Reply #34: I Only Knew One Of My Grandmothers [View All]

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My mother's mother died when I was a baby. My father's mother was always "Grandma" to me and my sisters. Both of our grandfathers were "Grandpa".

It was different for my kids. Their mother's father died before they were born, so they only had one grandfather - my dad. They called him "Pop", because my sone was the oldest grandchild and that's what he started calling my dad - his sister and cousins followed his lead. My mother was always "Grandma" to my kids - they called their other grandmother "Gigi", because she didn't want to be called "Grandma" - she came up with "Gigi" as an abbreviation for "Glamorous Grandmother".