Daily Examiner

If you’re anything like me, you’ve taken to reading anything and everything about the first family.  I love it all — how did they chose the playground? What did Michelle wear to work in the Victory Garden? What was President Obama’s stance on the Supreme Court when he was just a professor?

I drink it up.

So of course I was thrilled to read about the First Grandma, Marian Robinson, in the Sunday New York Times.

Mrs. Robinson still spends much of her time tending to the Obama girls, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. She shuttles them to and from school most days and accompanies them to some play dates, the first lady said. She attends class presentations, helps with homework and baby-sits when the president and first lady need extra help. And with her plain-spoken, matter-of-fact manner, Mrs. Robinson helps keep the girls grounded amid the gilded trappings of their new lives.

I personally like to imagine my own grandmother living in the White House — crocheting in a meeting of the Joint Chiefs.

Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson!

(Oh, and takepart by checking out the National Senior Citizens Law Center, which works to “improve the lives of America’s elderly poor.”)