Sentences with phrase «kids years ago»

We «adopted» the Sunshine Kids years ago as a Prudential franchise and we support them to this day, having raised over $ 1.5 million from our offices» local efforts, our annual corporate golf outing and generous donations from the community.

Not exact matches

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

Former President Barack Obama said five years ago that, if he had a son, he would not want him playing pro football, while legendary athlete Bo Jackson said last year «there's no way I would ever allow my kids to play football today.»

«It's becoming far more common, people are having their kids older and they're using these technologies that weren't available to everybody 20 years ago,» said H&R Block senior tax professional Valorie Elgar.

The phenomenon of Brooklynization has officially reached the point where the cool kids who couldn't shut up about it 10 years ago now dismiss it as fad.

When Cory Silverberg, a Toronto - based sex educator and author, decided two years ago to write a kids book on human reproduction called What Makes a Baby, he considered two options.

When it was acquired by Dell a little over nine years ago, many in the gaming industry saw it as a lame attempt by a stodgy corporation to buy its way into the «cool kids» club.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

She left her job two years ago to stay home with our kids, which gives us a little more balance.

Six years ago, Kevin Robinson and Mario Tricoci both had kids playing for traveling sports teams.

In response to a question about whether Trump had paid no taxes in recent years and how long the negative tax liability of the late»70s continued, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks emailed: «You must be kidding, that is more than 35 years ago when we had an entirely different tax system.»

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

Seeking that balance inspired her and business partner Jennifer Nashmi to start Kids & Company 15 years ago.

Most kids are native technology users by the time they enter elementary school, with 8 out of 10 5 - to -8-year-olds using mobile devices, compared with only half of all children just two years ago.

Or you thought she does not rock the Speedo like she did 25 years and two kids ago.»

About 35 years ago, power company employee had to stop water flowing into a river in Upstate New York, but, not knowing any better (kids deciding they don't need to know that»cause they'll never use it), the employees choose the two weeks that salmon swim upriver to spawn.

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

That was in the early»80s, and much has changed since then; e.g., both kids out of college and out into the world to make their own fortunes... marriage and two kids for one of them and a new career for the second... a home - based business for me... and death of my husband 6 years ago.

Fifteen years ago, Harvard's Ad Board faced a bright kid who seemed well - meaning despite a serious fuck - up.

A newly minted 2006 Statistics Canada report on women finds that 70 percent of women with kids aged three to five are working mothers, up from 37 percent just 30 years ago.

There are almost 10 times as many kids online as there were seven years ago.»

«Zachary is an eighteen - year - old kid who up until four months ago had led a relatively normal life.

Fifty - two - year - old Angie Geldert left her long - time teaching career to purchase a Children's Orchard kids clothing franchise in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, two years ago.

These are the thoughts I had a year ago right before I started my own business, Ivy Kids LLC.

I'm sure there's a lot of ink on these in today's papers, mainly around proposals to raise the retirement age (which we actually did two years ago, except the Trudeau government reversed it, but now evidence - based policy FTW, as the kids say).

I'm 37 and though we weren't related at all, I thought of her as my adopted grandma (my kids and I regularly visit the nursing home to help with the BINGO game and we «adopted» her 3 years ago).

Just because thousands of years ago people did not know how it all began and came up with a fairy tail to tell the kids — it does not mean its true or you as adult should believe.

I started learning how to trust God for finances many, many years ago, when it was about just trusting him for things like utensils for my kitchen and shoes for my kids.

I remember years ago, in my mid-twenties, before Lisa and I even had kids, confessing something that was rather prophetic to my mentor at the time.

My wife and two kids moved to Southern California six years ago.

Finding # 3 in the Scholastic poll says, «Kids want books in print — as opposed to in electronic format — even more than they did two years ago.

A couple years ago I wrote about my visit to Augustine College, a nano - institution with paltry resources that offers a one - year program of Christian liberal arts for kids who want serious intellectual and spiritual formation before entering college.

I married a Christian man who has changed a lot over the last 14 years, and now does not attend church with our kids and me, since about five years ago or so.

Once, about 7 years ago, I was in this ongoing email dialogue with this kid, Andrew, who was pretty resistant to any biblical worldview but also liked to debate me about it.

From Deb: After 18 years at a large Evangelical church, including five years on the Kids» Ministry staff, my husband and I have recently returned to a small United Methodist Church we attended years ago.

At an enrichment workshop one mid-years engineer declared during a session on life - investment planning, «I'm in work I no longer find challenging — trapped by economic necessity and by career decisions I made twenty - five years ago when I was a mere kid.»

A few years ago, my partner and I were pushing our kid down the sidewalk in her stroller when we were approached by some Mormon kids.

My kids are 17, 15 and 7, and I went back to school two years ago.

Santa Claus is part of a Indocrination program that has been on - going from 500 years ago to maintain the status quo of white supremacy, people grow up totally conflicted when they realize their hard earned dollars is the real Santa claus that they willingly spend and too their kids continue to support the Lie.

«When Jesus came into the world, there was no celebration, nothing was going on,» said Spieker, who was a «pastor's kid» in West Germany 20 years ago and is now a journalist at a television station in Berlin.

Is America society better or worse then 50 years ago... killing parents, killing kids, eating legal drugs like candy because they need to feed on something..

Fifty years ago, Steve Saint was a 5 - year - old missionary kid in Ecuador whose father, Nate, was one of five men trying to reach out to the native Waodani tribe, who were known as merciless killers — of each other, and of outsiders.

When we first started making these shoe boxes several years ago, my girls would ask why we couldn't send them more, like a trunk load of stuff to each kid.

I relocated from DFW to New Hampshire 2 years ago, and I got ta tell you to stock up on water - proof gloves for the kids.

I left the United Methodist Church 2 1/2 years ago, after 20 years in pastoral ministry and 44 years as pastor's kid, pastor's wife, and member.

I lost my father when I was young, and I lost two of my kids seven years ago August 29th.

fyi: my wife and i set up a foundation years ago to help the black kids in the cities — we give and give to help others while JOE BIDEN GAVE A TOTAL OF $ 5,000 IN AN ENTIRE YEAR???? what if - the billions wasted on obamacare would be put into a pool to pay for «the poor» health issues, or those on food stamps who drive new cars / have cell phones / eat at the nice places — cut out that fraud.

Several years ago we wrote a blog post (and a chapter in our travel book) about traveling with kids and we're thinking about writing an updated version with more guidelines and tips that we've picked up as our crew has grown.

I love my «squid» whisk given years ago by one of my quirky college friends — now my kids get a kick out of it too!

I've left the original post on here, so you get to see our kids from almost 6 years ago!