Sentences with phrase «owning families spent»

Children from dog - owning families spent more time in light or moderate to vigorous physical activity and recorded higher levels of activity counts per minute.

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Beth Macy's Factory Man follows John Bassett III, who has spent the last two decades fighting Chinese importers, his competitors, and his own family to save the factories that gave birth to his business empire.

Though the group started as an online community, each attendee spent our own money and time away from family to learn from and share with each other, in person.

For example, if you spent 10 years working in a consulting firm but also spent 10 years working for a small, family - owned business, you may decide to start a consulting business that specializes in small, family - owned companies.

In Our Black Year, Anderson and family — well - to - do black Chicagoans who shared a church with the Obamas — committed to spend 2009 shopping only at black - owned businesses.

The younger Kamprad spent four years with Habitat, the British furniture chain founded by Sir Terence Conran and owned by the Kamprad family until 2009, before moving back to Ikea's Swedish division.

Texas is also where Bezos spent part of his childhood and has family roots; the billionaire owns more than 150,000 acres in the western tip of the state.

«I've been to five funerals already,» Bartleman said Monday, adding that it's been difficult to spend time with her own family.

She loves writing for her own personal beauty, fashion, and fitness lifestyle blog, volunteering for a local dog rescue, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

That said, anyone who enters into marriage brings their own list of things to work through, whether it be a sexual past, family problems, past sins, spending habits, communication deficits or anything else.

I've spent so much of my journey focused on my own nutrition and training, but because so many mommies reach out to me for help with their own kids & family I figured it was about time to expand my posts, stories, and recipes even more.

An amazing meal can simmer to perfection on its own while you're at work, running errands, or spending time with the family.

We'll spend Christmas Eve with extended family, and have Christmas day for our own little family, to relax and enjoy the day rather than rushing around.

He told the clubs months ago that he wanted a raise... the press only serves their own interest... and they keep giving him bad press on how Alexis spends romantic helicopter trips back in Chile... while the truth is that he flew to a part of the country where hundreds of families lost everything in the biggest forest fires in the last 50 years..

She spent her childhood on a Kentucky horse farm owned by her family (she even took four horses with her when she went to the University of Kentucky), and until recently she herself bred hunters and jumpers on her own farm in Florida.

The team's emphasis and buy - in toward meeting the program's established standards, and setting their own standards for what is a «perfect teammate,» has strengthened the family bond that comes with spending a large portion of the fall sports season practicing, playing, traveling and being together.

Bull Cyclone had spent his own years struggling through a hungry country childhood, getting wounded and killing in close combat as a Marine and then coming home to raise a family and till a tiny plot of American soil he had fought for.

Several of those players spent their formative years in Les Ulis, an isolated project of mid-20th Century tower blocks, without its own train station, where thousands of immigrant families from Africa and Arabia arrived in the»50s,»60s and»70s.

I became my own boss after my son was born to have more flexibility to spend time with family.

While I fully expect his nights to be spent snuggled right next to us as he has always done, this seems to be about the age at which (in our family experience) a little bit of space of their own right next to us is loved by all - whether it be for five minutes of play in the day, or five hours of sleep at night.

Now that her own kids have left the nest, she spends her free time babysitting for families around Mountain View, CA where she lives with her husband and mother - in - law.

In other cultures, women often spend their postpartum surrounded by family — their own mother, aunts and sisters.

Now that her own kids have left the nest, she spends her free time baby sitting for families around Mountain View, CA where she lives with her husband and mother - in - law.

It's also for my husband's benefit — a little more income means he can leave a job that makes him unhappy, take a year off and get his masters», or take on fewer hours and spend time with the family or his own hobbies.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

We have no family near us so the majority of our time is spent finding our own routine and traditions, something we both enjoy.

If I spent all my time telling other parents how to raise their kids I would never get anything done for my own family.

Does your family enjoy showering together or is bath time a sacred ritual for spending some time on your own?

Our advice will help you to live a healthy and an active life, to build strong relationships with your children, to create your own family tradition, as well as to spend a fun and more quality time with your kids.

I don't have or want to spend up to 5 times more for an item to support someone else's greed when I have my own family to support.

Whenever family members are available and willing to spend time with the children, parents get an opportunity to get their own needs met.

Gather family and friends for a decorating party, or spend some time in quiet reflection as you work on an ornament of your own design.

We (the kids and I) spent last Tuesday through Friday out on 350 acres of land (affectionately dubbed «The Farm» by the family who owns it) with a group of homeschooling moms and their kiddos (of all ages).

When deciding how to spend my time and resources, I will think about fatherhood as an investment in the next generation and will put my own formerly selfish interests aside for the benefit of this family for which I have taken responsibility.

On Mothers Day I not only feel celebrated by my own family, but I spend a great deal of time thinking of those mothers who I have watched transition into motherhood.

Short of doing the science research and spending another sleepless night reading charts, you need to make a decision on why you want to use family cloth and own it because there isn't a right or wrong answer.

At the end of the day, Newman says, it's more important to spend time with your family or on your own than to fixate on finishing chores.

The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents shows you the way, with information on how to: safeguard your child's well - being with wills, trusts, and life insurance; best weigh your child - care options and decide whether to go back to work; save on taxes with child - friendly tax credits and deductions plus tax - advantaged benefits at work; manage your family's health - care costs; save for long - term costs by setting up a college fund; spend smart and save money at every stage of your child's development; continue to contribute to your own retirement savings

«Every day I see how much time they spend away from their own families to keep mine safe,» she said.

Many of these people spent years raising their own families only to find themselves caring for an older friend or relative once their children had grown up and flown the nest.

«Listening to families across the [New York 19th Congressional] District, it is clear that we need to make significant changes in how this district is represented... I've run successful small businesses, and I'm not afraid to spend some of my own money to make sure that working families from this area finally have a voice in Congress.»

My own view is that a family - friendly government should be looking to maximise the opportunity for parents to spend time with their children and weekends are the best time for that to happen.

Gary and Laura Lavine and another family member spent more than $ 45,000 of their own money on her campaign.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio was fined almost $ 48,000 by the New York City Campaign Finance Board on Thursday for hiring a makeup artist for his family on election night, paying airfare for his son, Dante, to attend an Al Sharpton rally in Washington, D.C. and paying Hilltop Public Solutions, a firm owned by close mayoral adviser Nicholas Baldick, $ 168,000 in improper post-election spending.

Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, spending thousands of taxpayers» funds on renovating a flat 17 miles from his family home, despite already owning three London properties outright.

Moreover, I still deal with science and language on a daily basis, and I am my own boss, able to spend a lot of time with my family.

Before then, though she espoused feminist views and mentored younger women from early on in her career, she was heavily focused on pursuing her own research to earn tenure, and spent her personal time on raising her family — not actively working to make the system more equitable.

Today I own my own yoga studio, I have a family, and I spend my days and nights creating something I love — a life of soul work.

«If you need to spend more time with your own family, and your boyfriend would like to spend the majority of the day at his parents place, splitting up makes perfect sense,» says Friel.

Whether you have your own family or live with friends / roommates, see if the people whom you spend most of your time with want to participate in the same diet with you.