Emma Wroids
Number of posts: 77
Registration date: 2007-03-27
 |  Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She?  Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:52 pm | |
| | megra wrote: | Oh, Emma, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! I sympathise. Nobody has ever noticed when I have gone "missing" from a forum either!
I suspect (not having had any experience of it, you understand) that becoming a grandma is an awful lot easier than becoming a mother. The whole pain element is missing for one thing. You must be excited and I look forward to the happy announcement but sincerely hope that you will "green" these pages a lot in the meantime. |
I have two daughters, 39 and 35 yrs and throughout their teens and into their twenties I joked with them about DEFINITELY NOT making a Granny of me ! By the time they were in their 30's I began to think that they had taken me seriously. The younger daughter has been engaged for 12 years, for goodness sake  but finally managed to tie the knot in May of this year.
Imagine my amazement when, a couple of months ago - and within a few weeks of each other - both daughters announced their forthcoming happy event. I was sworn to secrecy until the prescribed scans, blood tests etc. were carried out and results safely in, but the ban is now lifted.
Neither of my girls wishes to know what sex their child is (despite my offering the nurse a hefty bribe to whisper it to me during my elder girl's scan) so, as the saying goes, I'll "just have to wait and see". The first is due in February, the other in April. Coincidentally, each girl is due around the date of her sister's birthday 
Thanks for your good wishes megra, and Michael 
P.S. Can anyone think of an alternative to being called Gran, Grandma, Granny or Nana  |
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Zob
Number of posts: 354
Age: 60
Localisation: South London
Registration date: 2007-03-14
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megra
Number of posts: 1765
Localisation: Chez Thingy
Registration date: 2007-03-15
| | Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She? Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:43 pm | |
| Emma, sounds like oma but nicer.
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Mogsmum
Number of posts: 902
Registration date: 2007-03-15
| | Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She? Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:05 pm | |
| Congratulations .. and .. Congratulations. You could go all 21st century and get them to call you by your forename (21st century PCness, prevents me from saying 'Christian' name), although 'Grandmama' offers the balance of familiarity and respectfullness you'll be looking for ... in a Victorian kinda way! Oh, to hell with it - what's wrong with just plain ' Ma'am'!  |
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Michael
Number of posts: 2165
Age: 62
Localisation: Durham
Registration date: 2007-03-15
| | Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She? Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:00 am | |
| In Modern Greek, the word is yahyah. It's affectionate there, but not too good in the vernacular here. It sounds like that baying mob at PM's question time. Or, in adolescent English, usually followed by "Whaddever!"  My (Polish) uncle used the word babushka. Any good?  Just remembered: I think in India they use the word amma(h). As in Amma Wroids?  |
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Zob
Number of posts: 354
Age: 60
Localisation: South London
Registration date: 2007-03-14
| | Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She? Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:44 am | |
| Yahyah (yaya) is also an American slang name for cocaine, as used in the film 'Scarface.' 
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Michael
Number of posts: 2165
Age: 62
Localisation: Durham
Registration date: 2007-03-15
| | Subject: Re: Matronly Care - Where Is She? Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:07 am | |
| Modern Greek word for paper hankies: Kleenex. Just thought you might like to know.  Note to self: never refer to grandmothers as 'cocaine'. (Though they can be equally stupefying.)  |
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