Grandmothers, are you looking for a special keepsake to give to your grandaughter for her wedding day? A new handkerchief with this special wedding poem embroidered on it would give your grandaughter something to keep with her on her wedding day and to pass down to her grandaughter on her wedding day. Take the poem to a local embroidery shop so you can choose the perfect hanky design for your special grandaughter for her wedding day.
Wedding Bells are Ringing
As wedding bells are ringing
you’ve had so much to do…
from addressing invitations
to finding something blue.
As the details now are finished
take some time to just relax,
enjoy these last few days
they’ll go by oh so fast!
This hanky is a keepsake
that’s from my heart to yours
to remind you of your (Nana’s) love
as you open your life’s doors.
May these next few days be filled with
happiness and cheer
and may the love you know today
grow deeper every year.
Grandparents and grandchildren, Nana’s Corner has discovered a wonderful digital photo software free download for you to check out! Grandparents, you can create custom personalized digital photo books for your grandchildren. Grandchildren, you can create custom personalized digital photo books for your grandparents. Even better yet, create memory books together!
If my children read this: HINT! HINT! … I’d love a Nana Brag Book and I’m sure Poppy would just love one, too! (a great project for the three of you and the girls!)
Not only can you create books with themes for pregnancy, brag book, Baby Photo Book, ABC, family vacations, graduations, holidays, and much more including Mother’s Day and Father’s Day presents, you can also design custom cards.
Our Kaitlin’s 7th birthday is in one month - I’m going to make a memory book for her with pictures of her wonderful 7 years with Nana and Poppy, including other family members and friends, of course.
How do you get started? Here’s what you need to do:
1. click on the link above or below
2. download the free software
3. customize your book with just a few clicks
4. choose backgrounds, page layouts, themes, custom photo book covers
5. easily drag and drop those many digital photos you have stored on your computer…using StoryFlow
6. use photo tools to enhance your pictures
7. visit the idea center and online resources to help you get creative
8. add journaling and captions to add details to the photos
9. enjoy your favorite soundtrack to get in the mood while creating your picaboo photo book
10. visit the site through the link below to learn more and to download the free software
“Walk a little slower, Granddad,”
said the child so small.
“I’m following in your footsteps
and I don’t want to fall.
Sometimes your steps are very fast,
sometimes they’re hard to see.
So walk a little slower, Granddad,
for you are leading me.
Someday when I’m all grown up,
you’re what I want to be.
Then I will have a little child
Who’ll want to follow me.
And I would want to lead just right,
and know that I was true.
So walk a little slower, Granddad,
for I must follow you.”
~ Author Unknown ~
Note: I took the liberty of changing Dad to Granddad because many granddads are helping to raise their grandchildren, too. As you can see in Emily’s gift to her dad, the poem has Daddy. Any title or name can replace the original one to make it a more personal gift.
In Nana’s Corner Store you will find gifts for yourself or your favorite Nana. The inventory in Nana’s Corner Store will be updated whenever I find Nana merchandise that I think you might enjoy. Happy browsing!
Nana’s Kitchen apron. 100% cotton duck embroidered apron with adjustable neck. Front pocket and bottom have plaid ruffle. Chocolate chip cookies embroidered on front with “Nana’s Kitchen”. Machine wash, tumble dry. Available in Burgundy.
Of all the names that I’ve been called, I like NANA best!!! Great Christmas gift or birthday gift for Nana. Makes a wonderful gift for new grandmothers too! T-shirts, sweatshirts, jerseys, mugs & more.
Nana Frames
I Love My Nana Photo Frame by RUSS
Place that perfect grandchild’s picture in this adorable Scribbles ceramic picture frame and give it as a gift anytime of the year. A picture of a grandchild always brings a smile to every Nana, including this one!
A picture frame for the Nana who loves to spoil the grandchildren with lots of homemade sweet treats! Perfect frame to place in the kitchen where your favorite baker will feel close to her grandchildren while she’s baking those special treats!
Nana Framed Poems
If you don’t have time to create your own framed poem gift with poems found on Nana’s Corner, here are some that Nana may enjoy…
This is a beautiful new 14 karat yellow gold diamond cut “#1 Nana” charm. This makes the perfect gift for yourself or your Nana. A Chain is not included. I received the same charm for my first Mother’s Day as “Nana” and I wear it on a chain close to my heart.
Grandparents everywhere will appreciate getting Grandpaw and Nana. Grandpaw’s plaid neckbow and Nana’s earbow matches the sky blue and brown sign they hold together with embroidered “#1 Grandparents” on the front. Complete with button applique, and designed to coordinate with the Out of the Blue Cafe collection for Spring of 2007!
Our That’s It, I’m going to Nana’s House design features our adorable peeking baby holding a red suitcase. This cute & funny design is available on bibs, onesies & t-shirts
Is your Nana the best? Why not tell her with this great Nana’s are the Best large mug. Perfect for birthday’s or mother’s day gifts for nana’s! Can make a great pregnancy announcement, also!
Our grandchildren are busy this summer playing in the New Jersey sun (with sun block, of course). Kaitlin, finally decided last week it was time for her to ride a two-wheeler like her friends, and just took off one day down the sidewalk after one go around with her daddy holding on. She’ll be 7, one month from today, and started day-camp today at a school where her daddy works. This year she’s going five days a week instead of three. She gets to take the bus everyday which is a big change. For the past two years three days a week, we drove down to pick her up from her mommy’s school and drive her back up here to camp…then pick her up at the end of the day and drive her home. It was a lot, but we enjoyed it. Now with the price of gas, it’s just impossible for us since our son just moved 30 minutes away in another direction and we’ll be driving out there also to visit and help paint the place.
You know, as grandparents, we still worry…that seems to never change. Today we were worried how she would react this morning, but she ran up to the bus with a great big smile and no hesitation. We are all hoping that will last since the camp is about 30 minutes away and she’s the first one to be picked up in the a.m. Hopefully, she’ll be the first one let off, too. She’s signed up for tennis, newsletter staff, swimming, music, and soccer. She’s a very active young lady and this should keep her from being bored.
Emily, who is 2 1/2 next month, attends daycare where her mommy teaches. Her big accomplishment, just this past week, is that she isn’t afraid anymore of going in the above ground pool they have in their backyard. Poppy and I started her off in a kiddie pool two weeks ago, then a 3 foot pool last week. Now in the big pool (Daddy’s pool), she kicks and moves her arm to get around (in her tube). But would you believe it, she wants no tube and no one holding her in the big pool! No fear in that child! Last year she was petrified. You just never know!
Well enough about my grandchildren, here are some summer poems I’ve gathered for grandparents to enjoy with your grandchildren. Remember the sun block, and have a safe, Happy 4th of July!
In My Little Swimming Pool
I can stay real cool
In my little swimming pool.
On a sunny summer day,
I can splash and play.
When I wear my bathing suit,
I’ll be cool and I’ll be cute
In my little swimming pool.
~Author Unknown~
Splash and Kick
When the sun is shining,
I like to go swimming,
Swimming in my backyard pool.
Splashing and kicking
Water all around me,
Splash, splash, kick, kick,
Keeping cool.
~Author Unknown~
Summer Sun
Summer sun in the sky
Shining, shining up so high
Makes it warm for outside fun
To play at the park and run
To swim, hike, and fish
And go on a picnic, if you wish!
~Author Unknown~
Summertime
See the shining sun.
See us play and run.
Summertime, oh, summertime,
We are having fun.
Watch us as we play.
We play and run all day.
Summertime, oh, summertime,
Please don’t run away.
~Author Unknown~
Bright Sun
Bright sun shining down,
Shining on the ground.
What a lovely face you have,
Yellow, big, and round.
~Author Unknown~
Fun in the Sun photos by Nana
Fun in the Sun Fun by Emily and Kaitlin
The 4th of July is a day for grandchildren and grandparents together to celebrate our nation’s independence and continued freedom. Take the time to talk about what the 4th of July celebration means to you and your family. Tell your grandchildren how you celebrated the 4th of July when you were their age. What traditions did you enjoy? Start them up with your grandchildren now.
Where there are grandchildren, there are bikes. When I was a young girl in Connecticut, we would decorate our bikes and have a parade through our community’s safe, side streets. Our families would line up along the curb and cheer us as we rode by. The younger ones were in decorated wagons pulled by older siblings or parents. The last year we lived there, the local country club held a 4th of July costume contest. My older sister was Martha Washington and I was Miss Liberty with a Flag Dress and Crown. We both won prizes and it is something I haven’t forgotten over these past 50 years! After the parade, we all gathered for a block party while we waited to leave for the local fireworks display that night.
All your grandchildren will need to decorate their bikes and wagons are rolls of red, white, and blue steamers, flowers, etc. and your imagination their imagination. Include their pets, too, for added fun!
Here is a YouTube video of one community’s 4th of July Bike Parade:
From Nana, Poppy, Kaitlin, and Emily
to all grandparents and grandchildren:
“Walk a little slower, Granddad,”
The 4th of July is a day for grandchildren and grandparents together to celebrate our nation’s independence and continued freedom. Take the time to talk about what the 4th of July celebration means to you and your family. Tell your grandchildren how you celebrated the 4th of July when you were their age. What traditions did you enjoy? Start them up with your grandchildren now.