<p>My grandmother was “Mimi” because she heard that was what Mamie Eisenhower’s grandchildren called her. All grandfathers in my family have been called “Papa”, grandmothers vary (Mimi, Gran, Nanny, Grammom).</p>
<p>Here in Texas, many grandparents are Mamaw (pronounced Mam-ah) and Papaw (pap-ah) or Meemaw and Peepaw. Frankly I think Peepaw sounds like a dog with an incontinence issue, but whatever.
My Scandinavian BIL tells us that the tradition in Norway is that your mother’s mother is your Mor-mor, her father is your Mor-far. Your father’s mother is your Far-mor and is father is your Far-far (or maybe spelled Phar-Phar?). Nice, orderly system.
My grandmother didn’t want to be the “great grandma” so she had the kids call her GG (Gigi).</p>
<p>i had mommom (last name) and poppop (last name). My children call my parents mommom (first name) and poppop (first name). My brother’s children call my mother “grandma bathingsuit”…lol because when my neice was younger she wore her bathing suit all the time and my mother used to by her new ones. she calls her other grandmother “grandma sugar” because she gives out the candy…lol</p>
<p>my sister-in-law called her grandparents “grams” and “grape”</p>
<p>I could go for “Gran.”</p>
<p>I always called my grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. When we moved to the south, we heard “mamaw” and “papaw” for the first time and my parents were appalled and never wanted to be called that. My kids address them as Grandma and Grandpa but called my late in-laws Mamaw and Papaw.</p>
<p>One set of cousins and my siblings and I always called our grandmother “Grandmama” but my other set of cousins called her “Grand Honey”…maybe because she called us all Honey.</p>