New Granny

My daughter and I were looking through an old photo album of mine. We found a couple of pictures from when I was carrying her.
We found some of her as a newborn too.
The saddest theing was there were none of my two sons.
We had bought a digital camera and taken thousands of pictures of the [...]

In honour of National Grandparent’s Day, the U.S. Census Bureau offers these interesting statistics about grandparents. Grandparent’s Day is September 13 This Year.

General Statistics about Grandparents
·         How many grandparents reside in the United States? About 56 million
·         How many grandparents are married? 1.7 million

Grandparents as Caregivers (and Heroes)
·         How many grandparents have [...]

What a brilliant idea!  Chris Towland has a book ‘Baby Sleep Solutions” which gives you proven methods to get baby to sleep. The best thing is the book also comes in audio format because most new parents, especially sleep deprived new parents, don’t have time or energy to sit and read a book.
The methods have been tested [...]

On the weekend the families got together to celebrate Mother’s Day. The question came up- What do you want to be called, Gran, Granny? It was interesting because we are all very polite and nice. No one wanted to offend but the other Mum had been hoping to be Grandma and was worried I’d be [...]

I don’t want to appear as if I know everything and I don’t want my children to think I expect my new grandchild to be raised my way. I would like my children to come to me for advice and I’d hope to give them the best advice for their situation but…
it could come across as controlling [...]