What Do Your Grandchildren Call You?

Grammy. My daughter wanted to call me by my given name Donna when she was about nine and I said no, I work hard at being a mother so I've earned the title. She thought about it then said with a devilish smile, ok, Mommy Donna. I agreed to that as long as I got the title I have earned and the name's stuck so when she was pregnant it was a given that her child would call me Grammy Donna but grandson has only ever bothered with the Grammy. While the other two grandmothers (his father's mother and step-mother) were arguing over who got to be Nana, I just plunged ahead with Grammy.

My grandfathers both died before I was born so I never knew them but while one grandmother was Grandma, my French grandmother was Minmere.
 

One grandson. He doesn't call. I got a new phone and thought maybe he would text--silly me - sigh.

When my son was a toddler, he was a little mixed up. He called my mom "Grammyfodder".
 
The grandkids have always called me Grandpa Carrot. I'm rather tall and when I was still working I was required to wear a bright orange shirt. Grandma was always Grandma..
 
Don't have any grandchildren yet but am glad to see that Grandpa and Grandma are still popular. Around here most of the grandparents have, what sounds to me, really silly names. Grandpa and Grandma still seem more respectful but I can appreciate the fact that there is bonding with very personal names/titles between you and the child.

My boys always called their grandparents - Granddad and Grandma Ruth (since he remarried) and Grandma Flaherty (just Grandma when they were with her).

Growing up our Dutch grandparents were Grandma and Grandpop (Pop or Poppy is a popular Dutch term for Dad or Daddy) while the German ones were Grandmother (she could be stern!) and Granddaddy. I look forward to Grandma.
 
Just Grandma, but my granddaughter will sometimes call me Gramcracker just to be funny. I read that Prince George calls the Queen "Gan Gan" and his father William used to call her "Gary". LOL
 
jujube said:
MeeMaw when she was young and now it's just Grandma. The step-granddaughters always called me Grandma. The new little sort-of-granddaughter calls me Nanny.
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Update: Now there are TWO little "sort-of-granddaughters" and apparently "Nanny" was too close to "Grandma" for certain members of the family, so I get called by a form of my first name now. The older one came to be a while back and said "___________, you aren't really my Grandma, are you?" I told her no, but I loved her like a grandma. She said, "Well, you aren't really my Grandma but you're MY _________ and that's OK!" Warmed my heart.
 
Mine are all adults now with kids of their own. They called me GRANDPA when small and still do now.
 

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