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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
On April 30th my family and I will be remembering the 34th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, South Vietnam to the Communist North Vietnamese Army. The Communist Regime gaining control of South Vietnam forced my family to make a daring and dangerous escape for freedom.
We abandoned our home…
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 10th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
…The sun was setting in Mumbai, India, as a guide quietly drove journalist Diana Scimone down a crowded street. It wasn’t your usual tourist destination. It was Falkland Road, Mumbai’s notorious red-light district.
Scimone was covering a story on forced prostitution in India. The driver and his wife, who were
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My mom’s life here ended from a nine-month battle with melanoma cancer on October, 29th 2004 just after three in the afternoon. She took her last breath with her two sons close by her side and in the arms of her husband whom she loved and was married to for …
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on March 27th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kate (@asimplewalk) is a foodie author and owner of Cooking During Stolen Moments. (Love the pot in the window in her header..!) We met Kate at BlissDom09, I talked her into playing some board games one evening in fact!
Teaming up with Share Our Strength; Kate tells …
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on March 24th, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Can you even imagine how hard it must have been to choose a winner from over 100 nominations!
When we asked you to nominate someone who exhibited Mom it Forward’s Mission in your lives, we had no idea just how amazing all these entries would be!
Think of a person …
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on March 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Jay from HalftimeLessons.com is a husband, daddy, and fledgling writer. He started Halftime Lessons to talk about his journey across life’s halfway point, and fights for balance between his loves…his family, work, blog, and raising money for St. Baldrick’s children’s cancer research. To learn more about this amazing cause visit …
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on March 14th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on February 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
On Tuesday, January 27, Mom It Forward launched a giveaway. The requirement? To plan and carry out a service project or random act of kindness and vlog, blog, or submit a photo of it. And who says service doesn’t pay off? Not only for the recipients of these kind acts, …
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on December 10th, 2008 | 18 Comments »
What Is Magic?
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When we think of magic, we think of something appearing out of “nothing.” A rabbit from a hat. A bunch of flowers from a shirt sleeve. Or a quarter from an empty hand. We also think of women that give their all—even when their all feels like
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by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491865516287265662mommygossipgno@gmail.com on November 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am choked up writing this. I just jumped off of Twitter after nearly 6 hours of tall tweeting, trying to keep current with the short, but speedy conversations. In the flurry of excitement, I observed more than 100 women and a few men, stepping past mere socialization into the …
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