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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 15:22:08 GMT -5
My stepson calls me GiGi because that's about all I had left to me in nicknames he could say when he came to live with us. His mom had a BF who went by his first initial which is my first initial so that was out. Doubling it up to DD made it sound way too much like Daddy. Mom was already Mimi. There was a Momo, I wasn't going to be Mumu. FWIW, I got called his grandma at least once by stupid daycare people. In my early 30s. IDK when this person thought I started having kids.... My kids have friends whose grandmothers are my age - maybe a scosh older.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 15:24:36 GMT -5
I'm cool and hip! Plus, by the time I am a Grandma (god help me) Kiki won't be in fashion anymore. Apparently we are going back to long formal names with no nicknames. Kiki will sound pretty silly in 20 years, and that does fit me. However, Koko is cute too! You can't be KoKo. Because when I finally flip out in my full-on midlife crisis I am running away and changing my name to Coco Rio so no one will find me!!
Well, shit. Now everyone can find me. Fine, you can be KoKo.
You can't expect to exclusively use a first name that is out there and has been for years. Especially one that belonged to someone so famous.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 30, 2016 15:36:58 GMT -5
My stepson calls me GiGi because that's about all I had left to me in nicknames he could say when he came to live with us. His mom had a BF who went by his first initial which is my first initial so that was out. Doubling it up to DD made it sound way too much like Daddy. Mom was already Mimi. There was a Momo, I wasn't going to be Mumu. FWIW, I got called his grandma at least once by stupid daycare people. In my early 30s. IDK when this person thought I started having kids.... My kids have friends whose grandmothers are my age - maybe a scosh older. I'm closer to accidental grandmother age now than I was when he was 2, he's a month shy of 12! I'd have had to have started in elementary school some time!
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Jun 30, 2016 15:38:03 GMT -5
In Icelandic it is Amma.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 15:38:17 GMT -5
Ugh. Was the person that said it very young, and maybe didn't have a guage?
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 30, 2016 15:59:29 GMT -5
I love MiMi and GiGi. One of my close friend's grandmother's name was Dorothy, and all the grandkids (and the great grandkids, and the grandkid's friends, etc) called her DoDo. It was cute, easy and personal. When my friend had a baby, her Mom (who was vain as hell) thought she would continue the tradition and went by JuJu because her name was Julie. I was thinking since me name starts with a K - I might go with KiKi. What is your friend's name - could she bastardize it into a cute nickname? I think KoKo could be a really cool grandma name and I personally think it fits you better. KiKi is a young, hip, name, not a name synonymous with grandmothers. ETA: and KoKo Is reminiscent of Kokopelli that blesses you south-westerners with grandchildren in the first place. Koko makes me think of George Costanza. Maybe instead of Koko you could be T-bone?
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Post by grits on Jun 30, 2016 19:14:35 GMT -5
mame` It is an informal French term. I have known more than one elegant lady who went by mame`. Queen Victoria referred to herself as Grand-mama.
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Post by cael on Jun 30, 2016 20:20:01 GMT -5
Really late to this party - my mom is still trying to decide what she wants to be called. She hates "grammy" and "nana" because she thinks they sound so old.. she considered Mudie (pronounced "moody"), which was what her mother was to us, but we agreed there's only one true Mudie and it just wouldn't be right, lol. Then she thought Mimi, but now she isn't even sure about that. She keeps calling herself grammy to the baby.. possibly because she's called herself grammy to our cat for 2 years. No idea what she'll settle on.
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Post by midjd on Jun 30, 2016 20:59:17 GMT -5
My mom goes by Nana, I don't think it sounds too old. MIL wanted to go by Granny -- my initial reaction was but it turns out her favorite grandmother was a Granny and those are her best childhood memories, so it made sense. DD has always called her Mamaw, so I guess it doesn't matter.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 21:04:09 GMT -5
I think KoKo could be a really cool grandma name and I personally think it fits you better. KiKi is a young, hip, name, not a name synonymous with grandmothers. ETA: and KoKo Is reminiscent of Kokopelli that blesses you south-westerners with grandchildren in the first place. Koko makes me think of George Costanza. Maybe instead of Koko you could be T-bone? Why t-bone? That doesn't seem to have any relationship at all to either me or the grandmother status. No matter what you choose someone is going to have some gut reaction. Pick one that works for you and everyone else can go jump back up their mother.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 30, 2016 21:24:15 GMT -5
Koko makes me think of George Costanza. Maybe instead of Koko you could be T-bone? Why t-bone? That doesn't seem to have any relationship at all to either me or the grandmother status. No matter what you choose someone is going to have some gut reaction. Pick one that works for you and everyone else can go jump back up their mother.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 30, 2016 21:28:05 GMT -5
Maybe I should just go with Goerge.
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Jul 1, 2016 6:59:34 GMT -5
In Swedish it's Mormor (maternal side) or Farmor if it's fraternal side.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jul 1, 2016 8:23:16 GMT -5
My mom uses gigi.
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Post by tskeeter on Jul 4, 2016 21:13:02 GMT -5
Really late to this party - my mom is still trying to decide what she wants to be called. She hates "grammy" and "nana" because she thinks they sound so old.. she considered Mudie (pronounced "moody"), which was what her mother was to us, but we agreed there's only one true Mudie and it just wouldn't be right, lol. Then she thought Mimi, but now she isn't even sure about that. She keeps calling herself grammy to the baby.. possibly because she's called herself grammy to our cat for 2 years. No idea what she'll settle on. Maybe she'll go for Bob. Easy for little kids to say. And she's sure to be the only Grandma Bob on the block. Unless she's got LGBT neighbors.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 4, 2016 21:39:12 GMT -5
Really late to this party - my mom is still trying to decide what she wants to be called. She hates "grammy" and "nana" because she thinks they sound so old.. she considered Mudie (pronounced "moody"), which was what her mother was to us, but we agreed there's only one true Mudie and it just wouldn't be right, lol. Then she thought Mimi, but now she isn't even sure about that. She keeps calling herself grammy to the baby.. possibly because she's called herself grammy to our cat for 2 years. No idea what she'll settle on. Maybe she'll go for Bob. Easy for little kids to say. And she's sure to be the only Grandma Bob on the block. Unless she's got LGBT neighbors. My sister is Aunt Bob. Well, Barb really, but the way the kids say it, it sounds like Bob.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 22:53:23 GMT -5
I was about 10 minute pregnant when mom told me she was going to be nana... And nana she is
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Post by sparks2710 on Jul 4, 2016 23:30:21 GMT -5
My brother and I called my grandma Mammie. My cousins called her Ahma. I called my grandpa Poppie and my cousins always called him Harold (his first name).
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jul 5, 2016 11:50:25 GMT -5
My friend's grandkids call her Nina.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 5, 2016 14:54:20 GMT -5
We were talking about this last night. Thing 1 told me that I have about 10 years to make up my mind. God bless her.
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Post by tskeeter on Jul 6, 2016 19:37:34 GMT -5
Maybe she'll go for Bob. Easy for little kids to say. And she's sure to be the only Grandma Bob on the block. Unless she's got LGBT neighbors. My sister is Aunt Bob. Well, Barb really, but the way the kids say it, it sounds like Bob. Should have known. Reality is even more ridiculous than my imagination.
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 6, 2016 19:43:10 GMT -5
My mother insisted on being called "grandmother". She hated all the abbreviated forms. I dubbed my grandmother "Nomie" (with a short "o" sound). She practically raised me as a little one and Nomie was my way of calling her "mommy" without actually calling her "mommy".
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Post by tloonya on Jul 6, 2016 21:16:34 GMT -5
DD called my Mom by her first name without Mom being objective to anything. Try that!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 6, 2016 21:24:38 GMT -5
My sister is Aunt Bob. Well, Barb really, but the way the kids say it, it sounds like Bob. Should have known. Reality is even more ridiculous than my imagination. What you call ridiculous, I call cute little kid mispronunciation.
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