Sentences with phrase «thing as a vacation»

In most areas, Paul allowed others to make their own choices, but some «spiritual fathers» today want families to check with him regarding such things as vacation planning, job transfers, financial management, and child rearing.

Anything less than having the child 24/7 may feel like not enough for the separated parent, but there's no such thing as a vacation from parenting, the Time article says.

Not exact matches

The old way of vacations, because it was seen as the «amount of days off that I have to use before they expire» was taken with an overwhelming sentiment of entitlement, and many things fell through the cracks when a team member went off on vacation for a week.

When entrepreneurs go on vacation, is there really such a thing as unplugging completely?

Game Breaker But the most important thing to do, finally, is to take a vacation from playing games as well as from work this summer.

Besides doing things that aren't really jobs, such as using Ebates for cash back to using credit card rewards to earn free vacations, there are tons of other things I have done in order to make extra money.

These would be for things such as homes, furniture, special vacations, education, vehicles, and so on.

It allows you to do the things that really matter to you such as going to your kids» little league games, school plays, reading, having coffee with friends, vacations with your spouse, or whatever else it is that you value highly.

It can help you pay down your debt, it can help you stop living pay check to paycheck, and it can help you save for the things that you have always wanted, such as a fun vacation for your family.

Similarly, when a friend hails her low interest rate or her airfare or her concert tickets as a God thing, it's nearly impossible to get away with asking if she really needs a new house or a vacation or yet another Dave Matthews experience without seeming to rain on God's parade.

And you go, but even while on vacation, you feel as if things just aren't right.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

And because it's June, I, as well as you, might feel things ending (school) and beginning (vacation, new jobs, moves and more).

A few years later, on one of my first vacations with my husband to be, I remember having a wonderful and simple crab lunch at Café de Turin in Nice, along with a nice bottle of white wine served in really small and thick wine glasses, that give the impression they've been chosen specifically to give an understated feel to the experience, so as not to feel too fancy about the whole thing.

At the time, I was moping that the family vacation to Rome — a place I imagined did a fine job with these throughout tomato season — we'd been trying to take for as long as we'd been a family had gotten postponed again due to all of those real - life things that have the nerve to get in the way of a good time.

This dish occurred to me as I looked through my fridge after we were home from vacation and the only thing in there was some cheese, left over broccoli and a package of smoked sausage.

I don't understand why you and his father feel like you decide on when he can and can't take his vacations?!? Now sure as a married couple this should be a joint decision when possible, but withholding sex and love and forcing him to do things is horrible.

In my previous life as a certified travel snob, I had not yet come to the realization that a vacation and traveling can be two separate things, and that one is not better than the other and each has its value.

Most families» vacation budgets are stretched thin as it is, so adding travel insurance for baby onto the already extensive list of things to plan and buy is no fun.

Taking your kids on vacation can be one of the most positive things you can do to improve your bond as a family.

Use half the pockets for collage materials (kids this age like gluing things together and working with different textures), such as colored glue sticks, feathers, cut - out shapes, vacation postcards, pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and pom - poms.

If your divorce means, as it often does, that you're taking a financial hit and your kids can no longer have every toy they want or take expensive vacations, let them know you'll still do lots of fun things together.

In fact — we never told anyone this — there was a day once on vacation when we nearly rented a Jet Ski, sans experience, sans even any real desire to Jet Ski, just on the conviction as we gazed across the harbor from our cabana that if we were to choose this day to make our Jet Ski debut, they would choose this day to do that thing they sometimes do, arcing up out of the surf at our side and keeping pace with us, singling us out as among the very crème of enlightened humanity.

But the mind learned to make these basic connections long before the modern world came up with things such as clocks and calendars — and final exams and vacation schedules and other deadlines.

Unlike last month, things in the lab have actually decided to work, miraculously, and as I take off for vacation Jeff is a little less stressed around me; he even smiles a bit more.

Without these two technologies that you'll hear about in a moment, there would be no such thing as human embryonic stem cell research, and President Bush could have enjoyed his summer vacation in Crawford without having to agonize over the baptism of the infamous 64 stem cell lines.

Whether you're aiming for six - pack abs by vacation, trying to incorporate gym time into your daily routine, or just looking for some fun new moves to shake things up, core work can be as challenging as it is beneficial to a healthy body and lifestyle.

I like to plan things to keep me going as well like a beach vacation, a photo shoot, or a competition.

Planning a vacation is always an exciting thing but undoubtedly almost always comes with added stress, as well.

The truth is that this blog is really just a fun side hustle and hobby for me, so I'm not going to beat myself up over missing a post or two (or three, or four, as has been the case lately) because of vacation, seeing friends or other things going on in my life.

I do tend to buy things as needed as we get into a new season (like last week when I realized we had no t shirts or shorts for a planned beach vacation or spring), but I try to wait for sales before purchasing.

With Marianne vacationing this month, I'm trying to stay as focused as possible to stay on top of things, which, fortunately, seems to be working!

Yes, there are plenty of downsides that come along with freelancing full - time — including a few of the things I touched on, such as quarterly taxes, not getting paid vacations, and needing to fund your own benefits.

From the smallest of things like a smile, a touch to the shoulder, a nod of respect and acknowledgement, sharing one's lunch, or a light to see with, to bigger things like using one's vacation time to volunteer as a nurse in a war zone halfway across the planet.

I would see it as being set for retirement, and thus being able to spend more out of current income for things like vacations.

There are lots of inconveniences to dating a biker, such as having to take your car because he probably doesn't own one, not going out to fancy dinners or taking pricey vacations, but one thing is for sure, you will never have to do any home repairs again.

well im a widow, im raising my two granddaughters, i like daytrips, and vacations, and love, things that i miss, and would like to spend with someone that would be as special as my loved one

A mash - up of Pinterest and Instagram, or «Pinstagram» as Exton calls it, members can post pictures of things like their latest vacation or what they're having for lunch instead of writing a long - winded profile, allowing the photos to speak for the user.

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For fun I enjoy many things, such as movies, eating out, cooking, reading, putt - putt, bowling, vacations, house hunting...

If you want to talk about money discuss the things that you would like to do such as spending your vacation at Gstaad or St Barts.

A sugar baby, as a rule, should spell out early on what it is she desires for her troubles, be it a gift and shopping sprees, help with tuition and allowance, vacations, housing, credit card payments and other things.

I enjoy a number of things such as fine restaurants, shopping, adventures / vacations.

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Despite a well meaning attempt to surprise everyone, things do not go as planned, throwing Thomas and the family into an awkward week long vacation where everyone has problems and no one wants to talk about them.

That episodic format can work in some cases (Harold & Kumar, Anchorman), and even seems well - suited to Vacation's «stops along the road trip» structure; but again, Daley and Goldstein keep things so amped up the entire time along the journey that it becomes impossible to appreciate the biggest gag setups and set pieces, as the big payoffs get lost in the rush of little «filler» gags in between each big set piece.

Feeling the dregs of his job as a pilot for a lower - end airline, and the rut routine of his family and married life, Rusty makes a «bold» move to spice things up: Instead of dragging his family to the same dilapidated woodland cabin, he's taking them to Walley World in California, just as his father did so many years ago (in the original Vacation).

After learning that his wife Debbie (Applegate) hates their family cabin, he decides to shake things up by taking her and their two sons James (Gisondo) and Kevin (Stebbings) to Walley World in order to recreate the vacation he went on as a kid.

I had a pretty long vacation so I filled it with way too many films (that's not true; there's no such thing as too many films!)