Sentences with phrase «waiting families by»

You may learn about carefully screened waiting families by reading their adoption profiles, seeing their photos, communicating by telephone, as well as meeting them in person.

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In those pre-social media days, families gathered at a local library serving as a communications center and waited by fax machines for lists of injured who had been transported to hospitals.

A programme by a Christian organisation to find family homes for volunteers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to stay in has been so popular even the waiting list is full.

Amid all the waiting, testing, and praying for her own twins, Watwood had developed a deep compassion for families stung by infertility.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

They wondered about things like people waiting in line to get a snapshot of their family with the senior pastor, the pastor calling everyone «Buddy» and «Sport» instead of by name, and the fact that the pastor slipped into the front row after worship because it was time to deliver the speech for the TV show (I mean sermon for the flock).

But they didn't either, and He waited until someone recognized him as G - d, and made his family into the Jewish people, whose mission was / is to teach either by example or directly what we are here for and what G - d wants us to do in this world.

A number of the disabled programs were going to be taken over by a federal court and we transformed them and 31,000 families got off a waiting list...

I teach them right from wrong by example not scaring them into believing in a book of stories that was written back in B.C. Nothing erks me more then to hear my NJ suburb families tell me how they can't wait to see their little girl get all dressed up in their communion dress, only to not continue with the religious education.

So guy gets bitten by a snake, waits 8 hours, then gives his family permission to call paramedics?

Thank you and can't wait to stop by again and create some of your wonderful recipes for my family.

Pipping hot from the oven, my family couldn't wait to dig in and it was well - received by all.

I was so excited when our friends from Gallo Family suggested a Sunday Supper event inspired by recipes with memories and I couldn't wait to share this deliciousness with you.

Fifteen hundred customers are waiting, some for as long as two winters, for the custom - made boots ($ 65 and up) laboriously crafted by this Bavarian family.

Or maybe it was the message that Byrd's wife, Angela, sent by way of Jet kicker and family friend Cary Blanchard to the huge press contingent waiting for word, any word, on Dennis's condition.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

Okanda was discovered by a member of the Okapi community who saw him playing at a reception center as his family was waiting to be settled by the UNHCR.

If you think it was bad last night wait for the Tottenham game, I was speaking to a mate of mine and he said a lot of the old faces are already planning to come and cause trouble inside and outside, the trouble is all the old faces and some new ones know this Stadium is perfect for hooliganism, even if they get banned it might be one or two last hurrahs, I expect every game we are allowed to play this season will have similar stories and our name will be dragged through the mud, everyone that is involved in it if found guilty by a court should be named and shamed publically so that there families and employers can judge them also.

By the second day the nurse suggested a nipple shield, but the hospital didn't provide them, so I had to wait for a family member to bring me one.

Beyond them their family and friends sat waiting for the joint speech that was to be delivered by the salutatorian and me.

Winter Waits - Lynn Plourd I love this series by Lynn Plourd with of nature's «family» personified through characters in each season.

Some of these children are eventually reunited with their birth families, or adopted by new families, but some children spend up to two years waiting to be adopted after their parental rights have been terminated.

, a weekly television segment hosted by WHAM TV 13 Associate News Director, Don Alhart, in Rochester, New York, features a local waiting child in an effort to recruit forever families.

We nine families were thrown together by the random luck of our close proximity on a waiting list, but also by the deep commonality of our decision to adopt from Ethiopia.

Researchers in Australia cast doubt on the familiar idea that women delay starting a family out of some misguided notion that they can have it all by waiting.

With a pool of 60 — 85 adoptive families waiting, the agency is contacted by 350 expecting parents for «options counseling» every year, Levine says.

As most of you know by now, I am expecting my second little boy and I can't wait for us to become a family of four in October.

Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.

Read your child stories about growing families - My New Baby and Waiting for Baby by Rachel Fuller are both good titles to start with.

No wonder house prices doubled, whilst social housing waiting lists rose by 500,000 families in ten years.

The Independence Party, like the Working Families Party, which is also under investigation (although by the US attorney's office, not the Manhattan DA's office), put a placeholder AG candidate on its ballot line, singaling a desire to wait and see what happens in the Democratic primary before making a final decision.

As Sascha Cordner reports, earlier in the week, he told reporters he'd wait before signing it, until he talked to the families who were impacted by the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school.

Metzger said that she understands firsthand the challenges faced by families in rural communities, and that she is done waiting around for state senators to do their jobs.

By then, two whole years of attempts to secure a future for our family, with long periods of waiting in uncertainty and sometimes desperation, had passed since we left Syria.

Can you remember when you had to wait for an email from your fans, friends, family, colleagues, or business prospects — or sit by the phone and wait for them to call?

I was so excited when our friends from Gallo Family suggested a Sunday Supper event inspired by recipes with memories and I couldn't wait to share this deliciousness with you.

Now, I have the opportunity to try so many incredible products throughout the year, that by the time Christmas rolls around, I can hardly wait to grab doubles of my favorites for friends and family.

The decor and all of the food, I can't wait to have a full belly and to be surrounded by family.

Anyways, I hope you all had a week that went by fast and enjoy your beautiful weekend ahead — I know we can't wait for Joel's day off on Sunday to hang as a family — we are thinking of heading to a berry farm and maybe the splash pad if the weather cooperates.

Breast cancer had affected three generations of women in Lindsay's family, and after multiple rounds of rigorous tests, she realized that she did not want to spend her life plagued by fear, waiting for a positive diagnosis.

You'll find a lot of folks that just sit around and wait for the next blind date to become scheduled by one particular of their close friends or members from the family members.

MIRROR.CO.UK - Jan 15 - The average person in a bad relationship waits four years before breaking it off, according to research by eHarmony.co.uk — fear of being alone, pity for their partner and concern over how the rest of the family will be affected are the major reasons.

Whether you are trying regular dating sites like Match.com or meeting up with old acquaintances, being matched up by family and friends or trying dating sites for single parent just like you, one thing is certain: love is still out there waiting and beckoning on you.

There is a disquieting stillness of an absolute and ruthless lack of conscience, stirred only by a lack of civility in others, and the sight of Dottie dancing in a pool of light as she waits for him and her family to strike a deal.

After watching American Sniper, clinically directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American war history, you will think not only that war is hell, but that it is a cruel beast that devours its victims by inches and scars their families waiting fearfully across the water at home.

There are several candidates for that role, including Rey, who has been waiting since childhood for her family to return to her, or Poe, who is the best pilot in the Resistance led by General Leia (Carrie Fisher).

An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up.

This is despite a solid and appropriately unglamorous and worn performance by Oprah Winfrey, who smokes and drinks, waiting for her husband to finish his long shifts and is tempted by a family friend played by Terrence Howard.

Missy and her husband Dean (Bradley Whitford), who are white, have already copped to the unfortunate optics of being waited on by black employees in their fancy country estate, while insisting the pair are part of the family.

The movie, with a serviceable script by newcomer Andrea Berloff, is also about their families, who were waiting for news over the course of that chaotic day.