Sentences with phrase «mother writing to me at»

All too familiar and I could easily relate to this mother writing to me at one o'clock in the morning... desperate for sleep.

Not exact matches

«My dad was keen, but it was my level - headed mother who finally convinced me that, at 18 and about to enter medical school, I was in no position to take on a seven - year - old,» she writes.

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

Meanwhile, I have gravitated to a certain type of mommy - blog: one written by a stay - at - home mother, lovingly grateful to her provider - man, capably in charge of every detail of her children's lives and home: the Angel in the House, as we might have sneered back in English 101.

Announcing the death of Alfie, who has been at the centre of a court battle over whether to withdraw life support treatment, his mother wrote on Facebook: «Our baby boy grew his wings tonight at 2:30 am.

In one of the notes he wrote to the memoir prepared by his mother Agnes, Fr Holloway tells the story being stopped from doing a doctorate by his tutor at seminary.

In comparison to the New Testament where Paul's letters were written starting 15 years after Jesus» ascension, the first gospel, Mark written 25 years after (Peter was the source of Mark), Matthew who was an eye witness at 35 years, and Luke 35 years as a careful Roman / Greek trained historian who interviewed living eye witnesses such as Mary, mother of Jesus.

Her answers to my series of questions were both astonishing and revealing: She confirmed for me that her academic team did not speak to a single patient, medical analyst, associate, or worker of Mother Teresa's before writing their paper against her; nor did they examine how all her finances were spent; nor did they speak with anyone at the Vatican involved with her sainthood cause, or consult the Vatican's medical board which certified the miracle attributed to Blessed Teresa.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

writes at kristenannjames.com, edits for P&R Books, mothers three spectacular little girls and spends her days trying to make her church - planting husband laugh.

Similarly, «playing God» pairs with the young gay protagonist of the video sitting in a pew with his mother, the same mother who harasses him until he shuts the door in her face at «paraphrase a book written thirty - five - hundred years ago,» and who aggressively makes the sign of the cross (to the lyric «preach hate») before storming out («holy water... poisoned») when her son brings his soon - to - be spouse home for dinner.

My aunt spoke of her dad's love for her mother, who currently lives with demetia, and for his three daugthers; she wrote to me about his kindness and thoughtfulness towards acquaintances such as the security guard at his building, his joyful disposition towards life, and his caring attitude.

In the spring of 1997, around the time that Hughes, who worked as a salesman for a video company, abused three boys at once in his office — he molested the boys one at a time while the other two watched — the mother of another victim was folding her son's underwear and putting it in a drawer when she saw, hidden among the clothes, a letter written by her son to his girlfriend.

«Evidence shows that information needs to be written and targeted towards fathers in order to reach them; generalised information aimed at parents tends only to reach mothers.»

Melissa Clark Vickers has been an LLL Leader for 26 years, mother of two, grandmother of three, soon to be four, and writes and edits for Family Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping families — especially those with children with special health care needs — at the center of health care.

Updated February 2016 Naomi Stadlen, London, UK Photo: courtesy Paula Hinson Mothers often write to say how they feel at their first La Leche League Series Meeting, that they have «come home.»

Still, whether we're the «good mommy» that Ayelet Waldman wrote about in Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace — the mom who «remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children... and enjoys all their games» — or just a good - enough mommy, we all know what being a mom involves.

Singer Skye Whatley, of Beverly Hills, was selling tapes of lullabies that she wrote and recorded for mothers to play at naptime occasionally, instead of singing.

While certainly we have come a long way since Dr. Benjamin Spock's relaxed words of wisdom, I realize I probably wouldn't be writing this article if it weren't for the way he first advocated for mothers more at a time when parents desired to be heard.

I have written in the past about the diminishing returns of an ever increasing C - section rate and predicted that there would be a point at which the risks to mothers would outweigh the benefits to infants.

i got in the shower & let the water meet my tears & something within me said - «this is the process sokhna, open to the process, open to the process»... that was the light... my mantra became «this is the process», & i returned to the bedroom... maria took my hands, looked me in the eyes & said «this is the process, sokhna...» i knew i was on my way... i rocked, squatted & allowed... maria checked me again & i was softening enough for maria to open the cervix the rest of the way... soon enough maria had massaged the cervix completely open & she told me to push... when she said this i filled with brilliance - i wanted to push, i wanted to feel it, i wanted to see wayana... in just a few pushes wayana kamalah lioneye ra was born - i held her as she came out - i looked at this little one & she looked at me & i told her i was her mother... kayenn came over & i saw a baby in him... this natural birth birthed my heart... i suddenly knew what kayenn needed, what i needed & what wayana would need... the placenta came soon after & maria helped me to bed... i really just wanted to look at my 2 babies - to stand over them & beam light, gratitude & promises of infinite love & support... i wanted a natural birth, i had a natural birth & it continues to this day... i am writing my birth story on wayana's 15 month celebration...

Not surprisingly, what they learned confirmed what I had already told them about the concerns of moms, concerns which motivated me to convene my own «roundtable» fifteen years ago by launching MomsTEAM.com; concerns that I wrote about at length in my book, «Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports,» especially in a chapter I called, «A Mothers Voice: The Missing Piece of the Youth Sports Puzzle:»

The topic is controversial at present, and controversy is antithetical to a mother's heart and far removed from my vision and purpose in writing The Mother's Compmother's heart and far removed from my vision and purpose in writing The Mother's CompMother's Companion.

She wrote, «When we look at the animal kingdom we do not see a mother leaving her child to fend for themselves overnight.

Friday, August 31 at 4:47 PM: Pam N. from California wrote: «I would like to let other birth mothers know that i have had the great pleasure of being reuinited with my daughter after 18 long years.

Thursday, July 12 at 4:6 AM: carol garratt from England wrote: «Great site, well done, keep up the good work, nice to know other people feel the same as me, people need to know the pain and anger we feel as birth mothers.»

One mother who had pump - weaned but whose toddler continued to breastfeed when they were together writes, «when I got to that point with [my daughter], she just stopped getting milk at daycare.

Written by best - selling parenting and children's book author and mother of six, L.R.Knost, «Whispers Through Time: Communication Through the Ages and Stages of Childhood» is a rethinking of mainstream parenting's perception of normal childhood behaviors coupled with simple, practical approaches to parent / child communication at each stage of development from tots to teens.

Sarah Bessey writes at www.sarahbessey.com, where she has become an accidental grassroots voice for postmodern and emerging women in the Church on issues from mothering to politics and theology to ecclesiology.

Mothers often write to say how they feel at their first La Leche League Series Meeting, that they have «come home.»

As each guest arrives or at sometime during the party, ask each guest to write down some helpful hints, baby advice, words of encouragement to the mother or the baby to be, including their name and their relationship to the mother and the baby to be.

Ellie writes regularly about mothering and being an older (positively geriatric) first time mother on her own blog Mush Brained Ramblings, for Huffington Post, as well as at Mumsnet, Midlife Mothers, What to Expect, Breastfeeding Matters and Cambridge News.

Those at the meeting held at the Cosmos Club «believe a balance of legislative and grassroots outreach [to mothers 21 to 35 years old and students] is imperative to the stability of their industry; however, the association members continue to struggle to initiate research and develop a clear - cut plan to defend their industry,» an unidentified participant wrote.

«Support for a mother's delayed return to paid employment, or return at part - time hours, may help more mothers achieve their breastfeeding intentions,» the researchers wrote.

Tonight sees a gathering of 150 influencers at the House of Lords, organised by Malaria No More UK to mark UK action and global progress on malaria, shortly after the UK premier of «Mary & Martha», the new film written by Richard Curtis about two mothers who unite to save lives after losing their own sons to malaria.

Case in point: as this is written, Tyler, his mother and grandfather (that would be me) are preparing to drive into Manhattan to be Health Bell's guest at lunch.

«As a mother with two teenage boys who is the CEO of a rapidly growing business, I have come to the conclusion that I must spend more time at home than my service in the Legislature would allow,» she wrote in the letter.

Present at Wednesay's press conference were Gwen Carr and Constance Malcolm, the mothers of Garner and Ramarley Graham who wrote an op - ed Monday in the Daily News accusing Cuomo of «backtracking» on his promise to sign the order.

Toluwani Eniola writes about new mothers detained by hospital authorities for their inability to settle bills Sweeping the floor of the female ward at the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, the Imo State capital, Mrs. Chinyere Nlemuwa cut the picture of a cleaner in the hospital.

And since the mother language of most PhD students is not English, well, they want to get better at academic writing as non-native English speakers.

«We have the tools at this moment to further decrease incidence of new infections, but we need to apply these tools more effectively to reach the undiagnosed and untreated mothers,» Fogarty Director, Dr. Roger I. Glass, and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, wrote in a foreword to the supplement.

Before she died, her mother, Camilla, was at last able to put her intelligence to use, writing a book about the family's history and genealogy.

The young author learned to read at 3 and was writing stories under her mother's guidance at age 4.

Today, besides writing and her work at Omega Institute, she lends her time to social and environmental causes, and is an avid walker, cook, gardener, friend, mother, grandmother, and homebody.

It was brought to my attention by my mother dearest that she finds it «annoying «when I write «Hello Lovers» or «Happy (insert day) Lovers» at the beginning of all of my blog posts so I'm going to attempt to switch things up (because mom knows best after all... right?).

Most of the «don't» articles seem to be written by twenty or thirty somethng writers who cringe at the thought that their mothers might actually be people who are interested n beauty, fashion and just might still be intested in attracting the interest of the opposite sex.

Though he'd even written to his mother about his other recent dating prospects, he would not have been at all eager to inform her that he was interested in a young white woman.

Anything from keeping my spider plant from croaking during the winter to finishing a writing project; from directing a new MS patient towards the resources she needs to take better care of herself to beating my mother at canasta (no easy feat, trust...

Anyway, from the jump, Harding's chain - smoking mother LaVona (a brilliantly snake - like Allison Janney in a part written for her) pushed her, all but forcing a coach (Julianne Nicholson) to take her at 3 years old, which might have turned out OK if it wasn't for Harding's fondness for Gillooly, a local doofus several years her senior.

But Lorene Scafaria, who wrote and directs «The Meddler,» has apparently hoped to do just that, to bring in an audience interested in seeing how she coped with her father's death, or rather how her mother dealt with her own husband's demise; her rising career as a scriptwriter, her mother's generous donation to a young friend to enable her to have a classy wedding ceremony, and her mom's volunteering at a hospital in L.A..