Sentences with phrase «after my daughters grew»

After my daughters grew up and I didn't have my live - in inspiration for children's stories, I decided to try inspirational women's fiction and romance.

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«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

After six years of working at expenses level, and watching my US Assets grow, I'm looking for the right time for my wife, daughter and I to return to the US, and stay FI without having to work at all.

Years later, after Mack has poisoned his father, after he has grown up and married, after his youngest daughter has been brutally kidnapped and murdered, after he slips into a deep depressive state, after he receives in his mailbox one snowy afternoon a typed letter from the Lord God of Hosts himself, dominus deus sabaoth — after all that — Mack spends a week with the triune Godhead in a secluded little shack by a high alpine lake.

Anyway I have a bumper crop of spaghetti squash for I seem to have an issue with gluten these days so grew a bunch to dehydrate to enjoy over the winter / spring, but when I saw your recipe I decided I must prepare this asap (like day after tomorrow) for my husband, daughter, and myself who love oriental flavors.

The rest of the time she spends traveling — she, her partner Chris, and Rosemary road - tripped and camped across the country after the third season wrapped earlier this year — attempted to garden, and tried to carve out a little self - care time for herself as her daughter grows up.

After the Hornets drafted him with the fourth pick in 2005, he grew homesick for Wake Forest's cafeteria and study hall, until point guard Speedy Claxton and his daughter started inviting him over after pracAfter the Hornets drafted him with the fourth pick in 2005, he grew homesick for Wake Forest's cafeteria and study hall, until point guard Speedy Claxton and his daughter started inviting him over after pracafter practice.

After giving birth to her daughter, Jessica's interests grew and she worked to earn her certifications as a CLC (Certified Lactation Counselor), a birth and postpartum doula and a childbirth educator.

After her 2 week check - up the doctor said our daughter was getting adequate nutrition (as seen by how she was growing well and making enough wet / dirty diapers) that we didn't need to wake her in the night.

My passion for Attachment Parenting grew stronger after my daughter was born.

He was active in area youth sports, coaching for his son's soccer team and his daughter's softball team and continuing for a time even after his children were grown.

She grew up poor and at times destitute after her father left her pregnant mother and two children for the neighbours» 16 - year - old daughter.

The couple participated in American Heart Association Heart Walks with their grown daughters in Orlando, Fla., and Seattle just a year after the transplant.

After the birth of her daughter Savvy, Paige evolved the Facebook group - changed its name to BirthTube and has since grown the group to over 15,000 members!

I don't know for any other way of how to live my life but like this, so I'm afraid that my daughter took after me and that there's a real mini me in every way growing up.

After the unimaginable loss of her daughter, Melissa's love for crocheting and sewing just grew and grew.

After a few teething problems of learning how to use a Japanese Pattern Book, this dress and the collar blouse I also made (ed — post soon) have worked out so well that I'm encouraged to make everything before daughter grows up too much and I have to grade the patterns (she's already on the biggest size).

placid tactile at heart an old fashion romantic hard working great sense of humour divorced with a grown up daughter likes the usual nights in or out hoping to meet a lady to share that elusive happy ever after?

After an assassination attempt leaves Han seriously wounded, Lee promises the diplomat's now - grown daughter, Soo Yung (Jingchu Zhang), to track down the shooter.

After an assassination attempt leaves Han seriously wounded, Lee promises the diplomat's now - grown daughter, Soo Yung (Jingchu Zhang), that he will track down the shooter.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri follows Mildred Hayes (McDormand), a woman who - after growing frustrated with th lack of activity surrounding her daughter's murder case - goes to war with the local law enforcement bu painting three controversial signs which lead into her town.

Sure enough, tensions explode in the form of Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's curvy grown - up daughter who, after years of estrangement, swirls back into the household with plenty of her own drama.

Aphrodite had a daughter, Harmonia with Ares and later after growing up she was betrothed to Cadmus of Thebes.

As Doucett grows older in the confines of a small space, the only glimpse of the outside world comes from the grainy television box, which switches between world news, exercise shows and programs on his daughter, seemingly orphaned after his wife is killed.

Now, after nearly a decade of work, Bennett has completed a mature and moving masterpiece about the indelible bond between mothers and daughters and what it means for motherless girls to grow into women.

In the first authoritative biography of Post, Laura Claridge documents the life of a woman destined to be a society queen, but who instead became the queen of etiquette and a role model for generations of Americans.Born after the Civil War and growing up in the Gilded Age, Emily Price was the daughter of an upper -...

The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author's celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence.

As they grow, their friendship deepens into something more; after all, it's Miel who's the keeper of Sam's secret, who realizes he used to be different, and who understands why he is drawn to bacha posh, a Pakistani practice where families without sons allow a daughter to live as a boy.

Zarina, (born Zarina Hashmi, in Aligarh, India in 1937), the daughter of an academic Muslim family, grew up in an India which ceased to exist after the Partition of 1947.

After Octavia was born, it is possible to notice a growing of personal warmth and wit inside her pieces one wouldn't necessarily expect to find amidst such themes — Kara once admitted that her daughter told her she makes mean art when she was about four years old and that obviously had a slight impact on Walker's methods.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).

To protect happy hour (sorry I missed your call at 6; I was at my daughter's recital); To avoid hurt feelings (sure, those clothes are okay for court); to avoid recriminations (the jury foreman obviously hated you for some reason); to calm fears (the workhouse is not as bad as you've heard); to secure a client (of course you should divorce her, and the kids will be just fine); for career advancement (I'm soooo lucky to work for a brilliant partner like you); to grow one's reputation (I love that tie, your honor); to close a deal (no way would they ever sue over this); to get paid (yes, I will go after your 401 (k) if you don't pay my $ 1,500 fee)...

Groot - Alberts talks of being born in Friesland in the Netherlands, growing up in her early years with her grandparents, marrying, and then suffering the devastating loss of her nearly three years old daughter Nana, two days after her son Aiko was born.

After 27 years of marriage, they have two grown children away at college, and a 15 - year old daughter still at home.

(After the beginning stage, I think most of the bumpiness that occurred was with my birth family... I had expected my birthmom to be like my mom and the family I grew up with and she wasn't, and she had expected me to be like her two other daughters that she raised, and I wasn't.)

The case stems from a December 2005 arrest after police entered the Fraser Valley home of Kien Tam Nguyen and wife, Nga Thuy Nguyen and found their 18 - year - old daughter living there alone in a grow operation.

After six years of marriage, Robert — an Army veteran — and Chastity worked with Mountain Housing Opportunities and Clayton Homes to buy their own ENERGY STAR ® manufactured home for their two young daughters to grow up in.