me • health & fitness • parenting • education
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on January 13th, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I played a lot of things when I was a child. School. I was always the teacher. Hospital. I was always the nurse. And family. I was always the mom. Sense a theme here? Yes! I loved to be in charge. And being in charge meant that I got to decide who the students were in my classroom, who the patients were in my hospital, and how many kids I would have in my family. How many, …
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me • relationships
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on July 25th, 2011 | Comments Off
…Today, after 48 hours, I arrived in Kenya. It’s really quite a long story and I’m jet lagged, but needless to say, the flight attendant told us, an hour and a half into our Detroit to Amsterdam flight that we needed to turn back around and go to Detroit due
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my world • moms making a difference
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on July 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you make a change in your life that is so monumental you just can’t resist the urge to help others to do the same.
Such is the case with Leah Segedie and her Internet-wide movement, Mamavation….
Until July 21, moms can fill out applications explaining their desire to
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my world • moms making a difference
by Jyl Johnson Pattee on June 27th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For a mother, giving is innate.
From the moment we discover we are pregnant, or that we are being blessed with adoption, our inner ‘giver’ stirs. And, we may not even know it is happening.
Instead of worrying about the sleep we will lose, we think only of the quiet…
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