Monday, January 03, 2011

And the winner is....

Jan has been trying to decide what name she wants to be referred to by her grandchild. I am already Papa Steve, and that is pretty much ok with me, unless C.J. prefers something else. Zeke already calls me Papa, and I like the sound of that. Jan has been called Momma G for a while, but she seemed to think that wasn't a good grandmother name. Grandma Gohring was my grandmother on my father's side, and she was always so much older, that the name carries a kind of old woman cachet. So that was out. She toyed around with variations on Grannie. Grannie Jan, or Jannie for instance, but she did not really care for those. She doesn't really feel like a MawMaw or a Grams, so she has decided on.....

G.G.

This way she has the sound of the initials of Grandma Gohring without the other connotation previously noted. Bonus for me is a constant reminder of Maurice Chevalier.