But my granda said it was all just toys, how in our family it was real boats.
"There was always this tendency in our family to be as white as you could, " admits Boursicot.
But I have faith in our family and I believe in honoring that faith in anyway I can.
Nails that long were not the fashion, but it was a timeless hallmark of the women in our family.
It was my father, and other men in our family, who were the tacticians, and executors of any negotiation.
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How could we buy the house, that great symbol of investment in our family life, without eroding our family harmony?
Historically, when non-Hispanic white children were the majority in our family, clothes were handed down from older siblings to younger.
"We have seven voters in our family and we all always vote for the Congress Party, " says housewife Chandravati Singh.
In our family, it's two boys and three girls in between my strong and kind-hearted daughters, Bristol, Willow and Piper.
My Dad never became very prosperous himself, but he was the one who broke the cycle of poverty in our family.
"I always felt that it would be a house that would be in our family for 100 years, " says Ms. Fischer.
Our founder and chief executive played the father figure in our family.
And as Zakiyyah said, young people, education was everything in our family.
Or binge on chocolate when Type 2 diabetes runs in our family.
The disappearance of our TV became an opportunity in our family to discuss whether we wanted a TV in our home at all.
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We adopted a few in our family to address questions like whether my mom should buy long-term health insurance and where to hold our family reunion.
My dear Junie, unique in our family, unique in the world, may you rest in peace, in the arms of all those loved ones who passed on before you.
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With Skylanders Swap Force introducing figures with physical as well as electronic functions it will be interesting to see if this changes the play hierarchy in our family.
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But then one day I discovered that, yes, indeed, I was definitely way, way, way too tall, even taller than my mother, who wasn't the tallest in our family.
In our family of two parents and nine children (ages 13 to 29, four by birth and five by adoption), 100% of the citizens age 57 and up are non-Hispanic whites.
In our family, we have a tradition: Every year on the day before Thanksgiving, we take some time as a family to help out people in our community who are in need.
My 6-year-old daughter, the fourth generation in our family to come to this place, learned to love the water here the same way that my sister and I did more than 30 years ago.
For children, at least in our family, the main event wasn't the service, or snacking on the symbolic bitter herbs, hard-boiled eggs or sweet charoset (a paste made from apples and nuts), or even dinner.
As the primos-hermanos in our family grew up and moved out of the duplex, our own children came back for visits, day care or to roll around with each other on the living room floor.
But in my home, I was trying to hold on to as much of the traditional female role as possible, partly because my husband wasn't backing me up in terms of picking up the slack in our family relationships.
The only reason you have so many people of Mexican ancestry living in cities like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver or San Antonio is because, at some point in our family tree, there was a person, maybe a parent or grandparent, who was shut out from opportunity in Mexico and had to go north.
Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.
In our, family we've been calling the trustee the "tai-pan" because in the book Noble House by James Clavell, the tai-pan was the one descendant in each generation who was chosen to manage the family's wealth to advance the family's mission as much as possible.
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