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As you guys know I don’t write on this blog much, but this is a subject that physically makes me so sick I have to turn away. Not read the information, close my eyes.  HUMAN TRAFFICKING?  Of CHILDREN?Yes I am shouting. I am angry, disturbed and sometimes ashamed of the human race.  And I have decided to stand up, be counted and open my eyes, as it will hurt me less than those in slavery, force my personal growth and maybe, just maybe, make a small difference in the world.

And so I turn the podium over to

Diana Scimone, From Born To Fly:

Thank you, Michelle, for inviting me to guest blog on your site for Blog Action Day. Mid-Life Mommy is one of 9,000 blogs around the world participating in bad08. That’s a whopping 9 million readers!

The world’s bloggers are all posting about the same issue on the same day. This year’s topic is poverty, and we’re writing about how poverty relates to the focus of our blog.

I’m a journalist who’s been to more than 40 countries writing about human rights. In the process, I’ve seen lots of kids. Kids who could use some love, a pair of shoes (or at least a pair that matches), and an hour in a bubble bath. Five years ago, I decided to do something to help them and launched a non-profit organization called Born to Fly International.

Now keep in mind I wasn’t a mom, didn’t have kids, and had never done any kind of children’s work in my life. If you’ve hung around Michelle’s blogs for any length of time, you know none of those reasons were red lights for me.

Our focus at B2F is to help stop child trafficking. Each year more than 1 million kids are trafficked for sex. That’s in addition to the kids already enslaved. Some of these children are just 5 years old.

Poverty is one of the biggest contributing factors to trafficking. When children are poor, it doesn’t take much to lure them. Someone offers a job as a model or waitress, and they’re gone. Parents who want a better life for their children fall prey to the lies of traffickers who promise education opportunities in the big city. “Just sign here,” they say, and moms never see their daughters again.

It’s a horrible situation—but there is something we can do about it. Kids get taken because they don’t know anything about trafficking. They really think they’re going to be waitresses. If we could educate them ahead of time—and their parents and teachers—we can put a huge dent in the number of kids getting trafficked each year.

That’s what The Born to Fly Project is designed to do. It’s a strategic 4-stage plan to educate kids, parents, and teachers about the dangers of child trafficking—with the ultimate goal of ending it. It has the potential to change the lives of millions of children as we teach them, “You were born to fly—don’t settle for less.”

If you’re moved by this post, I ask you to do two things:

• After you’ve watched the riveting video that opens the website, forward the link to others.
• Be part of $10×10K—10,000 people giving just $10 each to help get the job done.

Thanks for letting me be a guest at Mid-Life Mommy. (I’m posting something for Blog Action Day on my own blog, but since I’m actually writing this one first, Michelle is probably getting all the good stuff.)

Diana Scimone
President
Born to Fly International
www.dianascimone.com
www.born2fly.org
Twitter: @BornToFly

A Few other posts inspired by Blog Action Day:

• Human Trafficking on Mid Life Mommy by Born2Fly.org
• Yvonne at Outrageous Gardens wrote on Conscious Destiny.com
• Vicky at Remarkable Parents
• Todd at The Broad Brush
• Divine Purpose Unleashed  - Can you Live with Purpose in Poverty?

On this most prestigious of all days, Mother’s Day, you’d want to be with your Mom, but I can’t. My mom lives two plane trips away, in a town she grew up in and went to school in 60+ years ago.

Luckily, I’ll be with my mom in just a couple of weeks, when we’ll get to spend days and days together. But now that I’m a mom, I suspect that my mom cares a bit less about spending days and days with me, she wants to spend days and days with my daughter - her grandaughter!

So, Mum, Here is my mother’s day present to you!

I come in a couple of weeks and bring your grandaughter, and you’ll get to spend the days pushing the swing, playing in sand, and teaching her to read!

Happy Mothers Day Mum!

My Live Your Purpose Radio Show is starting to gain momentum! I’d appreciate a listen.

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Hi everyone. I’ve gotten a few emails asking where the heck have you been?

I’m here. Life is WONDERFUL!  K is now 4 and in pre-school. She loves it and so do I.  Mommyhood is the best, but I’m not cut out to be one of those stay at home, teach at home kind of moms. So when the time was right, I enrolled K at the local Montessori and went back to work part time.

So, I’m here, having a ball, and teaching Divine Purpose Unleashed workshops.

Come visit me over on the blog over there.

This blog did crash a week or so ago, and I was able to restore, but I lost the photos. I’m not doing to go back and fix each one, but I think the info is still here. Thanks for asking everyone!

You may have noticed that I haven’t written for mid-life mommy for
a while now.

What has happened is my little girl is growing up. Her 4th birthday
is approaching and K has started pre-school.

I took the small break in my morning while K’s at school to start
my business back up, (www.consciousdestiny.com) and in the process
discovered something wonderful.

I love what I do.  I knew that already, but I’ve gotten back into
it with a passion, creating workshops, talks, presentations.  I’m co-facilitating
classes on Living Your Divine Purpose.

This blog will keep going, but I’ll only be posting occasionally.
If you want to keep up with me, or my business, please come visit
me over on my new site.  www.DivinePurposeUnleashed.com and re-subscribe over
there.  In time I’ll be moving a lot of my articles from Conscious Destiny, but in the meantime you can find a to read over there as well.
So, come on over. I’d love to hear from you.

May you live your Divine Purpose always.

Namaste,

Michelle

My parents are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary next week!  We are all off for a big party and celebration, so I’m not blogging or around much right now.

If you are subscribed, then you’ll see the new posts as they appear - if not, check back in the middle of October.

If you are family, see you in a week!

LAMK

p.s.  I think I fixed the comment thing, thanks for your patience…..

I got 54 spam comments on this blog in less than 10 minutes today. I’ve turned off all unmoderated comments until I can fix this. Sorry… What a pain.

So K made it through a whole week of school. In the mornings she complained a bit, wanting to stay home with mommy, but mostly because she wanted to sleep. She’s not quite set in this new new routine of going to bed and getting up early. She’s tired, but refuses to go to sleep if she thinks things are happening elsewhere in the house. This morning is a teacher conference day, (yes already!) and she’s sleeping in.

I always enjoy getting comments and reading the other mommy blogs. Angela and Rhea, left kind words and other Midlife Mommies - Motherpie, and Third Mom Margie left comments referring to the time flying by. I know, I know, I’ve also got two grown (step) kids and five grandchildren older than K. Every time I see them I act like a totally dorky grandmother.

“My how you’ve grown! You must have shot up three inches since the last time I saw you”

The joy comes from watching them spread the wings though, and grow emotionally. K heads off to school each morning, and deals with the dramas that every three and four year old girl (and onward) deal with. Friendship, jealousy, hurt feelings; my heart breaks for K when she sees her new best friend of three days, play with the other new girl ignoring K.

How did us Mommies ever make it through all that drama?

After reading Jennas Magnadoodle blog post (which almost made my cry), I thought I’d give K’s birth mom a jingle on the cell phone.

“K started school today. She did really well! ”

“That’s great. Thanks so much for calling. Let’s talk again in a few weeks. I’m in Albuquerque. visiting my brother”

Huh? The (ex) druggy homeless birth mom with no transportation made it across country by herself?

She’s growing up too. I’m so proud.

I didn’t sleep a wink. First I dreamed that K was waiting patiently to go but I was running errands and missed the whole thing. Then I was washing my hair in the back of the car and since there isn’t water, I had to run back home and so we were late.

It is 5:30 am. I’m up and ready.

K is sleeping soundly secure that Mommy will take care of everything.

This photo shows her as such a little baby. When did she grow up?

Wish me luck.

K starts school in 2 hours and 26 minutes.

You may have noticed I’ve added a donate button on the left side of the page.  I’m slowly doing a redesign of the site which puts all the ads on the left, and the content stuff on the right.  Any time you click on something on the left, and spend money, the proceeds - 100% of them, go to the help kids.  Any pay per post writing I do, or anything that brings in money to this site with go to help kids.

I do I’ve chosen Bono’s and Oprah’s charities.  If you disagree with my choices of charities, drop me an email or comment below and tell me why. Otherwise just donate. We can help.

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