Sentences with phrase «of aunts and uncles»

In addition to my parents and siblings, I have a couple of aunts and uncles that are like bonus parents and cousins that are like bonus siblings.

In one week I'd already met dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins and there hadn't been a day yet when we weren't setting off to another relative's house for a reunion.

Many of the secular activists renewed their efforts for a democratic government and many of them ended in prison - including Delijani's parents and some of her aunts and uncles.

I got to see a lot of my aunts and uncles and cousins I don't normally see.

I wasn't very old and I'm pretty sure I annoyed a lot of aunts and uncles with my new - found «discovery» that our sun is actually a star.

Most of my extended family still lives in the region, and I had the benefit of 4 grandparents, 7 sets of aunts and uncles and 20 cousins all living nearby while growing up.

I didn't go to the funeral, Many of my aunts and uncles criticized me for not coming to the funeral, they were harsh.

I never even got to meet my grandparents or most of my aunts and uncles.

The ad starts out with pro football player Delanie Walker sharing a tragic story of his aunt and uncle being killed by a drunk driver.

Cynthia Nixon pops up as their real estate agent niece who is not above making a good buck out of her aunt and uncle who don't realise what a good piece of real estate they have been sitting on for the past 40 years.

Not exact matches

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

The first movie finds Harry discovering he's a wizard and leaving his abusive aunt and uncle to go to the magical school of Hogwarts, where he makes friends and fights off evil.

At the age of 14, she joined the Russian circus with an aunt and uncle.

Other relatives — including grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncle — can come to the aid of student loan borrowers.

Scores of people — moms and dads, aunts and uncles, clergy and friends — waited on one side of a ballroom divided by a rollaway partition while witnesses gave statements to detectives and FBI agents on the other side.

Sariela Bordner left Puerto Rico when she was 8 but her father, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends still live on the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria at the end of September.

«Being listened to, first of all, is a really key thing [for young people] and of course we can all play a role in that: as parents, as friends, as uncles, aunts, teachers and other professionals.

my name is august i have been around lots of people dieing aunts and uncle mom.

By respecting the feelings of that small group of radicals, we have just disregarded the anguish that so many families felt, both from the terror attack on September 11, 2001 and from the loss of countless brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, daughters, aunts, uncles, and sons in the war that followed.

But a boy should have a mom and a dad and a girl should have a mom and dad, and if that can't be then an uncle or an aunt or coach or teacher... God is god and he won't bake cake with you or teach you how to fix things (though it could be your dad baking cake or your mom fixing things; that's not the point, though 9 times out of 10 it will be the other way around.)

1) No one under 18 (maybe even 21) is ever to meet with a catholic church representative without a buddy (a buddy can be a parent, uncle, aunt, sibling over 18, etc.)... at least until items 2 and 3 below are addressed (this is a policy that has been VERY successfully adopted by the Boy Scouts of America)...

Thanksgiving guests included uncles who worked in the nearby coal mines, grandfathers who remembered fighting for the Confederacy, and aunts who were honest - to - goodness relatives of the American hero Daniel Boone.

We'll talk about the way you drove up to see me in the dead of a Canadian winter, staying the night with my uncle and aunt.

As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson's neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable.

His mother, his aunt, and his uncle swamped the two Carson boys with toys to try to make up for the departure of his bigamous father.

By the time kids have been in and out of biological family homes, foster care, bounced around aunts, uncles and grandparents, they ofter have behavior issues and are difficult to place.

Economists and social scientists such as Gary Becker, Linda Waite, Steven Nock and Robert Michaels are uncovering once again the economic and health benefits of marriage and demonstrating what kinfolk such as grandparents, uncles and aunts contribute both to marriage and to the children born to marriages.

It amazed me to watch a child of this environment spring loose and go off to a broad experience, and then come back home only to discover that their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles think the youth has been contaminated with «all that New York thinking.»

If God isn't that reasonable, well, I'll enjoy my time chilling with Nietzche, Buddha, some of my good friends, a few favorite professors, my therapist, my favorite aunt and uncle, Gandhi, some of our founding fathers, and all of those other folks who do not subscribe to Christianity or don't follow it to the letter.

She's just upset — and not only with Atticus, but with hectoring Aunt Alexandra, aloof Uncle Jack, and wannabe fiancé Hank, the young lawyer whom Atticus took on after Jem died of a heart attack.

Nothing until two o'clock, or three, or four, or, one year, even five, when the ravenous aunts had begun to snip at each other in hunger, and the starved uncles were arguing in the living room about how many terms Sigurd Anderson had been governor, and the children — past the wheedling stage, past the whining stage, past the stage of sitting on the kitchen floor and weeping for food — were crouched together on the sofa, dumb with misery.

I suspect that what prompted this tamer version of the movie was not merely the squeamishness of Aunt Martha and Uncle Harry but the fact that the original film had stirred up a surprising and unintended reaction: it caused some people to question the very goodness of God.

My parents were Open Bible pastors, many of my uncles and aunts were missionaries, and one uncle served as the denomination's president.

After the Nazi invasion of Belgium in the spring of 1940, when Alice was only seventeen, she and her sister left for New York, to stay with their aunt and uncle, in hopes of obtaining safety.

But how, you ask plaintively, do you find the kind of yellow sauce that you dripped on your new shirt in Columbus, Georgia, when you went on the picnic with Uncle Harold and Aunt Rhoda, or that black stuff they dipped their lamb in when you ate over to cousins Jimmy and Lorraine's in Paducah, Kentucky last May?

My parents, brothers, fiancé, aunts, uncles, and cousins that live in the area (and those that are visiting from out of town) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.

I boiled the same pot of water three different times because the first time I started it, my mom told me she was going to go straight to my uncle's and wouldn't be stopping for dinner because they were behind schedule, my aunt and cousin figured they'd wait till my uncle's party to eat, and then finally I got to cook the pasta when our friends arrived.

The next night, Roy and I headed over to my Aunt & Uncle's for homemade Persian food where I ate my weight in tahdig and was later surprised with a tiramisu birthday cake served with the most amazing new Häagen - Dazs flavor that I'm ashamed to have forgotten the name of.

I have years of ornaments from my parents, my grandparents, aunts and uncles, my sister and my nephews, and now my husband.

my husband and i traveled to nebraska over thanksgiving to see my father & grandma, along with aunts, uncles & a slew of boy cousins too!

So when my sister and I made plans to go to lunch with my Aunt and Uncle, I immediately thought of throwing together an orange bundt cake and inviting everybody over for dessert after the restaurant.

My aunt and uncle invited us to come and live with them in London as a bit of a safe haven for a short time.

I have a totally new appreciation for all the work that goes into that huge jar of maple syrup my aunt and uncle drop off each spring.

Maybe it's the years of watching my parents and my aunts and uncles jamming out with glasses of wine in hand, somebody stirring a pot of something delicious on the stove, MoTown grooving in the background.

Any photo's that also include buildings are of interest.I remember your Aunt Francis and Uncle Dugan and Butch, they lived down the road from me when I was growing up.

We would trick - or - treat at my aunts and uncles houses, had a massive table for Thanksgiving, and Christmas was two days of different combinations of family members gathering at different houses, and even welcoming those that were as far - flung as, you know, the next county.

At my house, we always have my Uncle's delicious ham, my Aunt's cheesy potatoes, and approximately four different types of taco dips (we cut no corners when it comes to anything taco / nacho - related).

As a matter of fact, this photo of Nanny and me was taken on a Labor Day event at my Aunt and Uncle's home!

Obviously as the generations have grown up and families have expanded and moved around, these holiday celebrations have changed, but one of the biggest changes for me as a kid was when my aunt, uncle and cousins moved to Kentucky.

I have many great memories of Labor Day celebrations at my Aunt Marlene and Uncle Gary's home.