Sentences with phrase «extended family every year»

Christmas dinner is a special time when the whole family gets together — for a lot of people it's the only time they get with their extended family all year long.

We have a big post-Christmas get - together with extended family every year and I've seen people come sick (with no warning to other partygoers).

We are celebrating Christmas over lunch with 17 of our extended family this year.

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«We really do feel that the [TaskUs] team is part of our extended family,» says Kirsty Traill, vice president of customer support at Hootsuite, which has used the company to handle customers» email queries for about a year.

In some cases, family firms should be thinking about «intergenerational partnerships,» which see parents and adult children sharing managerial authority for an extended period — perhaps as long as 10 or 15 years.

Both of the other members of the Sulzberger extended family have also held positions of increasing responsibility at the paper over the past several years as a way of testing their mettle, like a drawn - out, highly - privileged NYT version of the Hunger Games.

Payments can extend up to 25 years and are recalculated each year based on income, family size, and the amount remaining on federal student loans.

$ 7 billion in spending over 10 years for Canadian families, including 40,000 new subsidized daycare spaces across Canada by 2019, extended parental leave and allowing expectant mothers to claim maternity benefits 12 weeks before their due date.

The Harper government had already promised to use the surpluses to allow income splitting for tax purposes for families with children under the age of 18; to extend the fitness tax credit to adults; and, to reduce debt by $ 3 billion a year.

This year's national gatherings will be bigger and better than ever, with plenty on offer for all ages, including a full programme of seminars, extended kids» work, a youth stream, sports and activities, cafés, art workshops, late - night entertainment, a marketplace packed with resources and volunteering opportunities, and a big family funfair!»

Our society is not the same as that of first century Palestine, where families were close - knit and stable and elders were respected and those few who lived to a ripe old age could count on living out their years as an honored member of an extended family.

On the structural side, they advocate such things as paid parental leave, flextime in the workplace, an extended school day and year, housing subsidies, tougher divorce laws, and welfare benefits favoring two - parent families.

For the last 50 years of her life, Maria Durand de Perez was the matriarch of an extended family that straddled the international boundary.

«You decide you're not going to let this child fall through the cracks,» the way her parents and extended family did not let the ten - year - old Jean fall while battling polio.

No we don't know when Jesus birthday is, so tradionally 1 day out of the year most of the world shuts down so we can rejoice in the birth of Jesus with people, friends and extended family, people we don't get to celebrate Jesus birth with everyday.

It's become the favorite of my extended family, who threatens to disown me if I don't make it each year.

«We can not forget to acknowledge our loyal employees who have become part of our extended family, some of whom began their careers at Pete's Fresh Market [more than 20] years ago.»

If there are girls in the family, they invite other girl friends to spend Christmas week with them, and their brothers extend a like invitation to their masculine friends — in an arrangement that makes the big country - houses brim over with fun and jollity from Christmas Eve to New Year's and after.

Earlier this year, Shannon's family extended the restaurant brand into a new location and new concept meant to attract diners for not just special visits, but regular meals or even just a drink or two.

Every year my mom's extended family has a big family reunion.

as for my favorite birthday memory: a couple years ago my extended family rented a house in a remote part of Maine.

I grew up with my extended family in the UK, and my first trip to the UK was when I was 10 years old.

Sponsoring this year has given us the opportunity to welcome and celebrate the success of our extended organic family.

We are simplifying the holidays this year by taking a family trip to disneyland instead of traveling around to hit all the extended families houses!

Our entire extended family, a good friend, and Jackson's guitar teacher all stopped by for a little live music, the yearly Canadian trivia quiz that pits the boys against the girls for patriotic knowledge domination - the girls won this year - and lots of good food, of course.

The kiddos are just getting small gifts in their stockings and my extended family isn't exchanging gifts this year.

this club, under his tutelage, has ruffled a lot of feathers over the years and now it's coming home to roost... his arrogance has rubbed many the wrong way, but winning provided the perfect tonic to cure all ills... whether largely self - created or a byproduct of all the media attention, Wenger seemed to embrace his cult - like status, which would eventually be his downfall... he claimed that his club was different... more of an extended family than a footballing club and only those with what he deemed as «special» qualities could even hope to join such an exclusive club... these «qualities» were hailed by most, especially as the wins kept rolling in... but with exclusivity comes a certain amount of cockiness, which can be somewhat healthy in a highly competitive environment if it comes from a honest place... it wouldn't take long for the fans to embrace their bespectacled former economics professor, going so far as to suggest he could do no wrong... but this fairy tale couldn't last forever

The Stoke - based gambling company headed by the Coates family, who are also owners of the football club, have agreed to an initial six - year stadium naming rights deal while also extending their shirt sponsorship agreement for a further three years.

If Sutcliffe seems unusually devoted to this extended family, it may be because his childhood was punctuated by frequent moves; he attended seven different Kansas City - area schools in a 10 - year span.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

At my old job, the girl I sat beside rented a house with her extended family for a week every year.

My American extended family has decided not to exchange gifts this year, just to commit to spend as many evenings all together as we can.

After living through these earliest years with about as much attachment style parenting as possible, including baby wearing, extended nursing, family bed, empathic listening, and a nurturing, mindful environment, I've been asked to share some ideas about thriving, not just surviving, these early years.

Every year, his parents and other extended family acknowledge my younger daughter's birthday.»

We have a massive extended family and what's been so incredible for me over the years has been watching everyone use the Baba Slings and have such beautiful connection with their little ones.

Story time with extended family is how our thanksgiving ended this year.

Communities around the world are taking the lead of Finland, where the Baby Box has been issued to all families on the birth of a baby for over 75 years, a practice that led to a dramatic decrease in infant mortality, and is now embedded in a societal support for parents and children that extends well beyond the newborn period.

She also seemed anxious about how her friends, extended family and former colleagues at Haugan Elementary — she's teaching at other CPS schools this year — would feel about her yearlong secret.

Maybe you don't want to go out to the big, extended family Christmas at the in - laws this year, but maybe instead you invite your baby's grandparents over for a holiday dinner or ask them to have a special one - on - one bonding day with your baby while you go get your holiday shopping done.

Three months after a 6 - year - old boy was returned to the custody of a Champaign mother who practices extended breast - feeding, the Department of Children and Family Services is asking a judge to order the mother to prohibit the boy from sleeping in her bed.

Up until a couple hundred years ago, people lived in groups that extended far beyond the nuclear family.

Now, more than 11 years later, we are all a big blended, extended family.

In years past, we lived in close community with extended family.

His death was devastating for all of us, but my immense grief, which stretched through my teenage years and into my 20s, was made all the more lonely and isolating because almost no one around me — friends, teachers, many members of my extended family — recognized that I'd lost anyone of importance at all.

This may not be true for every family, but for us — when we don't build in time for each person — toddler, 3 year - old, Mama, Daddy and our extended family members — to check out in whatever way serves each of us every day — the goal of having fun together from dawn to dusk extends farther and farther out of reach until it becomes an imploding joke as each of us unravel in our own way with palm trees and amusement parks in the background.

This 70 year milestone is not just about my grandfather, my father and the extended family of Kolcraft employees around the world.

And while the Kardashian and Jenner family have done a magnificent job of extending their 15 minutes into ten long years (and everyone says they don't have talent.

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Attachment parenting promotes natural birth, genital integrity, extended breast - feeding, baby - wearing, family sleeping, and parents as the primary caregivers the majority of the time in the early years.

To a packed room, they laid out a vision for a whole environment change approach to food in London, with examples of possible activities within the Flagships ranging from extending universal free school meals across all year groups and providing breakfast clubs during weekends, to using school facilities to run holiday cooking clubs for families, and creating «healthy high streets».