Whenever reader Kumi Banerjee wants to transport herself back to childhood
summers visiting her grandparents in Calcutta, she makes a batch of shingaras.
Not exact matches
Many
summers, my mother and father would take my sisters and me on a 600 - mile journey to
visit our
grandparents in Mexico City.
The furnishings, kitchen, dishes, and decor was all in mint vintage condition making me feel right as home, just like I did many years ago when I used to
visit my
grandparents every
summer.
There is a part of California that has always been subtly homey to me; My
grandparents owned a small farm in the northern part of the state for most of my life, and I would
visit over the
summer to chase the chickens around.
I'm raised on a farm in Germany and we had 2
grandparents living w / us and in the
summer an aunt came always to
visit.
I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent
summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling,
visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every
summer.
My mother and
grandparents used to take my brother and I to the matsuri every
summer we
visited Japan.
When we weren't
visiting our
grandparents, our
summer days were spent with trips to the pool, eating fruit salad, fried chicken fingers and lemonade between swims and diving contests.
My high school boyfriend actually did end up
visiting my
grandparents» stable one
summer.
Travis (Johnny Orlando) and his sister, Whitney,
visit their
grandparents for the
summer and stumble upon the evil plan of a greedy land developer (Kelsey Grammer) to steal the land of the town's longtime residents.
Sure, the main character is just a nondescript kid named Tai who just so happens to end up spending his
summer vacation saving the tiny island he's on
visiting his
grandparents from all sorts of evil during his stay.
Though Bearden remained an established New Yorker, annual childhood
summer trips to
visit grandparents who remained below the Mason - Dixon line supplied provocative fodder for his imagination and nourished a lifelong connection to the South.
Then during holiday or
summer vacations from school, children can travel to the non-custodial parent's home or a
grandparent's home for an extended
visit time that can last days or weeks.