Grandma's word of the day: Palmary
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Today's word is... PALMARY
Definition of palmary (per The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things):
[PAL/PAHL-muh-ree] adjective
From Latin palmarious ...
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Rapid recovery
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Grandmothers and others know few things prompt panic in a parent's or grandparent's heart quite like a late-night phone call or text from a child. Even an adult child.
I received one such scary communication from my daughter Megan — mom to my grandsons — last Friday night. Granted, it was only 8:30 in the evening, 7:30 her time, but that's not a time my long-distance daughter and I typically talk or text. So my heart indeed flip-flopped a few times upon hearing her ringtone.
Camden hurt himself, she told me.
Long story short: The rambunctious kid had been rambunctioning about (my word) and demonstrating to big brother Brayden how awesome he was at holding his breath. Resulting in Camden — briefly — passing out. And landing, unconscious, on his head on the hard stone tile flooring found throughout much of their house. A tremendous goose egg on his head served as reward for the frightening feat.
Thankfully Megan's sister-in-law is a pediatrician, so...
On art and brotherly love
/My two youngest grandsons are great buddies. While big brother Bubby is off at school, Mac (4) and Jak (16 months) spend a lot of time together enjoying such things as kicking back on Mommy's bed to watch TV while Mommy gets ready for her day.
Their close connection doesn't keep Mac from throwing Jak under the bus now and then, though. Especially when it...
Grandma's magnifying glass lesson
/My two oldest grandsons, Bubby and Mac, love Scooby Doo and the idea of solving mysteries. So when I visited them in January, I brought along an old magnifying glass we had lying around.
The boys got a kick out of taking a closer look at bugs and rocks—as they previously had with a toy magnifying glass I once brought—and pretending they were on the path to discovering clues that might solve a case of an imaginary Scooby Doo and the gang sort.
When I packed my grandma bag for this current visit, I figured I'd...
Climbing trees and singing songs
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Kids love to climb trees, and Bubby is no exception. Once he turned 5 years old, tackling tree climbing and finding freedom above the rooftops proved a top priority for my grandson.
