Sentences with phrase «few years my parents»

For a few years my parents ran a small children's home in a bleak position on the coast.

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In 1975, after working in Walmart's real - estate department for a few years, Jim joined his parents» bank, later renamed Arvest Bank Group.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

Then, a few years later, her parents tried to force a sale or an IPO.

A few years ago, Wojcicki and her then - husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, were new parents wondering what to do with an infant in their sleepy bedroom community.

Bill 170 allows parents with kids to remain on a patio until 11 p.m. instead of 8 p.m., gives tourists the right to take a beer bought at the hotel bar back to their room, and liberates businesses open for a few months a year from having to buy a full - year alcohol permit.

When negotiations were getting tough with PayPal a few years ago, Sandberg would call up John Donahoe, the CEO of eBay, PayPal's parent company.

Whether you're a student or parent, years away from college or just a few days away, we have checklists to help you get ready.

Remember a few years back when, instead of heading out into the world, droves of young people either stayed, or returned to live, with their parents, or ended up having more roommates in even tighter quarters to make the rent?

In 1999, at the age of 24, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which a few years later he sold to InterActiveCorp (the parent company of Expedia).

A combination of a spendy lifestyle for a few years, putting both our kids through private schools and university debt free, supporting my parents for a few years, and some gifts to start our kids off in their first homes.

And CNN's newfound relevance may not be fully monetized until a few years from now, when its parent company, Turner Broadcasting System, renegotiates subscription fees with a variety of cable providers.

It's not as bleak as it was a few years ago, but the outlook still isn't as strong as it was when this generation's parents were making their first home purchases.

A few years ago, I met a woman in her 20s who's parents were Christian Missionaries.

Suppose you are the parent of a 12 - year - old girl who you leave in charge for a few minutes while you go out to run errands.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

The children range in age from a few months to five years old, and they have come because their parents must work or look for work.

And the faithful remnant scattered in the pews were too poor, too old, and too few to think of bringing back the statues and the high altar for which their parents had sacrificed countless ginger drops and ice cream sodas so many years ago.

Islam, like its parent faith (s), claims that the Earth was created in about a week a few thousand years ago.

Church member John Holcombe, among the massacre's few survivors, invited the public to attend the funeral of his pregnant wife, Crystal, 36, and three of her children, Greg, 13, Emily, 11, and Megan, nine; his parents, 60 - year - old Bryan and Karla Holcombe, 58; a brother, 36 - year - old Marc Holcombe, and Marc's 18 - month - old daughter, Noah.

The fan says she's spent the last few years having to pause most American movies so she can explain what's going on to her parents.

This thinking did so much harm to both the parents and the children, and now a few years later they are still recovering.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

There are some exceptions, and each year a few young people (or their parents) select a college that they expect will provide a distinctively Christian environment.

there was a story a few years back, when i was in the army, when the army sent 100 soldiers behind enemy lines to bring back body pieces of israeli soldiers, just so the parents could have a place to bary their child.

Now, after a few years of trial and error, and after realizing my readership includes astrophysicists, anthropologists, Hebrew scholars, actual pastors, and actual parents, I've learned to step back and learn from the best.

And although my husband and I talked for years about sharing parenting responsibilities, he took only a few days off from work after each of our children was born.

My parents came from Poland a few years before I was born, and Thanksgiving isn't really a thing over there so they only kind of picked up on it after they moved here.

Ryan has noted that we might go a little overboard, but I love taking the time to think of something my parents or brother would love, and surprising them a few times a year.

I have watched some of my best friends lose their parents or loved ones unexpectedly in the last few years or survive horrible medical diagnoses or accidents that it really does make me grateful for the life that I do have.

And we always get quite a few trick o treaters (apart from the year after my parents gave out fruit).

In the last few years, the bulk of my friends have become parents.

My parents have made pickles every summer for a few years now but I was never highly involved in that process.

For the past few years we have been taking care of our elderly parents: first my Mom, and now Mr. Flavor Mosaic's Mom.

But then, there were more than a few magical moments on each trip where I really saw what my parents had been trying to show us year after year after year — that there are some really awesomely gorgeous places in America, steeped with history and beauty — that outside of the craziness of every day life there is a world where none of the petty stuff matters, and what's really important is being together as a family appreciating some of the more basic pleasures of life.

After Colleen and I got married, we ended up doing two Thanksgivings per year — one at her parent's house, and one that we would host for my parents a few days later.

It's been almost a year since I was getting ready to move in with my parents for a few months.

I've seen my parents struggle these past few years and wanted my son to enjoy gf bread.

I know a lot of other parents feel this way, but as the years go by and they keep getting bigger it is just so weird to think in a few short years he will be a grown up!

Squeezable Sauces: My parents gave us Terrapin Ridge «s Spicy Chipotle sauce a few years ago and we became addicted immediately.

Last Sunday, my 93 - year - old grandpa passed away and so I took an unexpected, last - minute flight across the country to attend his funeral and then spend a few extra days with my parents.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

We had the advantage of 10 years of couple time before we had kids and I know that our marriage is resilient enough to withstand a few years where nighttime parenting might need to cut into our couple time.

There are only a few parents of 3 year olds in the PreK who can go along on trips, so I ended up driving other people's kids every time.

I lived there (OKC) for a few years before I had kids, but never thought of it as a very AP / natural parenting - friendly sort of place.

Trystan and Biff came onto the parenting scene a few years ago, after their story to adopt Chaplow's niece and nephew was picked up and shared by parenting podcast «The Longest Shortest Time ``.

Something I've been hearing more and more about over the past few years is that people — specifically parents — are asking friends and relatives to refrain from buying things for their children for the holidays or birthdays, but instead they are asking for experiences.

So far in 2017, aside from contemplating the end of democracy as we know it, we've learned a few things about parenting trends that could very well set the tone for the rest of the year.

The Abbey offers so many cool New Years Eve options for families including a Half Night of Fun where the teens and children get away from the parents for a few hours to celebrate on their own with pizza and activities while the parents go to dinner or just relax at one of the many amenities this resort offers.