What Do You Call Your Grandparents?

[carnation]

I thought I'd made a thread like this before! Several GCers know that I called my grandfather "Bimbo" and they think it's funny. One of my pledge sisters called her grandparents Per and Ganh. One local family calls their grandmas Red Granny and Blue Granny.

What do you call your grandparents?

I am GrandRose and my husband is Grand___ (his first name).

[BlueOwl]

I loved my "Grammie" and "Pop-Pop"!!!!

[Scully]

My mother's parents were always Grandma and Grandpa. But my cousins and I call my father's mother, Yeya.

My father and my uncles referred to their mother as "la vieja." It wasn't mean-spirited; it was always out of love! And when I was a little girl I couldn't pronounce it, so Yeya just stuck.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

my grandparents were grand(mother)(father)___ name except for my mother's mother who refused to be called grandmother so we called her Nonie which was a diminutive of her name Leona. Came to be told later that that was a variation of grandmother in Italian.

My mother is Obbie to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren (and SILs) , that being what the oldest grandchild came up with. :=)

[Splash]

Mom's side: Grandma and Grandpa
Dad's side: Grandma and Pop-pop

[AlphaFrog]

Mine were grandma and grandpa.

My kids call husband's parents Abuelo and Abuela. My dad is Papa, my husband is Papí, and my mom is Bama (my daughter started that before she could say "grandma" and it stuck).

[amanda6035]

Mawmaw and Pawpaw

yeah, so what!

[DaffyKD]

Although I never met my father's parents they were referred to as Bubbie and Zadeh. My mother's mom was Nonnie. No name for my mother's father.

My kids call my parents Gramma and Papa while they call my ex FIL and his wife Honey and Honeybear. They call my ex's mother Grandma _____(her name) although she died before either of them were born.

DaffyKD

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Mawmaw and Pawpaw

yeah, so what!

AWWW YAY!

Maternal Grandmother: MAH-Maw
Her late husband: Paw-Paw

Late Maternal Grandfather: Granddad
His late wife: OMG I can't remember.... did we just call her by her first name?

My grandmother's step-mother was called GiGi, I supposed for Great Grandmother.

I was not raised by my father or any of his family, so I just call(ed) them by the first names when I referred to them.

[PrettyBoy]

My mom's side of the family:
Grandmother: Big Mama
Grandfather: Big Daddy

My Dad's side of the family:
Grandmother: Grandmommy
Grandfather: Paw Paw

[agzg]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

My grandmother's step-mother was called GiGi, I supposed for Great Grandmother.

We called my parternal Great Grandmother GiGi for just that reason.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Mine were grandma and grandpa.

My kids call husband's parents Abuelo and Abuela. My dad is Papa, my husband is Papí, and my mom is Bama (my daughter started that before she could say "grandma" and it stuck).

LOL! Our puluna (Hawaiian word for grandparents of the same children, she's our son-in-law's mom) wants her grandsons to call her Bama because she's a Bama fan but they don't call her anything yet. She thought that they should call me Abuela but they had other ideas.

One thing we've learned from many grandparents: if you have a name you really do or don't want the kids to call you, set the groundwork early. Since I didn't, I'm lucky that they started with GrandRose because I've heard some weird grandparent names.

[flirt5721]

I use the Spanish terms of Abuela and Abuelo or Abuelita or 'uelo

[lovespink88]

Maternal grandparents were Grandma & Grandpa.

Paternal grandfather was Papa and maternal grandmother is Mimi. (She did not want us calling them Abuelo y Abuela cause she thought it made her sound old )

I hope that if/when I have grandchildren I can be Abuela/Abuelita.

[thetaj]

My dad's parents were Granddaddy and Nona and my mom's mother was Granny. My mom's father passed before he had any grandchildren, so we just refer to him by his first name or Mr. LastName.