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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on September 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Family Fun—Raise your hand if you're a little addicted to cheese? I have two hands in the air. Can you feel the obsession oozing out of my computer screen into yours? So imagine the excitement I felt when I learned that Tillamook Cheese was rolling through Salt Lake …
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by Jyl Johnson Pattee on September 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
Family Fun—In this economy where fewer and fewer people are qualifying for home loans, how can a home builder get 30,000 people through its model home doors?
Bangerter Homes, a Utah home building company, figured out how by building a full-size replica of the house from the Disney…
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giving back • me • arts & entertainment • bettering communities
by Mom It Forward on June 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Reading, as many of us know, is fundamental to our existence in so many ways. Reading is the basis of a good education, facilitating the acquisition of a world full of skills and knowledge. Reading is the basis of a good life, enabling the acquisition of better-paying jobs.…
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me • arts & entertainment • family fun • travel
by Mom It Forward on June 17th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Vacations can be wonderful—oases of comfort in what can sometimes be the deserts of our work-a-day lives. But vacations with kids, even teenagers, can be a bit of a strain on the wallet and the brain, as we all know. This was the subject of a recent MomItForward Twitter …
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by Mom It Forward on May 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
Do you struggle to get your kids to be happy eating fruit, either from boredom with the same old stuff or from a dislike of fruit itself? Do you want to help those in need get more fresh produce, but don't know how? Here are some tips from…
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me • arts & entertainment • family fun • travel
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on May 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
When you envision the ideal family vacay, what pops into your head? Before last week, hitting six theme parks in three days never would have made my list. I was much more of a "I want my kids to experience foreign places and get cultured" type of a traveling…
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