<p>^^Snowball, you could promote your own ma to Alte-Bubbe and take on Bubbe for yourself, if you like that idea and she agrees. It’s like creating the new “great-grandma” to make room for a new “grandma” in the family. And I agree, Zayde’s are cool cats. </p>
<p>We have a set of Alte-Bubbe, Alte-Zayde, and if my instincts are right on one of my nephews, they might be reach “Alta-Alta” level pretty soon.</p>
<p>Egads, more rugrats? I hope not, at least till I’m cold and in the ground. Let the wife deal with em. I guess they are ok, cause you can always return to the original owner. ;)</p>
<p>Our kids call both their sets Grandma & Grandpa. My brother’s kid’s call my dad Poppop, no clue why.</p>
<p>I assume wife wants to be called Grandma, but I guess it’s only after she’s officially been annointed. I tried calling her that once and still have the scars.</p>
<p>If I live long enough, I will encourage them to call me oldgeezer or oldfart. Either one works. No granpa nametag for me. Never been one for the conventional.</p>
<p>I don’t care what they call me, as long as it is said with love, and I’m around to hear it.</p>
<p>If it happens…I don’t mind Grammy or Gram and DH will be Pappy. PA dutch heritage there have always been Pappy’s on DH side of the family.</p>
<p>My dad’s grandkids call him PopPop. His great grandkids call him PopPopPop.</p>
<p>Likely whatever the oldest grandchild spits out. My dad is Beedaw to my kids, my mom is meenah and step-father is pawpaw. My great grandfather was doo dah, courtesy of the oldest great grand-child, moi!</p>
<p>I only hope I’m lucky enough to be called Grandma someday! I have a feeling it’ll be quite a while, if ever.</p>
<p>My son has always used the Grandma [first name] and Grandpa [first name] form for his grandparents (including the ones who aren’t alive anymore).</p>
<p>When I was a child, my father’s parents were Grandma and Grandpa; my mother’s were Mutti and Papa, which is what she called them (she grew up in Germany).</p>
<p>We called my grandparents “grandma last name” and “grandpa last name” to differentiate the two sets of granparents. My D, who only grandfathers, called them “Papa first name” and “papa first name.” I definitely would want to use my first name, probably preceded by the tried and true “grandma”.</p>
<p>Younger D and I are reading Tomie DePaola’s childhood autobiographies–
He called his great-grandmother and grandmother Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs. The former was very old and confined to chair and bed upstairs, where he used to visit and spend time with her.</p>
<p>Our family has very nonsensical nicknames, I’m afraid, which would immediately blow our cover if there were any other locals here on CC…</p>
<p>I love doo dah, pmrl - -now that’s a good one!</p>
<p>DH’s side had a Mammy Down Home (grandmother) and Mammy Over Home (great grandmother)…they lived in the same house…go figure.</p>
<p>pronounced Mem-mee not Maam - mee</p>
<p>This will evolve when the time comes. There’s no point predicting.</p>
<p>Let’s say that your first grandchild’s other grandparents are “Grandma” and “Grandpa” to their other grandchildren. It would be hard for you to be “Grandma” and “Grandpa,” too, unless you attached your first names (Grandma Julie and Grandpa Bill, for example).</p>
<p>In our family, my father certainly never anticipated being called “Papa Joe.” But as it happened, my kids’ other grandfather was already “Papa Dan” to a whole bunch of other grandchildren. So it kind of happened naturally. He didn’t seem to care one way or the other.</p>
<p>I don’t object to any of the traditional names for a grandmother, except that I would discourage my kids from calling me “Nana” because my sister had a very bad relationship with one of our grandmothers, whom we called by that name. Hearing a child call me that would bother my sister terribly. But anything else would be fine.</p>
<p>I can’t decide between Gov’ner and Colonel.</p>
<p>My poor MIL was aghast at becoming a grandmother at 45, kinda unexpectedly. She announced before the fact that she’d go with “Auntie Mame.” But, when D actually made an appearance, MIL adopted Grandma first name with aplomb.</p>
<p>Her ex-husband, my FIL, was fine with Grandad (only one, so no name necessary). However, his much younger second wife was aghast. We were visiting one Thanksgiving when D was two, and she was helping set the table. Second Wife would give D each plate, then name who it was for. She gave her a plate and announced it was for “Mr. Bill” (joke name for him a la SNL skit) and D said, “no, Grandad!” Well, they got into an argument, with wife saying Mr. Bill, Mr. Bill, Mr. Bill, and D insisting, Grandad, Grandad, Grandad!!</p>
<p>Things never got much better.</p>
<p>We are expecting our first grandchild in April 
, and I am “going” for Nanna. This is in honor and in memory of someone very dear to me who never had the chance to be a grandmother, though she really, really wanted to.</p>
<p>duuuuuuuuuuude</p>
<p>My kids called their grandparents “Granma and Granpa,” with the last names attached if context required. My father (who came from French Canadian roots) had wanted he and my mother to be called “Pepe and Meme” (Pep-ay and Mem-ay) and he would sign cards to that effect. </p>
<p>When the oldest was old enough to read, she asked why Granpa wanted to be called “Pee-pee.” After that, there was no more talk of Pepe and Meme…Granma and Granpa won the day.</p>
<p>My kids called my Grandmother - their great grandmother - “way old grandma”… after that, I’ll take whatever they call me except ‘way old’!!!</p>
<p>The younger kids call my mother-in-law GiGi (G.G.?), short for Grandma Georgette (not her real name but you know what I mean). It is cute. She also answers to Grandma, which is what the teens and twenties call her.</p>
<p>My niece started calling my dad Boppa when she was little - by the time the grandchildren were mostly teens, it had been shortened to Bops. That was cute too.</p>
<p>I would love to have grandchildren some day, and they can call me anything they want to call me, even Granny. Well, almost anything… When I was a kid we called my grandmother and my great-grandmother “Grandma” and “Old Grandma” - I suppose I would try to resist the “Old Grandma” label. :)</p>
<p>When my cousin’s son was born, our Nanna decided that her great grandson would call her Nanna Peg. However, that was too much for a little kid to say and for a long time, all he could manage was “Pig” and Nanna LOVED it! She said she was so overjoyed to have a great grand baby that anything he called her was music to her ears.</p>