90-Year-Old Great-Grandparents Outsource Sleepover Chaos With Cookie Bribes

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•Lauren Brusie’s grandparents, Doris (87) and Jerry (90), host Christmas sleepovers for nine great-grandchildren.
•They once lived next door, frequently babysit, attend sporting events, and take kids on birthday lunch trips.
•Both grandparents credit their energy to luck and love while maintaining busy social lives with clubs and leagues.

Lauren Brusie's grandparents, Doris (87) and Jerry (90), have mastered the art of surviving chaotic sleepovers with nine of their 14 great-grandchildren. Their annual Christmas tradition features cookie-fueled wrestling, ice cream binges, and movie marathons, followed by breakfast cooked at an ungodly hour that defies human aging logic. Living next door for years, these two camps, golf, and bowling league veterans moonlight as babysitters and birthday chauffeurs, bending their own 4-year-old birthday lunch rule to accommodate excited 3-year-olds. Their secret sauce? Genetics, boundless joy, a hectic casino schedule, and perhaps caffeine disguised as love.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

When your 90-year-old grandparents have more energy and social plans than you, maybe you’re just failing at eternal youth. Sleepovers, bowling, golf, AND babysitting? Meanwhile, I can’t find my keys for 10 minutes.

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Grandparents hosting nine noisy kids for Christmas and still waking up chipper? Either immortality is real or they’re secretly vampires disguising it as 'joyful involvement.'

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My grandparents prefer naps over sleepovers, diet over cookies, and silence over wrestling, but hey, some people age like fine cheese. Spoiler: I’m spoiled cheese.

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