Gramcracker Crumbs

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Gather poster board pencil candy: Bit-O-Honey, Skor bar, Snickers, Good & Plenty, 100 Grand, Milky Way, Mounds, Hershey Kisses, Hershey Hugs small package of nuts tape markers stickers (optional) Go 1. Write the following message in pencil on poster board, leaving room for the candy words in brackets: Dear Grandpa and Grandma, You are sweeter […]

Aging gracefully and spending time at the beach....got these two covered!

We’re excited to introduce a long time reader and blogging friend of ours… Teresa Kindred from NanaHood.com. She is a former teacher, author of several books, public speaker, event planner, friend, dog lover, chief cook and reluctant housekeeper. Teresa is going to be joining us regularly to share a new column called “5 Minutes with... Read More

I have the letter my mom wrote to me and left under my pillow that first night in my college dorm room after the family had moved me in, hugged me goodbye and driven away.

Close Grandparent-Adult Grandchildren Relationships = Less Depression, so says a study by Brown College. My own experience bears that out.

Grandmother showers are a relatively new phenomenon - and a lovely one! Joan Stommen truly enjoyed the shower for her granddaughter. Read more from Joan on her blog, Gramcracker Crumbs. Marching into spring means lots

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Senior, Single and SeventySomething This year, 2020, I’ll be alone, staying home and staying safe. But I’m still dancing to oldies via,...

Forty seven years and six days after we spoke our wedding vows; we were forever parted by death. In the middle of an August afternoon, my husband laid down for a nap and never woke

Change, growth and new beginnings describe the booming environment on Western Michigan University’s campus in the early 1960s. Wood Hall had just become fully operational as the largest classroom structure

This is a throwback post from my daughter's childhood and my poetry writing phase . This one really grabbed me; Tracy's daughter...my younge...

If I could wrap my arms around this house, I'd thank it for letting us become grandparents, for allowing us to grow old together and eventually, for givi...

MICKEY'S GOTCHA DAY Though Jim and I held no big birthday blowout of any sort, last Friday was the "gotcha day" for Mickey, our pointer-pit bull bundle of love. Then... Now...

So you’re a little bit older and a lot less bolder than you used to be” sings Bob Seger; one of my favorites from the 60’s! I’m proud to say I sang and danced to