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Sally Heath with baby Sarah…

School Secretary, Red Cross Volunteer and hard-working housewife and friend to her neighbors.

Mother.

Grandmother.

Great-Grandmother.

Chuck Heath, Jr. with his daughter Sophia

Heather Heath Bruce

Molly Heath McCann

Forty-nine years later and Sally’s baby is a former Alaska Governor; energy regulator; mayor; city councilwoman; sportscaster; and waitress. She was a Fox News Contributor; is a two-time author; documentary producer; professional speaker; and was the subject of full-length feature movies. Still fishes commercially for salmon. We don’t yet know where her Summit lies.

“Hi Mom,” is written on her hand….

Mother of five….

Grandmother.

Sarah Palin

Track Palin

Bristol and Tripp Palin

Willow Palin

Piper Palin

Trig Paxson Van Palin

Tripp Palin

We take a pause to pay tribute to Sally Heath, Sarah and Bristol Palin – and all wives and mothers – on this Mother’s Day.

File Photo: Left to right: Track with barbeque lighter, Bristol, Piper, and Willow Palin with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin giving Willow and Bristol bunny ears.

This Day, April 20, 1989, Track CJ Palin was born. “…[My] life truly began. I became a mom,” wrote former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin about her first-born child in Going Rogue, an American Life. “I had no idea how this tiny person, my son, would turn me inside out and upside down with the all-consuming love that swelled my heart from the second he was born.” He was named after the spring track (running) season.

Sgt. Palin serves in Arctic Wolves First Stryker Brigade based out of Ft. Wainwright. He was deployed to Iraq on September 11, 2008. Gov. Palin presided over that deployment ceremony, which included him. He was welcomed home on October 8, 2009 and he had re-deployed to Afghanistan to serve another tour of duty.

He has a daughter Kyla Grace Palin who will be two years of age this August. In 2010, as documented on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Track’s father Todd groomed him to take over the Palin fishing business.

Today, we pause to wish Track a happy birthday and to thank him for his service to our nation and honor Gov. Palin as a mother, a grandmother and a Blue Star Mom.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was in the Phoenix / Scottsdale, Arizona area this weekend both for her daughter Willow to graduate from Penrose Academy and to walk with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer in Strikeout Child Abuse.

In her interview with a local Fox affiliate, Gov. Palin said she spends a lot of time in Arizona “because our kids take different classes down here. They’ve chosen Arizona as the place to be and it’s not just because of the weather, which is heavenly.” The reporter asked her if the American public would support the “Gang of Eight’s” immigration package, which is a hot issue in the state. “If they first will make sure the borders are secure then I think American public will be open to hearing what bureaucratic regulatory solutions are, but first and foremost is securing the border,” she said.

The reporter asked if Gov. Palin is going to run for President in 2016. “Don’t know what I’m going to do in 2016, but I’m going to walk today and I’m happy to get to do that,” Gov. Palin said.

In her interview with a local CBS affiliate, Gov. Palin expounded on her immigration position. “There needs to be truth in this issue. The American public can’t keep being told that the border is as secure as ever or more secure than ever when that is not true,” she said.

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of Lauden Bruce. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin with her daughters Bristol, Willow, Piper, and three of their friends at the Palin’s Scottsdale, Arizona home, April 12, 2013.

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of Mary Beth Faller. @SarahPalinUSA, @BristolsBlog “were hanging out at Harold’s in #CaveCreek Friday night [April 12, 2013]. Looks like a good time.”

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of Jill Monier. Gov. Palin signs autographs for children at the Strikeout Child Abuse Walk in Phoenix, Arizona April 13, 2013.

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of: Allison Van Putten. Gov. Palin walks to Strike Out Child Abuse on April 13, 2013.

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of Brittany Schmidt. “Just your average walk with the Palins #strikeoutchildabusewalk #hopeandafuture”

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of @Katybeth_14 who subsequently pulled it from her Twitter account. Palins at an Arizona Diamondbacks game.

H/T Lynda Armstrong , “The Teacher’s Daughter: a Tribute to Sarah Palin” Facebook Group for Fox video lead, Ian Lazaran, Conservatives4Palin for CBS video lead, M. Joseph Sheppard, Palin4President2016, and Palin4America for photo leads.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today posted this Status Update on Facebook:

Willow and her classmates on the set of the TODAY Show.

Willow at Piper’s Birthday Party.

Willow, Piper, and Bristol at the Iron Dog race.

Willow enjoying the sunshine.

Cheering on Bristol on the set of DWTS.

Willow babysitting her little brother.

Willow studying abroad in London.

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Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today posted this Status Update on Facebook:

Kids: Follow Your Dreams, But Be Practical To Be Employable…

As my family travels to Arizona for Willow’s graduation this week, allow me to be a proud mom in congratulating Willow and her classmates at Penrose Academy on this achievement and also offer advice to young people that I always give in graduation speeches about following your dreams.

In planning for her future, Willow thought long and hard about what kind of work would make her happy and provide her with a good income in today’s economy. She’s artistic and has an interest in making people feel and look their best, and as an entrepreneur with a strong work ethic she desires to be her own boss as a small business owner. With all that in mind, she decided to finish her high school requirements quite early and enroll in an academy for hair and skin, which allowed her to study abroad, visit the sets of major media productions, and work with the best of the best in the industry. She’ll be graduated this week with no debt and a great career ahead of her doing something she loves in a recession-proof industry (everyone needs their hair cut after all!).

It’s crucially important today for young people to think about the big picture when making education decisions. And the big picture is the goal of self-reliant business opportunities based on work ethic and not entitlements. One of the reasons I aggressively encouraged vocational training opportunities as governor of Alaska is because they lead to good paying jobs and happy careers. Young people should not be pressured into assuming that a college degree is the only path to employment today. It’s not. Some college degrees obviously lead to clear professions, like those in the medical and engineering fields, but that’s not the case with many of the liberal arts degrees young people today gravitate toward either because they aren’t sure what they want to do after college or because they’ve been led to believe that college life is a sort of rite of passage for any career. That might have been the case once, but the salary and career opportunities a liberal arts education alone can get you have been dramatically limited these days. It’s so sad to see young people holding expensive college diplomas that come with no practical job opportunities.

I’m not discouraging a student from getting a liberal arts degree if that is his or her dream. I am always for following your dreams. How could I be against a liberal arts education when I myself got a liberal arts degree in journalism/communications from the University of Idaho? However, I knew when I was graduated from high school what I wanted to do, so it wasn’t as if I was embarking on an expensive voyage of self-discovery. And I’m proud of the fact that I was able to pay for my degree myself and graduate debt free. See how times have changed? Back then I was able to work my way through college and pay as I went. I had to go to school part-time some semesters in order to work and intern full-time, so it took me five years instead of four to get my bachelor’s degree, for which I've been roundly criticized by the liberal media (but how many of those critics were shackled in debt after they perhaps gallivanted around the globe with their daddy’s credit card in their backpack before finally finishing college and snagging that gig at MSNBC?). It was actually possible back in the ‘80s to graduate debt free. Nowadays it is next to impossible unless you have a full scholarship. Students today often graduate with the equivalent of a mortgage in college debt for a degree they’re not even sure they can parlay into a job. As Daniel Mitchell recently wrote, young people are buried in college debt “yet they are having a hard time finding jobs because Obama’s policies are stunting the economy’s performance. And even if they do find a job, the research suggests they will get paid less. Not just today, but for the foreseeable future.”

Follow your dreams, by all means. But don’t be blind to the fact that your dreams might be achieved outside of acquiring an outrageously expensive traditional college degree. Do not be lulled into thinking that good jobs grow on trees or that the government will somehow take care of you. The bottom line is – as my dad always told me – find out what you love to do, then find out how to make a living doing it. Learning a trade can do both. No one can take those vo-tech real life skills away from you. They lead to independence, satisfaction, and a paycheck. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Kudos to Willow and all Class of 2013 students for taking this lesson to heart. We’re so proud of her!

– Sarah Palin

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Bristol Palin today posted on Bristol’s Blog:

Willow is graduating from cosmetology school! This weekend, my whole family is going to Arizona for her graduation and I couldn’t be more proud of her. (I take partial credit, because I was her guinea pig for so many years!)

In honor of my sister, my family’s going to gather near her school in Arizona and walking in the Hope & A Future’s Strikeout Child Abuse Walk this Saturday at 3pm in Phoenix. (And not a second too soon, because it’s been sooo cold up here.) According to the organization’s website:

The walk is designed to combat child abuse through public awareness and financial support of programs that benefit Arizona foster children.

The event kicks off with a brief 1-mile family walk through downtown Phoenix and ends at Chase Field in time for participants to watch the Arizona Diamondbacks take on the Los Angeles Dodgers

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, so what a great way to bring awareness to this issue. Do you want to come out and walk? Learn more and register here.

Make sure you wave if you see me!

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