Seniors Network

For all you grandparents out there and to the ones that will be in the not so distant future!

• 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

• Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.  ~ Author Unknown

• A  grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. ~ Author Unknown

• One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a  new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. ~ Joy  Hargrove

• It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once  you become one. ~ Author Unknown

• If your baby is 'beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all  the time,' you're the grandma. ~ Teresa Bloomingdale

• Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.  ~ Author Unknown

• What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.  And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~ Bill Cosby

• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~ G Norman  Collie