Grandparents Day

GRANDPARENTS! Grandparents Day
Grandparents Day Gifts
We have Mothers Day...and Fathers Day...And let's not forget...Grandparents Day! National Grandparents Day is celebrated each year on the first Sunday after Labor Day. It is a day to celebrate and honor grandparents. Here you'll find oodles of gifts for grandma and grandpa that celebrate grandparents day.

Celebrate Grandparent's Day This September
Grandparent's Day
Let's celebrate grandparent's day! Grandparent's Day is celebrated in September, on the first Sunday following Labor Day. Jimmy Carter first declared Grandparents Day a national holiday in 1978. In his original proclamation Carter wrote, that because grandparents "are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure, and close the space between generations." He stated that the ho...

Celebrate Grandparents Day
Don't Forget Your Grandparents
Do you celebrate Grandparent's Day? The idea of a Grandparents Day began in the 1970s in Virginia, the brain child of Marion McQuade. It is now a nationally recognised day although not yet as popular as Mothers Day and Fathers Day. The forget-me-not is the official flower of Grandparents Day. It is a poignant reminder of us all to not forget our grandparents on any day of the year, but especially on the first Sunday after Labor Day. You can buy the forget-me-not print featured by clicking h...