by Marlene Bumgarner | May 25, 2018 | Aging, Community, Family, Grandparenting, Health
Note: The following essay was published May 6 as a guest post on Sixty+Me. I hope you enjoy it. What is Time? “When will Mommy come, Grandma?” my granddaughter used to ask several times a day when she was little. At first I assumed she missed her mother. I’m sure...
by Marlene Bumgarner | May 11, 2018 | Community, Family, Grandparenting
Hallmark Holiday? I’ve been thinking a lot about mothers this week. I know that not everyone likes the idea of special days for different categories of people. Some people think our annual recognition of mothers is nothing but an overly-commercial “Hallmark Holiday.”...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 26, 2018 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Health, Nature
Spring Planting Last year I missed planting season in Santa Cruz. I was in San Diego taking care of my new granddaughter. This year I started thinking about my spring garden before Christmas and purchased two metal horse watering troughs from a feed store. ...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 10, 2018 | Aging, Child development, Family, Health
Sleeping While Aging So after reading my last post you probably assumed that I returned to my home, 400 miles away from my granddaughter’s nursery, and immediately began getting a good night’s sleep. Wrong. Like more than a third of American adults, I...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Mar 14, 2018 | Aging, Child development, Family, Grandparenting
Getting the Baby to Sleep This time last year I was in San Diego, taking care of my youngest granddaughter while her mother finished her Internal Medicine residency and her father worked upstairs in his office. Since I have returned home, I have been thinking a lot...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Feb 6, 2018 | Aging, Australia, Child development, Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting, Travel
The Grandparent Connection This post will be more along the line of the essays my regular readers are accustomed to: a discussion of a children’s book. It might also help to answer the obvious question: Why has the author of a grandparenting and family blog...