Nicknames

Mom has been stuck on nicknames a lot lately and I learned some of hers I never new. 

Grandma Swain used to call her "Granny Grump" when she was a kid because she so often had tummy ache.  Turns out she probably had lactose intolerance even then, and hypoglycemia. 

Her brother Bruce used to call her "Carollee-bum", blending her first and middle names together.

The nursing home put up a sign at her door, "Our Little Treasure" and she loves that!  She said she had not been called "little" anything since she was three, probably.  Her mother and sisters were more petite than she was, so they always picked on her about being big.