Sentences with phrase «like grandmother»

I grew up in a home of very successful business women, my mum & sister both, but I myself crave and am trying to be more like my grandmother.

My favorite are probably two pieces of antique furniture from my great Aunt Julia who was like a grandmother to me: a rocking chair and a magazine stand with intricate detail on it.

Wallpaper is making a comeback in a big way and there are many great prints and contemporary styles available that don't look like your grandmother's house!

The kids nodded and smiled politely and I had the secret realisation that I sound like my grandmother!

In my experience (I was also raised in older homes) wood ceilings weren't «typical» except maybe of course on porches, upstairs attic spaces or back rooms to homes that maybe weren't actual living spaces, but maybe where storage would be or perhaps, like my Grandmother's centennial farmhouse, where her wash tub and such would be.

Sounds like your Grandmother and mine had much in common, content hearts focused on the Lord Jesus and on others.

I am excited about your adoption and feel like a grandmother awaiting my first great grandchild...

That is the first time I've heard someone sing like my grandmother, who by the way sang for the Boston Pops and in church.

I never did like that grandmother.»

Fortunately he's never woken up in the middle of the night to find me screaming and trying to strangle him (or the bikies wanting to string him up for represented our street at a council meeting to prevent them Fort Knoxing their new premises) because I just can't take it anymore (like my grandmother did to my grandfather once, my sister and I just lay wide - eyed in the dark listening, quite the dramatic way to spend your school holidays).

A guest bedroom is a perfect illustration of De Bastiani's goal of «creating a scheme incorporating traditional silhouettes without feeling like your grandmother's house — a youthful traditional, if you will.»

Love looks like my grandmother who always gave hers unconditionally.

I think ever woman needs one like her grandmother or mother had:D It will help her remember all the careful «sifting» that went into those delicious biscuits.

But, like my grandmother always said — let nothing go to waste!

«I felt like my grandmother and parents had taken the ultimate risk in coming to a new country.

«They looked at me like a grandmother figure.

«I try to do what they do at home, just like my grandmother did.

Those thoughts evolved into my pursing a career in nursing where I was able to help others like my grandmother had been helped.

So it can be irritating when they're trying to read through yours to get a good sense of your skills as well as desire to work for them, and all they get in return is»... and like my grandmother always says, you can't make anything of yourself unless you be yourself...» In other words, while it's nice to know that you listen to your grandmother's words of wisdom, it really doesn't have a place in your cover letter.

For a young Nevada male that drives like his grandmother, that could be a significant money - saver.

While travel insurance is great for the basic stuff that gets misplaced, lost, or stolen, it's not as great for specialized items like the grandmother's wedding ring you plan to take to your son so he can propose.

Like my grandmother always said...» Little Joshie, don't throw low - probability high damage function to the winds.»

And so, I often feel like my grandmother is the image, in my mind, of the past.

Like her grandmother, Pitseolak, before her, Annie was an instinctive chronicler of her times.

She looked like a grandmother — a Saturday Evening Post grandmother.

If your cats are anything like my grandmother's 7 felines (yes, 7) you'll probably relate to buying them a comfy new cat bed (which comes in a box), only for them to turn their noses up at the expensive bed and sleep inside the cardboard box instead.

Is that «pushing tech» or more like my grandmother making a quilt out of scrap cloth?

Also means that those who do, can, like my grandmother, who will be delighted to hear this.

It makes the opposition AI drive like your grandmother might if taking a bus full of six - year - olds to Sunday school.

«The first one is cozy, like a grandmother's room; the second one has a contemporary décor, a lot of wood and high ceilings,» she says.

Rather than covering new computers with plastic like my grandmother's sofa, I'm very happy giving computers a last chance with juice - box hands building trucks on legos.com.

It wasn't just the candied lips (the unabashed color highlighting his mother's natural pout), it was the dress as well — so tight it made her breathless, like his grandmother when she climbed the stairs.

I really don't know how you get the miles they say without driving like your grandmother.

I wanted to be a teacher, like my grandmother.

Today, thousands of older singles, like my grandmother, have found consolation and connection on dating platforms designed for a mature crowd.

I feel like I sound like my grandmother, but it really does.

Because much like my grandmother's letter (which I still have not read), the moment I post the last photo where there is a chance he may appear is the moment when I have to accept he is really gone.

Looking like my grandmother's couch: Probably not the look Julianne Hough was going for when she put on this matchy - matchy ensemble.

To find slacks that don't cover my shoes or skirts that don't look like a Grandmother would wear I usually head to the store's Petite section.

I wear black tights with my brown boots and someone's old scarf that smells like a grandmother and a floral headband for good measure.

So when I decorate for christmas, even though I don't decorate like my grandmother did, there is a lot of nostalgia floating through my mind.

Yup, the days of this fabric looking like your grandmother's doily are over.

I'm not even sorry — I smell like a grandmother but in that sort of calm and safe way and my skin has never been clearer or cleaner.

No one wants to look like their grandmother dressed them in the dark (or at all).

Also like your grandmother's sea - shell planter.

There is nothing like a grandmother.

It smells amazing, the rose water scent is offset by the sweetness of marshmallow so that it doesn't end up smelling like your grandmother's linen closet.

Not that I mind, cause it makes me feel like my grandmother is in the room, but... is it just my playback, or are others having «questo problemo»?

It's ok to fry food in healthy fats like lard, butter (grass fed if you can afford it — not margarine), beef tallow, (again like your grandmother did), or coconut oil rather than artificially processed vegetable oils like corn, safflower, soy, canola.

I don't know whose they are, since the handwriting doesn't really look like my grandmother's.