Lost Mentor, Lost Friends, Lost Love- Reconnect with MyLife.com!

Teenage years are tough, but when you have a teacher or a coach or someone special look at you and tell you that they believe in you & that anything you put your mind to you can achieve, it sticks with you. It stays with you through all of the ups and downs of the college years, and pops back into your mind when you get that promotion or get your dream job. They may have written you a letter of recommendation for college, and you may have even traveled back to the school after you graduated to visit, but all of these years later you wonder how they are and if they know just how much they touched your life.

For me, Ms. Linda Murray-Wilke was that teacher. She was an English teacher in Newfield High School. I heard she retired shortly after I moved to Florida, and I was heart broken. She was talented, and had a rapport with many children at the school, and the best teacher I ever had. She coached me through some very difficult teenage moments, and encouraged me. She told me that I could accomplish my dreams, and I believed her.

The idea to look for Ms. Murray-Wilke came to me when I first learned of MyLife.com back in September. I typed in her name, hypen and all, and came up empty handed. I searched for 'Linda Wilke' and also got nothing. I just searched for 'Linda Murray' and got over 400 people to search through! I would love to find her and let her know how I am, the person I've become and the things I've acheived because she believed in me.HOW IT WORKS:

MyLife.com takes all of the hard work and simplify it to a click of the mouse- all you need is the person's first name, last name and approximate age. They search thousands of sources, and even completes a reverse search to see who's been looking for YOU!

This service would be great helping to reconnect with long lost loves, old classmates, teachers, mentors, coaches and friends!

Check out MyLife.com now, and let me know if they helped you find the person (or people!) that you wanted to reconnect with the most. Good luck, and have fun searching!

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Kid Safe Ink Review and Giveaway! #25

While standing on line at the Dumbo ride at the Magic Kingdom this year, I had the biggest scare of my life. Alex, Abbie and I were standing, counting random things, to help pass the time when Alex pointed something out to me. I turned my head to look at it, and turned my head back, and Abbigaile was gone. Gone. In Walt Disney World. With 9 million people, most of them children.. I almost died. The people in front of me and the people behind me didn't see where she went to, my biggest fear was happening before my very eyes. Brian had just come back with the drinks he got the same instant the panic started to fill my eyes. He took one look at me, and saw that she wasn't next to me and started scanning the line from the outside. Thankfully, Abbigaile was ok.. she had seen a very clear tunnel of backpacks that led 5 people behind us to the elephant topiary. While I was having a panic attack, she was watching the topiary as it spun in circles.

The owner and creator of Kid Safe Ink, Heather, went through a very similar experience with her son. They were on vacation in Maui, with some friends for the holidays. Her son (who was almost 6 at the time) got separated from them on the beach. Envision 200,000 people, on a BEACH and a never ending line of hotels that all look the same, and a hysterical child-suddenly lost- running frantically in the wrong direction! It toook their group a good 45 minutes for them to finally find him, as they ran from towel shack to towel shack, hotel to hotel.

The idea behind Kid Safe Ink developed that day, and now these fun and vibrant tattoos are available in several old school cool designs, a heart, star, anchor and sparrow, as well as a combo pack or you even have the ability to use your own logo or design! What's even better, is that these tattoos come pre-printed with your phone number of choice, are super easy to apply and they truly last the WHOLE weekend!

Want it?
Head over to Kid Safe Ink and check out their awesome, sanity saving tats. Be sure to let them know that you read about them here at 4BabyAndMom!

WIN IT!
Our friends at Kid Safe Ink are offering one of our lucky readers the chance to win their very own kid safe ink tattoos!

Here's how:

• Head over to Kid Safe Ink, & check out their super cool tattoos! Pick out the style or combo pack that you would prefer, and come back here and let me know!
  

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Fine Print: Please include your email or contact information in your comments. YOU MUST post separate comments for each one of the tasks above that you complete. This drawing ends Saturday 2/28 at 11:59pm EST. Any comments posted after that time will be deleted. If you post one reply saying you did all methods of entry, you will only receive 1 valid entry. One lucky winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be announced Sunday March 1. Any questions, please click on the Contact Us button on our sidebar. Thank you for participating!

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