Sentences with phrase «am a grandparent of»

If you are the grandparent of a special needs grandchild, you are in for a long haul.

Between my husband and myself, we have 4 kids and we're very blessed to be the grandparents of 8 beautiful grandbabies.

Dan has five children and is a grandparent of thirteen.

Being a grandparent of eight keeps me extremely busy.

«Teresa and I joked that we're grandparents of these pups.»

Zoosk and Are You Interested are the grandparents of the social discovery movement.

Cruise control is the grandparent of all driver aids.

They had hundreds more, and they were the grandparents of the gods and of human beings.

If you are a grandparent of a child or any other person concerned with the care, welfare and development of the child / ren, you can apply for a parenting order for the child / ren.

Their three children were grown, and Julia and David were the grandparents of four children.

Having raised two children who were in elementary school about 25 years ago I now am a Grandparent of a grandson in kindergarten who is currently at Nesbit Elementary School.

Not exact matches

If you're unfamiliar, the tech in question is the same as what your parents or grandparents once used to get TV: An antenna that picks up the free broadcast shows that are sent via high transmission tours by the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.

While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

Born in Hertfordshire, England, and raised by Quaker grandparents, Grantham is co-founder of investment firm GMO (Grantham, May, Van Otterloo), which he helped establish shortly after earning his MBA at Harvard University.

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

His name is on the honour roll at Aquinas College for academic excellence, which I brought to the attention of my grandson on grandparents day in May of this year.

He introduced himself and gave me two gifts — one was a piece of art from Nvgorod, the village where my grandparents were from in Belarus, and the other was a bag of dirt from that same village.

Canadians who support a parent or grandparent who is 65 years of age or older, and living with them, can no longer make a claim.

«Parents and grandparents want to help their children or grandchildren pay for school, and the last thing they want is for them to be made worse off because of their own financial distress or death.»

He's been married to the same woman for 28 years, and is the father of two children and grandparent to three more.

It's human nature that we estimate our longevity based on the longevity of our parents, or grandparents.

«I, myself, was born in a family of migrants; my father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, left for Argentina and met the fate of those who are left with nothing.

In the weak economy, many grandparents have prided themselves on being the economic pillars of their families.

He said he's heard more than one story of grandparents continuing to work full time when they might have retired so they can help out with basic expenses like strollers, cribs and child care.

Instead of placing a lot of importance on leaving a big inheritance for future generations, she said many grandparents want to be the person in the family that people can turn to now — whether it's to help out with college tuition or get that must - have holiday gift.

Small, who remembers his grandparents and parents teaching him early lessons of money management when he was a boy, said it is never too early to open an account.

The prospect of help from grandparents looks better; more than half say they're either saving or planning to start saving, according to research from Fidelity Investments.

Part of the problem is likely their age — many are in their 70s or 80s, prompting some observers to wryly comment that Zuckerberg's testimony reminded them of helping their grandparents with their computers.

The legends and lore of these dynastic families can cast a long shadow over members of the next generation; they are expected to repeat the successes of their parents and grandparents and are always seen in relationship to their family legacy.

This is different for everyone, but if you are grandparents living in the same state as your family, the decision to move across the country for a tax break could shake out to mean a loss of being more available for quality time.

Like their grandparents, with whom they often are close, they have come of age in a time of war as the norm and a sluggish rebound from a financial crisis.

Of course, the downside of that is that teens don't necessarily want to be using the same messaging and socializing tools that their parents and grandparents are usinOf course, the downside of that is that teens don't necessarily want to be using the same messaging and socializing tools that their parents and grandparents are usinof that is that teens don't necessarily want to be using the same messaging and socializing tools that their parents and grandparents are using.

Even if both you and your parents were born outside of Ireland, but one of your grandparents was born there, then claiming citizenship is simple.

When parents and grandparents started using the platform, the media giant was barely recognizable as the mature form of its adolescent predecessor.

But it does not recognize the amazing diversity of ways that Canadian families come together to raise their children - the grandparents who spend their retirements pushing strollers, the parents who juggle shifts so that someone is always home for the kids, the single parents and blended families and other complexities of modern life.

On the surface, it's easy, swearing about expensive pretzels and beanie hats and urgent people to take their grandparents to market sitting on the handlebars of their bikes while enjoying $ 1 million in the bank or similar.

Wendy's love of travel was ignited at a very early age when her grandparents brought back trinkets and tales from India and Thailand.

The low rate environment makes me wonder what my grandparents would have made of it all, having retired back in the mid 1980s when their term deposits were earning 18 % p.a!

When you were a child, did you receive shares of stock from your parents, grandparents, or other family members?

Inflation is why the older generation say that the first years of paying a mortgage are the hardest, and why your dear old parent's or grandparent's final payment on their mortgage was doubtless a laughable tenner.

Campaigns included an initiative started by college students called «Students with Puerto Rico» and the «Mirta & Angelo hurricane relief» — a campaign created for a woman's great - grandparents, 80 and 84, who are living «in the shell of a home» they have left south of San Juan.

At CancerCare, a grandparent whose grandchild has been diagnosed with cancer is eligible for any of our caregiving groups, whether in - person, over the telephone or online.

His great grandparents or his parents were just as ignorant as all of you here.

Where Obama's grandparents lived it was a legal and accepted way of life and had been for centuries.

so being a grandparent doesn't have to be the consolation prize - just another begatter in a long history of begattin»

My maternal grandparents» sky - blue clapboard farmhouse never had air - conditioning, and yet it was my favorite place to spend part of every summer as a child.

To make a long story short, they were part of the Belgian underground in Leige My grandparents were finally arrested after their neighbor turned them in.

I have long felt that the essence of Jesus» teachings is the best way to serve God is to be a good parent, a good child, a good grandparent.

We all had our favorite areas; such as pediatrics, the newborn nursery, the E.R. Personally, I loved spending time in geriatrics with the elderly, (they reminded me of my grandparents, to which I was alway's very closed to and I had not been able to see in a very long time, as they lived in another country and I missed them so much).

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»