The Night Before Mothers Day

Download or read book The Night Before Mother's Day written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Mother's Day! Celebrate moms everywhere with spa treatments, tasty treats, and more in this installment of Natasha Wing's best-selling series. It's the night before Mother's Day, and Dad and the kids are determined to show Mom just how much they love her. They whip up a cake from scratch, and offer a special coupon for a day at the spa, right in their own kitchen! Kids and moms will love reading this sweet story aloud together for a fun way to celebrate Mother's Day.

Download or read book The Night Before Mother's Day written by Doug MacLeod and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential Christmas holiday rhyme is revamped and illustrated to make it the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, complete with children’s messes and night-before stresses. If Clement C. Moore had described the night before Mother’s Day instead of Christmas, he might have written about burned breakfast, muddy footprints, leaky clay teacups, smelly soaps, and glittery cards—all the trappings of Mother’s Day. In The Night Before Mother’s Day, MacLeod and Horacek share the innermost thoughts rattling around in mom’s head as she lies in bed the night before. From the messy kitchen shelf (that the husband and children assume gets cleaned by itself) to the brooding vampires on the DVD, mom silently ponders what it might be like if she transformed into a sharp-fanged member of the un-dead. Who can she turn to in such an hour of need, when she’d rather make each member of her own family bleed? Why her mother of course! “You’ve had a hard day, dear?” / Her mother would guess, / “Of handcrafted presents? / And mayhem? And mess? / “Well, come around later, / Let’s both drink some tea— / From leaky clay teacups / You once gave to me.” Celebrating the nostalgia and common experience of motherhood, The Night Before Mother’s Day is an illustrated ode to the trials and tribulations (and occasional familial bloodlust) that mom expertly navigates 365 days of the year.

Download or read book Asking and Telling in Conversation written by Anita Pomerantz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together nine of my papers on the topic of asking and telling. Each paper analyzes complexities that are involved when people ask or tell something to other people. For each of the nine papers, I wrote a short lead-in that precedes the paper and a commentary that follows it. The italicized lead-in identifies the research interests that drove the analysis. The commentary provides my current sense of the paper, including when relevant, a critique of it. As I had conducted some of the research, including the work on preference organization, nearly fifty years ago, I have had ample time to reflect on these papers. In the remainder of the introduction, I briefly describe the atmosphere during the early years of Conversation Analysis (CA), my approach to the field, themes that occur across several of the papers, the order of the papers, and the central points of each paper"--

Download or read book Grieving the Death of a Mother written by Harold Ivan Smith and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by grief counselor Harold Ivan Smith, this book is for those who have loved and lost their mom. Drawing on personal and professional experience, Smith guides readers through grief, from death to burial to honoring the memory of their mother.

Download or read book Amá, Your Story Is Mine written by Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to her memoir, Ercenia "Alice" Cedeño recalls the secrecy and turmoil that marked her youth: "I spent most of my growing years mad at my mother and wanting her to change to fit in with the rest of the world," she writes. "When my sisters and I wanted her to visit our friends' mothers, she would say, 'Why do people need to know other peoples' lives?' Looking back, I wonder if she was really saying, 'I don't want them to know our business.' There was so much to hide." Now bringing those hidden memories to light, Amá, Your Story Is Mine traces the hardship, violence, deceit, and defiance that shaped the identity of two generations of women in Alice's family. Born in the mountains of northern Mexico, Alice's mother married at age 14 into a family rife with passion that often turned to anger. After losing several infant children to disease, the young couple crossed into the United States seeking a better life. Unfolding in a series of powerful vignettes, Amá, Your Story Is Mine describes in captivating detail a daring matriarch who found herself having to protect her children from their own father while facing the challenges of cultural discrimination. By turns wry and tender, Alice's recollections offer a rare memoir that fully encompasses the Latina experience in the United States.

Download or read book I Don't Want Your Man, I Want My Own written by Dr. Alveda C. King and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I DONT WANT YOUR MAN, I WANT MY OWN SECOND EDITION A compelling allegory, a must have spiritual tool for generations to come. - Dr. John L. Johnson, publisher and author Of THE BLACK BIBLICAL HERITAGE Our Vision Uniting the dream of Civil Rights and moral justice for abundant life." Our Mission Enhancing lives spiritually, intellectually,physically andholistically.

Download or read book The Journey, The Dreams, & AnnaBelle written by Carolyn Sue Morris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a personal journey through the lives of three generations of the authors family, told in great detail. It begins with her grandparents; Edgil and Minnie "Griffith" Wicker in 1924. Her mother, AnnaBelle, was the second of fifteen children, and first daughter. AnnaBelle's life is one of twists and turns. Married twice, divorced twice, two daughters, and a gypsy spirit. The story leads into Carolyn's life as the journey continues. Her childhood, marraige, loves, temptations, and the decisions that would remain in her heart and haunt her dreams. As she will eventually learn...The heart does go on. The author has added her poetry to the flow of the story. She has also included photographs of the family to help bring the story to life for the readers. Some of these date from the early 1900's.