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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
You may recall I announced a Wisconsin blogger's get together awhile back. The event was to be part of a campaign put together by the lovely ladies at Mom it Forward and would raise money for a great charity that helps Kenyan woman start their own coconut oil extraction business.…
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inspiring moms!
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For Catherine Connors, becoming a driving force for action in her community did not mean traveling to foreign lands or holding a sign to protest for the causes she believed in. She enacted change with a few keystrokes on her computer.
Catherine is a mother, a blogger, and an…
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inspiring moms! • my world • moms making a difference
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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inspiring moms! • my world • moms making a difference
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on April 10th, 2009 | 5 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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inspiring moms! • my world • moms making a difference
by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected] 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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inspiring moms! • my world • moms making a difference
by MomItForward Jyl and Carissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected] 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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