Forget about becoming my mother...I'm now officially my grandmother.

[lapucelle]

I went out today with one mission only: to replenish my supply of bags of hard candy.

How do you know that you've officially become your parent/grandparent?

[radical noodle]

1. I knew I'd become my mother and grandmother when

I started finding wadded up kleenex in all my pockets.

[KT2000]

4. +1

and more incidents missing one and going through the wash!!

[lapucelle]

8. The nuns in school used to tuck kleenex in the wrist of their sleeve.

I guess they had to keep the pockets free for the giant rosary beads.

Do you think that saying "kleenex" instead of "tissue" is another sign that we're getting up there in years?

[rsdsharp]

14. I don't think my fifth grade teacher, Miss Rogness, was Catholic

but she did the same thing with Kleenex. As she would say "That's all to it!"

[radical noodle]

18. Kleenex is the 50s version of tissue

LOL! I can remember when we used handkerchiefs. BTW, I'm a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Yikes, I really AM old.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I became my grandmother when I started washing and saving aluminum foil.

[lapucelle]

9. That's a new one for me, but I'm definitely doing it from now on.

[virgogal]

3. I really AM a grandmother----welcome to the club.:-)

[lapucelle]

7. I am too, but I thought I was a hip, cool, grandmother.

I'm starting to go old school.

[missingthebigdog]

5. Bought a big red purse at the thrift shop this weekend.

Got in my car this morning and noticed it sitting in the passenger seat. My first thought was, “What is Granny’s pocketbook doing in my car?”

My grandmother has been gone for almost ten years. Tales of the things she used to pull out of her “pocketbook” are legendary.

I’m not sure what compelled me to buy this. I only carry my phone case, usually. Definitely a sign that I am becoming her....

[lapucelle]

6. Do you wear an emergency safety pin on your house dress yet?

[Siwsan]

10. I can't pass up a good deal on coffee -

That's from my Mom. And, as soon as I break into the big, jumbo pack of paper towels or toilet paper, I put it on my 'to buy' list. That's from my Grandmother.

And to put it back yet another generation, I have been known to 'cast spells' on people who really annoy me - that would be from my Great-Grandmother. I fear going back any further than that!!

[lapucelle]

11. Why not cast a few spells on Republican congressional incumbents?

Put your talents to use in the service of humankind!

[Siwsan]

13. I have been, but their evil is STRONG!!!

I did once make a guy's beard start falling out, in patches, simply by convincing him it was. He was my very obnoxious Republican boss.

[Phentex]

12. I saw my nana in the mirror recently...

the years I most remember her are when she was about my age now!

[lapucelle]

15. I still see a teenager if I'm not wearing my glasses.

[kimbutgar]

16. My grandfather had a sweet tooth and as I get older my sweet had beenincreasing

Except like my grandfather I never will sprinkle sugar on my sliced tomatoes.

[NanceGreggs]

17. Just last week ...

… my son and daughter dropped me off somewhere, and it took me forever to get out of the backseat of the car.

I turned to them and said, “Sweet Jesus, I just turned into my grandmother,” a woman who took so long to extricate herself from a vehicle, you could learn a second language during the process.

The thing is that during this exercise, my grandmother would stick her tongue out and move it from side to side until she was firmly back on terra firma. I’m not quite there yet – but I have a sinking feeling I’m heading in that direction.