The following is a guest post by Teresa Bell Kindred who blogs at Nanahood. She’s a Nana who likes to have fun, but she asked me to be sure to let you know she’s kidding. I mean, I think she’s kidding. I’m pretty sure she’s kidding. No really, she’s kidding. :)
I can’t let David Letterman out do me, so here are my Top Ten Ways To Be A Cool Nana…..
10. Tattoo your grandchild’s name on your arm. If you have several grandchildren use both arms. If this doesn’t sound appealing use an ink pen for the tats and wash it off after your grandchildren visit.
9. Feed your grandchildren as much candy and as many soft drinks as they can hold, but make sure you only do this when they are not spending the night with you. Unless of course you like staying up all night watching Miley Cyrus reruns.
8. Do whatever they want to do when they want to do it and don’t complain about the mess.
7. Give them the television remote and tell them they can watch anything they want (be sure and have the remote programed for only age appropriate channels before you give it to them).
6. If they are spending the week with you and don’t want to take a bath or brush their teeth-don’t make them.You fought that battle with your children. You shouldn’t have to do it again.
5. Take them to an animal shelter and buy them a pet to take home to mom and dad.
4. Get concert tickets for their favorite rock group and tell them they can take a friend. Then buy yourself a good set of ear plugs and go with them.
3. For summertime entertainment- Have a food fight out on the deck. When you are done use the water hose to spray everyone off. Remind grandchildren not to try this at home. Parents are not nearly as cool as nana.
2. Use photo shop to make a picture of you with their favorite sports star. They’ll think it’s really cool that nana once dated Tom Brady.
And the number one way to prove you are a cool nana….
1. Sell your car and replace it with a Moped Scooter. Use the money you make to take the whole family to Disney World for a week.
Teresa is a super fun Nana (even though she really doesn’t have a moped) who blogs at Nanahood. Spend some time with her on her blog, and take all of your moms and Nanas with you!
LOL!!!! Love it!! Sharing it with my mom (“Nana”) – she will get a huge kick out of it!!!
Thanks Katie for posting this…..I did a very big kick out of it!! :)
This is hilarious! I am sharing this with my mom and mother-in-law. Thanks for the smile!
Thanks for the laughs! :)
I am printing this list and giving it to my mom as a list of things not to do! LOL. Especially the animal shelter part!
This is great! Wish you had been my nana! Ah well, my grandma was the greatest woman I have ever known.
ROFL… I love it.. Im a Nana but I just dont see myself doing many of these.. but I do like the food fight on the deck.. haha! Ok.. I do the sugar high too when they’re going home that day. :D Thats a Nanas job! ;)
Classic! I think you’ve been talking to my mom. LOL
When we were kids, my grandma took care of 7 grandchildren for about 3 days. It was really warm weather, and she didn’t want to do laundry for all of us, so she suggested we pretend to be indians and she tucked washclothes into the front and back of our underpants, painted our faces, arms and legs, and let us run around that way until about 2 hours before our parents got back! One of my childhood’s happiest memories! LOL
This si exactly how my Mom was with my kids and NOW it is my turn!! AND it is so fun!!
Thanks to all who commented about my guest post and a really BIG thank you to Laura for sharing it on her site. By the way Laura, your food pictures look so good today that I may drive up and visit you this week! Yum!
Hugs to all,
Teresa