Leslie is a single mom -- just like my mom was a single mom -- trying to put her daughter through college.
Ten years ago, when I left my full-time job directing on-air promotions for ABC to be a full-time mom, I didn't think I would need a Filofax or to-do lists or even a desk at home.
And I think about my mom -- a single mom, because my dad left when I was a baby.
But of course, if you're a small business or a mom-and-pop business or a big business starting up here, you've got to pay even the reduced rate that Governor Romney is talking about.
How does the Dodd-Frank Act apply to a mom-and-pop shop?
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I'd also like to thank to Dr. Jill Biden -- a Blue Star Mom, by the way -- and a dear friend of mine as well.
In one of its current spots a haggard-looking single mom argues with a deadbeat dad who's moving out-of-state.
Joanne Trattoria is a simple mom-and-pop outfit, but the mom and pop in question are Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta, the parents of Lady Gaga.
It is unclear how far Mrs Palin's ambitions stretch, but she is positioning herself as a coupon-clipping hockey mom at a time when Americans are glum and Republican fortunes are rising.
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As a child she was both a stay-at-home-mom (until my three siblings and I were all in school) and a working mom (an over-committed special education teacher).
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Neighbor Gina McDade said Nancy Lanza was a "stay-at-home mom" and not a teacher or part-time employee of Sandy Hook Elementary, as some media reports stated.
Eason, who was trained as a pediatric nurse, was a stay-at-home mom until a bookkeeper at the trout farm left suddenly in 1985 and she was pressed into service.
"There is no way to describe seeing your son behind a window so thick that it has barbed wire in it and you can't give him a hug, " Morgan, a stay-at-home mom with a strong Southern accent, said in a phone interview.
The water was so high this year that Paige Crawford, a 38-year-old mom who lives a few blocks away, reached out and touched one.
Hers seems like one of the most reasonable requests a still-grieving mom could make.
But right next door, in the very same shopping plaza, is a mom-and-pop, artisanal bakery.
For a mom-and-pop store, maybe spicing it up with a little controversy will draw the crowds.
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We never did find a Starbucks before leaving Pennsylvania or a cute mom-and-pop restaurant to eat at.
Janese Lesser , a 40-ish mom of three schoolchildren in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
While Thomas says his foundation still has a "mom-and-pop" feel, they plan to continue growing to help more children in need.
"When you start out with a mom-and-pop trusting approach, you have to get real hardened real fast, " says James Pappas, e-commerce manager for Lafayette, Ind.
It started off as a mom-and-pop operation and built itself up.
That child sitting in foster care year after year after year is not going to their social worker and saying, 'I only want a mom-and-dad home.
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Since turning his full attention to ownership after he retired from racing in 1992, Petty had witnessed Nascar's transformation from a mom-and-pop pastime into an advertising behemoth fueled by outside investors.
Because I have a Spanish-speaking mom and learned the language at home and at summer camps, I wanted to do theater in Spanish or in a mix of both English and Spanish.
But you see, when nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unmarried parents, likely to a too-young mom, that puts tremendous pressure on grandmothers (and some grandfathers), sisters and brothers to take up the slack.
The pair, who have been married since 2005, aren't just being cute when they call their burgeoning outfit a mom-and-pop shop: "In a lot of ways it's a very conservative, reliable, safe way to start a business, " Alesch says.
The kids get the rest -- at a discounted value -- when Mom and Dad die.
In February, Hope Hughes, a stay-at-home mom, was at a playground near her Chicago home with her daughter, then four, when she heard a thunk the sound, she says, of a young boy hitting his head on equipment.
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