Sentences with phrase «done by my grandmother»

Peeling paint, electricity fuse boxes, and bus timetables take the place of the dragons and plum blossoms of the traditional embroidery done by her grandmother.

Not exact matches

«So every piece of press we get is either a regurgitated press release or a story about how we screwed over some grandmother in Topeka followed by «Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.»»

She responded to that offer by calling him a stingy old a ------ and saying that she was glad my grandmother died young, so she didn't have to see her husband become a «greedy b ------ .»

By the time I was 13, however, I looked at my environment and told my grandmother, «I'm going to do something with my life.»

By feminization of kinship we mean that the families of children are increasingly composed of women — the mothers, grandmothers and aunts who do the child care.

She knew her grandmother was sick, but didn't understand why my time with her was cut short, why her normally energetic grandparents couldn't play, or why she only spoke by phone to her daddy who was at home, three hours away.

Don't know that this would absolutely work with panna cotta (but it should), but my grandmother used to unmold Jello desserts by dipping the bowl briefly in hot water.

According to my grandmother Nanny, if you don't know how to cook fried chicken, fried catfish or the holy trinity then by all means you can't call yourself a southern cook!

My grandmother swears by Joe C. Williams pecans and orders them every year, freezing whatever she doesn't use right away.

Born Jan. 20, 1871, in Chihuahua, Mexico, Garcia was orphaned young and brought to the US at age two by his grandmother, Do $ a Jacoba.

But when it comes to what women will be doing, I am encouraged by what Mill Valley photojournalist Paola Gianturco has documented — another global women's movement, the rise of the activist grandmother.

When we kissed the first time I asked if she was previously sexually active, she admitted she was with a man that boarded by her parents, she would wait at night when her parents, her sister, her grandmother, the domestic helper and 2 other borders were asleep and then she would sneak him up to her room and they would have sex, she did this for over two years.

Capturing three generations in the one picture by taking a photo that features a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter for example, makes the age difference become quite clear and in doing so, creates a wonderful family memory on film.

So there is a young mom, 18 actually, very young mom, Darcy Pennington, and she was visiting her grandmother at Royal Liverpool Hospital, and she needed to feed her baby Vincent, and she was approached by a female nurse, and she was told to go to a private room, so that other hospital visitors didn't feel quote on quote «uncomfortable».

I did make an exception in my baby book for the Grandmother's Favorite blanket, inspired by the famous washcloth pattern of the same name in which yarn overs are used to create the edging of a blanket worked from one corner out and back again.

: a Critical History Of Maternity Care by Marjorie Tew Easy Exercises For Pregnancy by Janet Balaskas Home Birth: Comprehensive Guide to Planning Childbirth at Home by Nicky Wesson Morning Sickness: a Comprehensive Guide to the Causes and Treatments by Nicky Wesson Every Woman's Birthrights by Pat Thomas Giving Birth by Sheila Kitzinger Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith Small Becoming a Grandmother by Sheila Kitzinger Not Too Late: Having a Baby After 35 by Gill Thorn Natural Baby by Janet Balaskas Child Birth Doesn't Have to Hurt by Nikki Bradford and Geoffrey Chamberlain Birth Your Way by Sheila Kitzinger The Birth Book by Carol Barbar and Jane Palmer The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel Breastfeeding by Sheila Kitzinger

Do you know that prior to Christianity taking such a strong hold over the birth process, women were surrounded by mothers and grandmothers, children were allow to observe, birth was a celebration not something to be shunned or hidden in a dark room?

For some, it is certainly just fear - mongering by those pediatricians using the formula fed babies» charts or by grandmothers who believe that all babies should be chubby that lead new mothers to believe they have low supply, but there does seem to be an ever - increasing number of babies legitimately labeled as failure - to - thrive with low milk supply labeled the cause.

I've done 3 «phone births», with dads & Grandmother catching baby, 1 in an old hippie bus, 1 by a creek, 4 at my home, a few by myself before my assistant could make it — had a friend write down FHT's, APGARS, times, etc..

my grandparents were a very very hands on parents (i was raised by my grandmother) and honestly i believe it did a disservice to me.

However, testing did not support this hypothesis: The concentration of antibodies in eggs laid by the second generation was unaffected by whether or not the grandmother pigeon received the real injection or a sham injection.

Our grandmothers did this in their kitchen by using the whole animal for multiple purposes, such as making broth.

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.

Outfit Boysenberry Pie Fascinator: Miss Doolittle's Peasant Top: Pin - up Girl Clothing Skirt: Stray Cat Vintage, Fullerton, California Boots: Buffalo Exchange Tooled Leather Purse: I don't remember... Earrings: Belonged to my grandmother Boysenberry Festival Pin and Bracelet: Knott's Berry Farm Calico Pin and Parasol: Made by me

Outfit Pirate Hat: Target (during Halloween) Blouse: Buffalo Exchange Skirt: Pinup Girl Clothing Shoes: Re-Mix Earrings: Aquanetta Brooch: I honestly don't remember... Rings: Belonged to my grandmother Parasol: Made by Me

The beading was done by my great - aunt's sister, my maternal grandmother.

(By the way, if you are looking for sexy nursing bras or at least ones that don't make you think of your grandmother, I recently devoted an entire post to that: Where to Find Sexy Nursing Bras and Maternity Bras).

My name is Rick And I live in a little town called Buncombe I am 6» 2 And I am 235 Lbs And I am 49 years old I was raised by my Grandmother The right way So I do know right form wrong I have been married two times to the wrong women for the wrong reasons.

, Don't Judge Me By The Color Of My Skin Cause I'm What Some Say That I'm Albineo Native American Indian Woman, Divorced, Mother Of Three & A Grandmother Of Three!

Miguel, pleading with the specter of his great - great - grandmother — the one who was ditched by a musician all those years ago — articulates a portion of it near the end of the film: «You don't have to forgive him, but we shouldn't forget him.»

Inspired by her grandfather and guided by her grandmother in heaven, Mary throws herself into the project, and during the process finds herself drawn to Jack (Michael Shanks), a handsome man who loves the lodge as much as she does.

Beginning in medias res with whole swaths of family history alluded to without specifics, Lawrence's Joy (based mostly on Joy Mangano, though her full name goes without mention) becomes an entrepreneur almost by accident after a life unfulfilled to the confidence of her grandmother matriarch's (Diane Ladd, given shockingly little to do considering) assertion of her become a strong, successful woman.

That doesn't sit well with the music - loathing Riveras, especially Miguel's domineering grandmother (Renee Victor), an overly broad caricature who does her part to set the plot in motion by smashing the boy's guitar like a piñata.

Consider a sort of brilliant dinner - table conversation where Royal tells the family he has cancer, they clearly don't believe him (or care), he says he wants to get to know them before he dies, the bitter Chas says he's not interested in that, and Royal pulls out all the stops by suggesting they visit their grandmother.

Either that or their balls were snipped off by their own corporate interests in pleasing the powers - that - be in their own companies — the ones that want to see Jim Carrey do zany physical humor that everyone and their grandmother can understand.

If the films didn't hold my attention, I could stay awake by eluding the cinemagoers who would move surreptitiously closer to me in the dark, row by row, as though playing grandmother's footsteps.

Elsa is strongly influenced by her grandmother and their fantasy world that she doesn't seem to understand the importance of what she should be learning in school.

In other words, if Pamela's grandmother can't figure out how to download the ebook to her new, never - used Kindle lovingly given to her by her doting great grandchildren (a likely scenario), it does not add to Pamela's number of ebooks sold.

(Heck, I just snapped at a friend of my grandmother's over the weekend by calling her horribly gullible for falling for such an obvious likefarming scam despite me sharing on my page hundreds of times to not to do in hopes of intelligent discussions, and I have zero regrets.

«Nothing will ever happen to grandma, you don't have to worry,» the grandmother replies, as it shows what appears to be the dead body of the grandmother surrounded by the creepy main cast of Basement Crawl characters.

His talent did not go unnoticed by his family, and at age eleven his grandmother signed him up for private art instruction.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

As Zoloto recalls, these are inspired by her grandmothers, who used to do traditional embroidery on dresses: «They sewed doll dresses for me, made amazing national Ukrainian embroideries on the cloth... I loved to watch them so much.»

Accordingly, [the mother] and / or [the father] do not have general preferential custodial status over [the grandmother] simply because they are the biological parents of [the boy], but the difference in their blood relationships with [the boy] will be one of the factors considered by the court in determining [his] best interests.

Of course, if you just want to keep it in the family, say so: If all else fails, obfuscating the situation by merely changing the subject should suffice, but don't get defensive or disrespectful; after all, your mother / grandmother / aunt / etc. just want to see you happy, so don't take your singledom too hard.

However nothing — absolutely nothing — in any research by Lamb or anyone else has found that infants «need» more than one caregiver, that they do better with more than one caregiver, that they need a father any more than they need a grandmother or older brother, or that any of these secondary attachments, to the extent they do form, are of equal importance to an infant's having a strong and healthy bond with its primary caregiver mother.

«Although I had been reluctant to do it, my grandmother loved my television visits and I was impressed by the mail we were getting from parents about how best to make art activities available to their children.

I feel helpless as my granddaughter's grandmother as I can not stop what her mother is choosing to do to her because it is not punishable by law but it absolutely needs to be!

The grandmother was concerned that her son (supported by her grandson) had complete control and administration and did not properly account to her

The grandmother was concerned that her son (supported by her grandson) had complete control and administration and did not properly account to her for the rents and laundry machine collections.