Grandmothers And Grandfathers?

Question

Tell me a real life story of your past. My Grandperants are not living. They pass away 2 years ago.

Answer 1

Let me tell you about what life was like when I was a child. I grew up in the 1950's and 1960's. In the 1950's life was much simpler. Mother didn't work outside of the home (most mom's didn't) and she kept house and made wonderful meals. She always had time for us kids. Daddy worked in the city and was always home at 5:30 p.m. - dinner was always served at 6:00 p.m. in the dinning room. Most things were delivered to the house so mother didn't have to go out if she didn't want to. Mother would call the grocery store and order her groceries and they'd be delivered in the afternoon. Milk and dairy products like sour cream, cottage cheese, etc. were delivered every morning and the bakery delivered sweet rolls and fresh bread every morning too. Even the dry cleaner picked up and delivered. When you got sick the doctor made a house call and came to you - you didn't have to go out to the doctor's office.

When mother and I did go shopping we'd go into the city - they didn't have shopping malls in the suburbs then. We'd buy many things while shopping but we'd always have the stores deliver everything and it was always delivered the same day.

School was much harder than it is today and the teachers were very strict. There were also a lot more of us kids. The average class in grade school had 50 kids in each class. No one disrupted class or if they did they'd be sent to the principal's office. The principal was allowed to spank them with a paddle. None of us wanted that experience so we didn't distrupt class.

We had two telephones in the house and the phone numbers were much shorter and included a word. Ours was Cherry 4170. This became 244-4170 in the 1960's. We didn't have area codes because long distance calls always had to go through the operator. We had radio and there were actual dramatic shows on the radio and not just music or talk. My dad bought a television in 1952 and we had the only television in the entire neighborhood for several years. There was only one station and there wasn't much to watch on TV in those days but my dad just had to have one. We mostly played games instead like Scrabble or cards or chess. We also read a lot. On Saturday nights we would all pick a favorite poem and read it for everyone else to enjoy. Sounds weird but it was fun.

Answer 2

My paternal grandfather passed before I was born. My step-grandfather passed when I was 8 months. My maternal grandfather passed when I was 6, so there's no recollection there. So, I basically grew up with grandmothers. My maternal grandmother remained widowed; my paternal had a special friend and after 2 marriages, decided it was enough (understandable).
My paternal grandmother would play cards with me. She would have a sense a humor about herself. As a child, she had put makeup on me a couple times. I only saw her once a year, as she moved when I was 12 months old. She moved to the south. Sadly, she passed early 2002, before my child was conceived.
I didn't see my maternal grandmother much. She lived in the south, and was too poor to travel a lot. My mother didn't get to go down much. When I was an adult, things ketp coming up where I couldn't go. I don't have much memories of her. I remember seeing her during my last days of being 18 and first days of being 19. I was there for a week. I was sick the day before I had to return home. She wanted to send someone into town to get me medicine. I was probably sick from the extreme temperature differences between the south and the far north. After I was 20, I had to go 8 years without seeing her. Then, her health failed around the time my paternal grandmother passed. I saw her for Mother's Day weekend in '04. She was in the hospital, and thankfully there was a way for me to see her. When I got there, she was back in the nursing home. She did not remember me: she had Alzheimer's. She passed not even a year later. I made her funeral, and REALLY broke down. I had to bring my child with me, who was only a year-old because I could not leave him with a week with the father. Luckily, my sibling and my mother was able to look after my child while I was broken up.
When my gradmother passed, my maternal, my mother told my sibling and me that her parents were the kind of people who would give the shirts off their backs if someone needed it. And my grandparents were dirtest poor. My mother grew up without toys.
I now have no grandparents. I never had great-grandparents.

Answer 3

My grandmother grow to be born in 1908. while her mom died almost immediately after childbirth various years later, my grandmother, who grow to be the eldest single daughter, took over kinfolk duties and raised her youthful siblings. on a similar time as youthful women human beings her age have been relationship and having a blast in the process the roaring 1920s, then marrying and beginning families, she grow to be keeping abode. She married overdue and had my father in the process the melancholy. She observed it lots, how human beings "nowdays" do no longer likely comprehend what "stressful circumstances" are. She grow to be the unique recycler...elastic bands from retired undergarments, plastic jugs and cottage cheese packing containers. She's been long gone for 8 years this December, and that i think of of her frequently. maximum these days while i grow to be waiting with various different women human beings for an appointment. a woman, i might wager mid 50's grow to be lamenting the desperate circumstances wherein we at latest discover ourselves. She commented remember of factly approximately how her mum and dad and grandparents observed the melancholy, and this grow to be merely like what they observed. We have been on the nail salon waiting for our mani's and pedi's. i actually ask your self whether our era even knows what tightening the belt and sucking up potential.

Answer 4

"we had to walk to school in bare feet , uphill both ways, in the middleof winter, 40below zero, ... That 's the story i got from my grandparents when we didn't get a snow day from school...lol....believe it or not in the 1960's when i was @ 8 yrs. we girls would have sleepovers at oneanothers houses on the weekends, We lived in a rural area so many of the farm houses did not have indoor bathrooms ! my girlfriend had a pot with a lid that she kept in her closet incase we had to go! other wise we had to walk downstairs and out side to use the porta potty. eewwwwuuuuu! we only had 2or 3 channnels on our t.v, if we were lucky enough to live by a bigger city and they went off the air at midnight or earlier.
I thought it was great visiting MY GRANDMA because she lived near the twin cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul ,Minnesota , and on saturdays we had cartoon on til noon!omg.! our phone was a big square box that hung that hung on the wall and it had a crank handle on the side. when you wanted to call some one you had to crank the handle and tell the operater who you wanted to talk to .we never imagined cell phones, ipods.pcs and all that back then.
my grandpa would take big branches of trees that had fallen and make us kids an indian tent with those branches and one of grandma's blankets.
Have you ever tastehome -made ice cream? omg.we did when we were young. try to find a RECIPE FOR HOME-MADE ICE CREAM ON A WEB SITE! if you can find one share it with your friends on a summer night ... well it is 4:am and this granny has got to sleep .. got grandkids commin in the a.m.P.S. your grandparents r looking out for you.. they love u:-)

Answer 5

I went to railway station to see off my daughter and her 2 year old son.As the train started,my grandson peeping from the window said...Nanaji, don't forget to write me a letter.We all burst out laughing and the child was embarrassed. He might have heard this sentence while parting, and repeated it without knowing what he is saying.

Answer 6

My grand daughter was 4 1/2 my grandson was 2 we were watching cartoons on my bed and my grand daughter said dam it AJ stop jump up in front of the tv, I said amber I am going to tell your mama. Well I scolded her and now I forgot about. The next day we were getting into my car to take them home and my grand daughter stops and looks at me and said " if you tell on me you won't be my grandma no more" I was shocked and it took me a minute to remember and I said to her " I will always be your grandma, I am your mommies mama, she said "oh yeah, I forgot." and I took them home and my daughter were siting and talking and she was laughing and telling me that amber started using bad words, so I told her what amber said ( I knew she was not in trouble) And my grand daughter walked in the room as I was telling her mom and the look on her face! I will never tell on thaat child ever again. I felt so bad that she thought I was telling on her!