50+ Lifestyles

In Honor of Grandparents Day September 9, 2012

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
~ Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure.
~ Gene Perret

Grandmothers are just ‘antique’ little girls.
~ Author Unknown

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
~ Welsh Proverb

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.
~ Author Unknown

Never have children, only grandchildren.
~ Gore Vidal

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
~ Pam Brown

Grandchildren don’t stay young forever, which is good because Grandfathers have only so many horsy rides in them.
~ Gene Perret

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.
~ Marcy DeMaree

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
~ Author unknown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
~ Author Unknown

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I’d have had them first.
~ Lois Wyse

My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
~ Gene Perret

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
~ Hannah Whithall Smith

It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother – that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
~ Author Unknown

Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.
~ Mary H. Waldrip

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
~ Proverb

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
~ Gene Perret

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
~ Dave Barry

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have – if only for self-defense.
~ Gene Perret

Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
~ Author Unknown

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
~ Alex Haley