Thanks again everyone for your kind wishes. Rob, Francesco and Antonella are lovely names. I have an aunt Antonella, we call her Toni, here in America. Also Uncle Francesco and several cousins!!!My Father was Paulo Mamma is Margarita, so the names go go go. Fignut, I will do this when teething. Good Idea and nutritious too!! Thanks. Big Al, have fun with the grandbaby!!! They are a blesssing so I was told. I will be up there hopefully when I become a " nonna" Your wishes were lovely Thanks everyone again for your kind words, with all the love I have received here, I feel very blessed and glad to have so many Wonderful wishes sent our way. Ciao Ciao, Maggie P.S. Ox, I received your email, I will get back to you soon off the forum. i didn't forget you.

Hi addictedtoroses, Anyone with such an addiction ... can't be all bad. When I saw your intro, I thought, "Never too late to par-ti-ci-pate". So - welcome aboard. But - you were here before I was. Wife's Mom, a teacher, willing to be dragged into aged category only kicking and screaming - encouraged kids to call her "Grammy". When she visited us in Korea, not too many years after Korean war, Korean women, many of whom lived really tough lives, couldn't believe that she was Sue's mother - swore she was her sister. Now several years departed this life. I think their Mom's Dad, who died when they were under 10, was "Grandpa": mine was (their Grandpas were never together). I don't remember what they called my stepmother - "Grandma", I think. They were somewhat older: I was married at 30, son born two years later. Son, now past 40, born in Korea, never married - no children (to speak of). Daughter, nearing 40, married over 13 years ago (she proposed). After about 5 years, hubby came home, announced he'd met his "dream ___" - and it wasn't her. (Don't remember the other part of the word, at the moment). Over 8 years ago. I said that I was glad there were no children, she said, "The way things were for the last while, Dad - I wasn't about to have any". She found a friend, introduced by a high school buddy that she's stayed friends with over the years, with whom she seems to have been getting on well, about a year and a half ago. He in Toronto - she in AZ. We've seen some more of her in the past year or so. Smart, vivacious, multi-faceted, caring. A person to be proud of. And thankful for. Good wishes to you and yours for the coming days. joyful guy/Ed

Don't know what you ended up doing, but my vote is go for it. ( PS We had an (unstained) ikea beech counter for 10 yrs and I loved it.) Walnut and marble.

My grandmother's name was Anna Rebecca LastName. When my sister and I visited her and were introduced to her, we called her grandmother to which she responded well. After she gave us some cookies and milk and the start of making paper flowers, she told us that she preferred that we call her Becky because that was how she was known within her private family and close friends. It was the name she had used for most of her life. She wanted her grandkids to be less formal with her. Grandmother was a loving person and she was near the end of her life when we visited. She lived another 6 years.