Download or read book Grandkids Say the Cutest Things written by Karen O'Connor and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen O’Connor, author of the highly popular Getting’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 260,000 copies sold) tunes into the hilarious, surprising, and sometimes insightful things that grandchildren say. Funny quotes and vignettes celebrate the candid comedy that children bring to our lives. Among offerings provided by other grandparents, Karen shares personal stories and showcases themes for laughable moments: Paying Attention—there is happiness in the details Sweet Sayings—“ahh” moments that are good for the soul All About God—divine comedy and wisdom from the mouth of babes Pet Tales—kids and animals equal a barn-full of funny Good Question—wit and wonder abound This reminder to remember the pure joy of families and grandkids is a great read and a super gift to mark any occasion with the tradition of loving and laughing.
Download or read book A Car Seat in My Convertible written by Sharon Hoffman and published by New Hope Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Car Seat in My Convertible?, author Sharon Hoffman, a godly grandmother herself, along with her network of lively grandmother friends, helps readers find the excitement about this life stage transition. More importantly, she helps readers recognize and take advantage of their special spiritual role in the lives of their grandkids.
Download or read book My Say written by Gerrie Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grandparents Grandchildren written by Arthur Kornhaber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Kornhaber and Woodward explore the vital connections which link generations to each other and expose a new social contract that destroys the emotional bonds between grandparents and grandchildren., This is the first book which reviews, in a careful ethnographic manner, the relationship of grandchildren to grandparents and the place of love at one end and abandonment at the other by grandparents. The authors probe the deep, unexplored emotional histories of hundreds of grandparents; how they feel about themselves, their grandchildren, and their loss of function within today's nuclear family., With sharp increases in the number of broken families and working mothers, grandparents are more vital than ever and also more available than ever. This basic research document shows how grandparents recover their natural role as elders of the family and of society. The author's basic premise is that to exist is to be connected, and that no matter how grandparents act, they affect the emotional well-being of their grandchildren, for better or for worse, simply because they exist., In an age when mounting economic and social pressures make it increasingly easier to split a family than to sustain one, the authors alert us to a forgotten source of family strength, the power of grandparents to enrich the lives as a whole. The case studies reported in this volume represent a first effort in an area left unexplored by developmental researchers. There are lessons here for social scientists, but even more for our alienated society.—Urie Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University
Download or read book Wicked Sweet written by Mar'ce Merrell and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantal is a planner, and her summer-before-senior-year plan requires best friend Jillian, resumé updating, and studying for AP classes. Jillian wants something different and is afraid to leave introverted Chantal in the dust. All that changes, though, when popular classmates Parker and Will suspiciously start hanging out with the girls. Chantal only sees one thing: Jillian ditching her for Parker—a guy who can't even be trusted! Chantal hatches a new plan, one that will expose Parker and Will for what they truly are, and along the way, get her best friend back with the littlest lie and a lot of mouthwatering cake. After all, what are best friends for?
Download or read book Re Designing Your Life written by Sheila Macdonald Macgregor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Designing Your Life: A Practical Spirituality for the Second Half of Life is a timely and engaging book for living out the second half of your life with spiritual integrity. In this study you are invited to think about your life as a house undergoing renovations where, with God’s grace, you get to design something new and life-giving. Through practical exercises, thought-provoking discussion topics and memorable anecdotes, Re-Designing Your Life will guide you through: Coping with endings, empty-nesting and retirement; Caring for self while caring for elderly parents and grandchildren; Letting go of the things that get in the way of becoming your true self; Creating a spiritual legacy; Strengthening relationships; and Finding your passion in your second half of life. Re-Designing Your Life is a must-read for pastors, congregations and individuals who want to discover God’s calling in the second half of life. Video resources for group studies are also available.
Download or read book Grandma You Rock written by Karen O'Connor and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Gettin’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 300,000 copies sold) comes a funny, heartwarming look at being a grandma. More than 80 stories based on real-life experiences express the wonderfully humorous joy of interacting with grandkids. Karen O’Connor, grandmother of 14, says, “Grandkids keep us youthful, humble, and wide-awake! They also keep us praying!” Each two- to three-page story ends with an encouraging Scripture and a brief prayer thanking God for the gift of grandchildren. A wonderful celebration of grandmas everywhere! Rerelease of Bein’ a Grandparent Ain’t for Wimps.
Download or read book Moments of Impact written by Jillian Monitello and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jillian Monitello is just a young girl trying to enjoy each and every day while striving to fulfill her goals. As she lives her life, she learns the truth about battling Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a progressive terminal illness. While navigating the ups and downs of CF, Jillian does her best to live as close to a normal life for one her age. She enjoys spending her time with her family and friends while building a true love for sports. She strives to do the best she can in the classroom and outside of it, but somehow, CF makes itself known in many aspects of her life. Jillian doesn’t let CF hold her back, but rather, she learns to find a happy medium through her Christian faith in God as he guides her each step of the way.
Download or read book When Kids Hurt written by Chap Clark and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chap Clark's groundbreaking Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers struggling to navigate the ever lengthening and ever more difficult transition to adulthood without caring adults. When Kids Hurt offers these challenging insights to youth workers and parents in a more accessible form, with greater focus on how adults should respond. Practical sidebars and application sections, contributed by other youth experts, provide additional insights into youth culture and how adults can better guide adolescents into adulthood. This book will be an important resource for youth workers, parents, counselors, and others who work with youth.
Download or read book The Only Purple House in Town written by Ann Aguirre and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes the magical town of St. Claire, where anything is possible... Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successful, while she can't balance her budget for a single month. It's no wonder she's in debt to her roommates. When she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails—as most of her plans do. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...and not all of them are "human." Eli Reese grew up as the nerdy outcast in school, but he got rich designing apps. Now he's successful by any standards. But he's never had the same luck in finding a real community or people who understand him. Over the years, he's never forgotten his first crush, so when he spots her at a café, he takes it as a sign. Except then he gets sucked into the Iris-verse and somehow ends up renting one of her B&B rooms. As the days pass, Eli grows enchanted by the misfit boarders staying in the house...and even more so by Iris. Could Eli have finally found a person and a place to call "home"?
Download or read book My Favorite Senior Moments written by Karen O'Connor and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and joy abound in this entertaining look at senior life. From handling day-to-day foibles to connecting with your kids and grandkids, gentle humorist Karen O'Connor keeps you smiling, laughing, and appreciating the wisdom that comes with experience. My Favorite Senior Moments encourages you to look on the sunny...and funny...side of the street and enjoy the benefits of living long, including... chuckling at how God uses children to remind you of His blessings discovering that love and romance have no time limits navigating today's technology...with the help of grandkids remembering penny loafers—even if the salesperson doesn't enjoying new adventures and appreciating familiar ones God is with you every step of the way, and these vignettes full of character and wit prove it.
Download or read book House of Houses written by Pat Mora and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat Mora’s House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand.
Download or read book Stories Grandparents Tell About Their Grandchildren written by Bill Adler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories Grandparents Tell About Their Grandchildren is a touching and humorous collection of anecdotes and memories from grandparents about their grandchildren. From the pranks and charm of small tots to the adventures and achievements of older grandchildren, these stories are sure to strike a familiar chord in anyone who is -- or has -- a grandparent. Both personal and universal, this collection is about real life and the challenges and wonders of the world we live in. Most of all, there are no unhappy endings: grandparents know all about persevering and overcorming, and the common thread throughout their stories is their affirmation of life. Stories Grandparents Tell About Their Grandchildren is a perfect read for every matriarch and patriarch in your family, and for the people who love them.
Download or read book The Farewell Symphony written by Edmund White and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections--and near misses--slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years--the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers.
Download or read book Grandmothers at Work written by Madonna Harrington Meyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all of the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer's book are pleased to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules, using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts, and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply want to do this; others do it in part because they have more security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to the amount of financial help they are providing their grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years before their retirement.
Download or read book Long Distance Grandma written by Janet Colsher Teitsort and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication activities (via phone/fax, snail-mail, or e-mail) that enable grandmas (and grandpas) to forge strong bonds with grandchildren living far away.
Download or read book Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes written by Friars Club and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A side-splitting collection of 2000 jokes from the best-known comedians and members of the infamous Friar's Club including Ellen Degeneres, Chris Rock, George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Wanda Sykes, Jon Stewart, Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller, and dozens more. Need a laugh? How about 2000 of them? Hundreds of the world's best comedians provide jokes for every occasion and situation --lightbulb jokes, "he's so dumb . . . " jokes, mother-in-law jokes, dirty jokes, really dirty jokes, and more! Organized alphabetically by topic, the collection is perfect for browsing, searching for ice-breakers and pick-up lines, spicing up toasts, or adding a dose of humor to public speeches. Includes an introduction by comedian Drew Carey!
