............Love'ya Noodle....................
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Thursday, July 10

What's in Your Pillows?

Time to buy diapers.

No, not for "The Girls"

For me.

Now that they're two.....

Things happen

When I pee.




They were laying down for their nap.

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.

I couldn't wait any longer.

They're laying so still.
I'll just be a minute....

There was a tiny tear in the pillow.


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Wishing for Wings

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Soap Opera

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Always, Always! look in the mirror before leaving the house

Mama leaned over & hugged Beans before leaving for work.

My camera was on the table.

I took these pics right after the hug.

Mama should have used some static guard.

If I wasn't there......

I wouldn't have believed it.




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Wednesday, July 9

Crying Over Spilt Milk

The cup's broke
The furniture's soaked
And to cross the floor
I needed a boat

What the ferhekkon!?!
You want to know
O.k. then
I'll tell you so

"The Girls" each fed their baby
as quiet as could be
So Gran'mare stole a moment
To sit down & pee



Saturday, June 28

It's never too late

Concerned about fitness in my middle 40s, I enrolled in an aerobics class.
To my dismay I walked into a room filled with much younger women and decided
to combat my nervousness with humor.

'I'm here to do my postnatal exercises.'

The instructor gave me an appraising look. 'How old is your baby?'

'Twenty-six, ' I replied."

Friday, June 27


....and I thought Gran'mare had a big heiny......

Thursday, May 29

"The Girls" get a New Kitchen!

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The back of my family room belongs to "The Girls".
On one side is their kitchen (as yet unfinished)
On the other side I am working on another mural which I'll post later





Please ignore the cat..he looks like something the cat dragged in!
A direct result of "can't leave well enough alone"










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I bought "food" from the craft store..much more realistic

Tuesday, May 27

Looks good enough to eat!

After seeing the incredibly high priced play food online, I decided to make my own.



Beans & Boo love their noodles
Felt strips come already in super long strips for around $1.50
They are for making no-sew quilts.
I just snip to size. One pkg. makes a lot of noodles.
Next I'm getting brown for wheat noodles.



Ham & eggs..Ham & eggs............

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Finally!..a no calorie cake



We sing Happy Birthday a lot




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