Fabgrandpa and I haven’t seen this yet, but we are planning to soon. He loves Bette Midler and has seen every movie she has been in more than once. The storyline is that and old school grandfather and his eager to please wife, played by Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, agree to babysit their three grandchildren while their parents go out of town for work.
The parents, played by Marissa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott, are type-A helicopter parents, who strictly control their children’s lifes. They give very detailed instructions to the grandparents before leaving, but the grandparents toss the rules as soon as Mama and Daddy leave. It’s when 21st century problems collide with Artie and Diane’s old school methods of tough rules, lots of love and old-fashioned games, it’s learning to bend – and not holding your ground – that binds a family together.
It sounds like a great movie for any age to watch, but because the storyline focuses on how the grandparents in this family handle things, I am especially wanting to see how it ends.
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Noticing them sitting on the couch holding hands when they were both well into their 80′s.
My favorite memory of my grandparents was spending the summer with them on their farm. My Grandpa would come in from the fields with a fresh watermelon and we would all gather around on the porch while he cut it and passed it around. It was the best watermelon ever.
I know it’s weird, but I remember my grandma always having Jello for us when we went to visit.
My grandpa taught me to use a computer!
Every summer my grandparents would have me stay for 2 weeks. I absolutely loved it!
There big German sheperd
doing thousand+ piece jigsaw puzzles
I loved going to my grandma’s house and playing penny poker!
watching my granny cook!
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My favorite memory is my grandmother teaching me how to plant a garden.
my grandfather drinking his coffee from dunkin doughnuts and I could remember how happy that small cup made him
Every thanksgiving my grandfather would make pumpkin and apple pie
I have so many – my favorite of my Grandma is sitting around her house on Saturday nights watching sitcom TV and also watch Dallas with her every weekend
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My favorite is taking my grandmother to atlantic city
i cant really say i remember a whole lot about my grandparents but i do remember spending the night there once and my grandfather told us that if we didnt go to sleep the panthers would come get us lol i dont think i slept at all that night lol
My grandfather used to have different sets if fake funny dentures. You never knew what he would be wearing
Going to the gathering of nations pow wow in New mexico when i was younger with my grandma!
Baking cookies with my Grandma
My grandma making us goodies such as palichinki, showing us how to dance the polks, seeing her fur coats and always having Hershey Kisses available in her candy dish.
The best was being able to see them over the summer every year! My dad was in the Navy we moved alot never lived near them but every summer I got to see them
My favorite memory is visiting my grandparents at Christmas.
Mine iswhen I was little my Grandmother would take me and my little sister shopping and to lunch
Thanks for the giveaway…loved my grandparents Irish brogue.
I remember shopping with my grandmother as a child.
My favorite memory was introducing my grandmother to her first great grandchild.
My grandfather was a retired minister when I married and said a prayer for my husband and I at the beginning of our wedding.
spending xmas with them
My favorite memory is every friday night I would stay at my grammy’s house and we would pop popcorn and watch Friday Fright Night, use to be scary movies on friday nights, loved every minute of it.
My grandfather gave me the love of reading. My grandmother the love of playing the piano.
My Grandmother putting her homemade Mayhaw Jelly on my hot buttered toast!
Thank You!