Gotta Have Swag

Hi!

Everybody knows grandmas aren't your same old grandma anymore. My Nana sewed lovely flannel nightgowns for both me and my dolly every Christmas. She had 10 grandchildren and was widowed for over 30 years. (I include that because every grandma knows that having a husband seriously limits the attention she can pay to her grandchildren. She lived for her grandchildren, and oh, the stories she could tell! My other grandma had a bazillion grandchildren and who knows how many greats long before I came along, so for Christmas every year her bachelor son gave the grandchildren a box of orange sticks (remember the chocolate-coated jellies in the skinny rectangular box?) from her, while she was re-gifting the blouse/sweater/robe/nightgown/stationery/ lotion/slippers that our parents had given her the year before. I adored her, although truly, for me, she couldn't have been a more polar opposite in the "kindly, sweet, talcum-powder-fragrance-wafting" old lady continuum than my multi-talented diva Nana.

Me? I have had nearly 20 grandchildren for 15 years and the count is now up to 31 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, and 3 step-great-grandchildren ranging in age from 30 years to 6 months. I'm definitely not a "new variety" grandma. I have cousins and friends who go biking, hiking, camping, rock-climbing, marathon running, scuba diving--you know all that stuff--with their grand kids. That's not me. I'm not sure that any of my descendants will have that kind of grandma, and I'm very sure they will NOT have a grandma like either of mine, or like me. Maybe from the other side of their gene pool. 

So what is a grandma these days? More specifically, who am I? I've had three distinctly different careers: elementary school teacher; corporate consultant; and co-founder of a high-tech, state-of-the-art online training and consulting company. while being divorced once, widowed twice, married 3 times, birthing 6 children with the same father, and living in over 30 different apartments or houses over 54 years. And obtaining a Masters Degree while supporting 6 children on a student stipend and a teaching assistant fellowship. 

So I'm not your ordinary Gramma. This Gramma's got SWAG. Major swag! 

You can stay on this site for interesting comments, or you can find Silly Swag at www.sillyswag.blogspot.com or Serious Swag at www.seriouswag.blogspot.com.

Thanks for visiting my blog Gramma Got Swag. You can also find me on Instagram and maybe Facebook. Soon maybe YouTube. And next year on The Ellen DeGeneres Show...... 

Seeking Silly Swag   www.sillyswag.blogspot.com

Some people really like silly swag. Some others are totally disgusted with an over-70-year-old goofy gramma that's into SILLY. So if you like SILLY SWAG, here's the link. If you want SERIOUS SWAG, you'll have to go to a different place! Or maybe you aren't interested in this blog site at all. That's OK. I won't be offended, and I hope you won't be, either.

 They didn't choose me for any important parts at the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City this year, so I had to create my own role. You can use the comments section to tell me what you think it was.











Don't you just LOVE Independence Day??

Thanks for visiting my blog Gramma Got Swag. You can also find me on Instagram and maybe Facebook. Soon maybe YouTube. And next year on The Ellen DeGeneres Show...... 

Friday, August 28, 2015

 Serious Swag  www.seriouswag.blogspot.com

So sometimes this gramma wants to be deep serious about important things. Serious swag is for my spiritual insights and observations. I'm not interested in disputes or uncivil dialogue. You will have to contact me personally to discuss your disagreements with my opinions or beliefs. And anything uncivil will be unanswered in any case.

I enjoy respectful, thoughtful dialogue around diversity of ideas. I consider myself to be intelligent, spiritually experienced, well-informed on a variety of religious and philosophical perspectives, generous-hearted, and have an inclusive definition of "truth", consistent with my age and stage of life and the challenges I have faced and overcome with God's help. So I don't say this with arrogance, but with gratitude. I don't much care for spiritual silliness or sophistry. I am secure in my own spiritual path, recognizing and accepting my flaws and weaknesses with confidence that they are leading me to be more Christ-like in every aspect of my mortal journey.

"Families can be together forever, through Heavenly Father's plan. I always want to be with my own family, and the Lord has shown me how I can."

-Ruth Muir Gardner

Thanks for visiting my blog Gramma Got Swag. You can also find me on Instagram and maybe Facebook. Soon maybe YouTube. And next year on The Ellen DeGeneres Show......