http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com A Blog for Grannies Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:59:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 2005 Naomi Cranney turned 100 years old and the State of Mass- echusetts honoured her by proclaiming it "Naomi Cranney Day." Later on that year this sprightly woman flew to Hawaii to attend a business meeting. (She made $338,000 a year in her particular home business.) ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/positively-vibrant-business-partner.html The "Middle Wife" I've been an educator since 1968. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade class room a few years back. When I was A kid, I loved show-and-tell. So ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/104.html Ever wonder why some plants look like human body parts? Go here to find out why: God’s Pharmacy http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/gods-pharmacy.html Here are some vitamins that I believe Grannies should be aware of (for their grand- babies): KidScents MightyVites provide a superior full-spectrum children’s multivitamin in chewable tablets. The bonus is that each tablet includes essential oils rich in limonene and the immune system strengthening polysaccharides of the NingXia wolfberries. KidScents ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/mighty-vitamins-for-little-kidlets.html This is a picture of my favorite Bikers Flip-Ups by Skechers. Comfy to the max, and kind of cute, and also I was able to take out the insert and put in my orthotic-- always a bonus with shoes for Grannies, right? http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/cool-comfy-walking-shoes.html It's a rainy day today and I'm missing my little munchkins... while I was having a shower in the bathroom that they use when they visit I decided that I would hang pictures of the two little bathing beauties on a space above the commode that is currently vacant. ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/rainy-day-dreamin.html My shoulders are aching. I did a little too much gardening today I think. Now I am going to do a little research about books that I can read up before my little granddaughters come home in June... A-1 is 2 1/2 and A-2 is about 7 months ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/a-night-in.html In times past I have enjoyed many granny gardens-- my own grandmothers both gardened, one being what I would call a "master gardener". Gran Rempel came from a long line of 'horticulturalists', many of whom trained at the University of Guelph, where I see you can now gain an ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/into-the-garden-i-go.html I am the Belated Gardener. I have good intentions, but planting by the Moon-- isn't that some horrid pagan ritual? And so, I usually have some scraggly little garden and most of my seeds-- if they do indeed, germinate-- turn into leggy vines with tiny veggies, hardly worth the bother. But this year will be different. I can feel it ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/96.html We've all been there as grandparents, I'm sure.... our little grandchild-- delightful, cherubic, sweet-smelling-- won't go to sleep. Either we're trying to assist our tired adult child, the parent, get the squalling baby to release all that tension into lovely restful sleep, or we're trying to do it ourselves ... http://grannyxpress.healthiacynthia.com/getting-baby-to-sleep.html