, As tends to happen these days, I have taken a while to get back to blog posting and follow up on my prior post about my memories of raising our daughter Stacy, who eventually made me a Nana. Even when I was preparing to write the next post this past summer, the recognition that AI had usurped my prior post, #50A, delayed my going forward. But finally, here goes where I left off, resuming tales of Stacy’s childhood and youth. Halloween was always a fun time, especially whe

I am re-posting my original #50A from February, 2026, so you can compare it to the AI unrequested version of my post. I renamed the post imposter “AI hijacked my blog post!” As I am writing and about to publish the 50th blog post for FinallyNana.com, it has been about seven years since I began writing my blog, describing all the excitement of finally becoming a Nana and my many international experiences with our grandson Cooper from his gestation, birth in Australia, and thro

(I found the above photo online and appreciatively borrowed it from Vecteezy as I thought it somewhat exemplified what happened to my blog post) The blog post below is an AI fake! Which I shockingly just discovered at the end of July, 2026. I had created, posted and announced Blog Post #50A “Fifty for 50” in February, in my same storytelling style of personally communicating directly with my readers. I finally decided to compose Post #50B and returned to WIX.com, my blog comp

After our two wonderful safari venues in Botswana, the last few days of our family safari were in the famous Victoria Falls area of...

Having described our Planning for an African Safari in Blog Post #47, Nana continues in this blog post with her travelogue of our...

Although we had two terrific Nana and Papa vacations with our grandson Cooper in the second half of 2023 which I have yet to blog about,...

Even before Nana and Papa concluded their delightful March, 2023, Fiji visit, Stacy started hearing about an upcoming meeting she would...

So you might be wondering where Nana has been for the past six months since my last blog was published. I had all good intentions of...

So I’ve been wondering whether we’ve all outgrown the FinallyNana blog, which I had created to share how much I longed to become a...

With Oo-oo reunited with Cooper, the luggage cram-packed into the SUV wayback, Jesse at the wheel of our rental vehicle, Jason...

So I hope you haven’t lost sleep worrying over missing Oo-oo, aka Oo lala in France, which was where Nana ended Blog post #41 about our...

You probably read in blog post #40 all about the multiplicity of details that Nana and her daughter Stacy coordinated to arrange our...

After our busy and fun-filled Florida visit from our Fiji family in June, I was a fully satiated Nana. But even so, with no specific...

So I’d love to jump right in and start telling you about our recent European trip with six year-old grandson Cooper, but I feel compelled...

How to make the most of a theme park visit? From my perspective, that would be an immediate beeline to the most important interest for...

On Saturday, June 12th in Fiji, our family began their long journey to Nana and Papa’s Florida house. On the way to the international...

Even though we had an extensive stay in Fiji over the December/January holidays, I was already wondering, as Jesse and I left for home,...

I must apologize to my devoted FinallyNana readers about how long it has taken Nana to write you off the precipice of Post #34’s...

I am very happy to publish my 34th blog post on my January 26 birthday, having established my Finally Nana blog three years ago. And...

So I never expected it would be more than 10 months since I last posted to my blog. I certainly thought about writing a new post...