"Grandmother" is so 2000 and late

No one wants to be Grandmom. Ok, that's not true. nearly every mom of a twenty or thirty-something kid out there is probably daydreaming about the day their babies have babies and they get to spoil them rotten...and return to sender once screaming begins...and laugh devilishly now that the shoe is on the other foot.

What I mean to say is, it seems no one wants to be called "Grandmom" anymore. Nonna & Bubbie are exceptions here, they're cultural. But it would be weird for my German-Irish mother to receive "te amo mi Nonna" mugs for Christmas.

She still suggested it though. She also suggested Gia and Bigmomma.



I also know an Oma, CoCo and Bubble. Has the classic "Grandmom" gone the way of the velocoraptor and McRib sandwich?

I had a "Grandmom" and a "MomMom". Spencer had a "Grandmom" and a "Grandmother", which my mother-in-law Sally has already claimed as her own (she is straight up old school like that, yo.) I told my mom this and now she's more settled on "Granni" - yes, with an "i".

Honestly I don't care what she wants to go by, just as long as I don't feel like an idiot saying it over and over again in public. Which is why "MeeMaw" is totally out of the question. (No offense to any Mee-Maw lovers out there...haha)I figure she has a while to test drive a few names out before this Little Monster starts writing love-poems to favorite family members.

She will most likely be the best Grandparent a kid has ever had, no matter what she's called, so I'm not worried.

Just no Mee-Maw.