Names other than 'grandma.'

[crz4mm2]

I'm Nana.
My GD has 4 great grandmas... I didn't want to be another g-ma.

 

[JVL1018]

My kids call my FIL PopPop and my niece calls him Grandpa. We live in the same town and its never an issue.
When she says Grandpa, my kids know who she means and when my kids say PopPop, she knows who they mean.
She's a year older than my oldest and she actually started the PopPop, so that's what I had my kids call him. Then she switched over to Grandpa, but my kids stuck with Pop.

I called my mom's mom Grandma(mostly shortened to Gram) and my Dad's mom was Grandma Babe( her nickname).


My dad called his maternal grandmother Mum. She was from Scotland and that's what her kids called her and the grand kids did the same.

My BFF was born when her aunts and uncle were still teenagers so she ended up calling her grandma Mom because that's what everyone around her called her LOL

In your case I'd go with Nana. Or Nana FirstName

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I understand your discomfort, but chances are your kids will call her what their cousins are already calling her. I think it will make everyone uncomfortable if you try to force the issue and have your kids call her something different.

Agreeing with this, but also pointing out it'd be awfully confusing for your kids-to-be, and any other relatives, (if you are near enough to eachother to have the usual big family gatherings) to be calling grampa's girlfriend a different name.

My son was the first and he dubbed my mom "Gammie" because he couldn't get the R in there. (He named my step dad Boppa.) My neice, nephew and daughter all came along, they were Gammie and Boppa.

My next neice and nephew came along and my bro/SIL said it had to be Grammie, not Gammie, but Boppa was ok. It gets very confusing with some saying Grammie and some Gammie. (And to make it wierder, my gram is often there, and everyone calls her Grammie....)

IMO, it's just going to be easier to go with the names already in the family. You could always do Grammie Last Initial to differentiate since they have the same first name.

(You could also have some wierd other thing your kids make up- my kids refer to my dad as "Grampa by the Lake" even though he sold that house about 10 years ago, lol.)

 

[MichelleinMaine]

My suggestions are admittedly unhelpful butthey are kind of funny. Growing up I had a Grandma on the Farm (and Grandpa on the Farm!) and Grandma and Grandpa in the new house. Both names were set when I was about 2-and they signed cards that way through high school. Even though the new house wasn't so new anymore!

See my post- we have Grampa by the Lake, who doesn't live on a lake anymore, lol!

 

[teacherlisa1978]

MichelleinMaine-it is funny how those names stick isn't it? My Grandma doesn't live on her farm anymore either, but inside I still think of her as such.

I also realized I had a Grandpa Babe and a Grandma called Babe. And my grandpa is referred to as "funny guy" by my son. Maybe we are a little odd...

 

[luvmy3]

My kids just call their Grandmother's "Grandma Last Name" It makes things easy.

 

[mjantz]

No grandkids & hopefully none for awhile but I think I'd like to be called 'Marmee'. It's what the sisters in Louisa May Alcotts book 'Little Women' called their mother.

 

[Micca]

We despise my dad's girlfriend, so my son calls her by her first name. But I have her in my phone as "Heather Mills."

OMG, that's classic

 

[Mandychelle79]

My parents are Nana (either with an apple sounding a or uhh sounding a depending on the kid) and Papa.

DH parents are Grandma and Grandpa

My grandma is Grandma maggie, or Grandma with the horse.

 

[Talking Hands]

A friend of my daughter's child calls me Nana Lisa. My great grandmother was called Gaga and my mother's step mom we called Muff. My grandson calls me Nana. My grandmothers were Mem and Mom. Mother was Mother. My other great grandmother was Mymama. My aunt named her that and it stuck. Oh and my daughters' friends call me Mamacita.

 

[englishteacha]

We're facing a similar issue with names. My husband's step mother's grandkids call her Grammy. However, my father's mother, who passed away before my DD was born, was Grammie. My husband and his sister don't want their step mother called Grammie by any of the kids on our side (it's a tenuous relationship at best). Well, step mother didn't take kindly to that when my SIL brought it up to her. We thought perhaps she could be Nana for our kids. Still a grandparent title, but not Grammy.

My mother is also Grandma/Grammy/Gramma, but my nephew calls her Meema. He just couldn't get his mouth around Grandma.

I had 2 Nanas and Grandpas (Known by their last names), and a Mamie (Pronounced like ma'am) and a Pampie. My mother's grandparents were Nanny and The Captain.

 

[ugadog99]

I want to be Gigi, if I'm ever a grandmother.

 

[stsomewhere]

When my son was born, my mom and her "boyfriend" had been together for 10 yrs. He does not have any kids of his own,

Since he was the first grandchild , there was a big debate about what people wanted to be called.
My mom told that her and her boyfriend wanted to be called Grandma and Papa.
I told her that my kids would call him by his first name just like we do since they weren't married.

My son was born in June and they were married a few months later.

My kids call my Dad- Papa (first name) and his girlfriend of 25 yrs by her first name.

My kids call my father in law Buddy ( even though he wanted to be called Grandpa). My sisterin laws kids call him Grandpa.

My daughter is the only one who calls her great grandpa- Papa . My neices call him TuTU:confused

 

[minkydog]

I think I'd like to be.called yia-yia or cookie or nonna.

 

[bedogged]

I am a great grandmother so my daughter is Grandma and I become Grammy.

 

[Mermaid02]

My kids call my Mother "Nonnie" and my husband's Mother "Mimi"

 

[Buckalew11]

Mine were both "Nana and Pop-pop." One set was Nana (her name) and pop-pop (his name) and the set was Nana (his name) and Pop-pop (his name). Not sure why we did that.

My mom and dad are "Grandmom and Granddad." DH's parents "Mema and Papaw." His grandparents were Mimee and Papaw.

I'd like to be "Great Bren" because that's what a few of my sister's kids called me. One could not say "aunt" and it always sounded like "Great". I happened to love it, lol. I'd love for DH to called "Pop-pop" because my Pop-pop was so awesome and loved and I know DH would be "worthy" of the title. I'm hoping for "Pop" or "Pops" if not.

My mom's boss had his grandkids call him Carnac (the magnificent). lol That always cracked me up to hear them say it!

 

[Pakey]

My grandchildren call me Fay-Fay. I did not want to be called Grandma or any version similar to that. My husband is Mo-Mo.

 

[Mermaid02]

My Aunt's grandchildren call her "Grandy"

 

[2girls4me]

My mom goes by Mum. We're not british, it's just what my oldest nephew started calling her.

My mil is grandma. I think was wanted something unique like my mon, but that came from my nephew all on his own.