Erin Jeany has sent us a letter to her son, Elijah, just under the Mother's Day Letters Project wire. You can also find it on her blog, One Big 'Pyle' Of Love.

Here's Erin:

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Happy Mother's Day! To continue our Mother's Day Letters Project, I want to introduce you to a lively group of ladies known as the Pimlico Elementary School Grandparents' Club.

I met many of them nine years ago, when I was working on a story about them for The Sun. (You can read it here to get a better idea of how much they've meant over the years to that school.)

I was pregnant when I was reporting the story. Very pregnant. The ladies fussed over me, and maybe that's why they still remember me.

It occurred to me that these women, who have raised children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren through many challenges, would have some priceless Tweets of advice for all mothers and children.

They didn't disappoint. Watch this space throughout the day: I'll be updating this post, along with the @charmcitymoms Twitter account, with their advice. Here's the first Tweet:

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The latest contribution to the Mother's Day Letters Project comes from Heather J. (See it also as a post on her blog, Age 30+...A Lifetime of Books, which is also featured on our Mobbies page (for Maryland's Outstanding Blogs).

On Mother's Day, I'll share my own letter to my kids. And there will be a special treat -- all day on Mother's Day, @charmcitymoms will feature Tweets of advice from a club of grandmothers and great-grandmothers associated with Pimlico Elementary School. The Tweets will also be collected here.

Meanwhile, here's Heather...

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Jill Berry of Musings from Me has posted her contribution to the Mother's Day Letters Project.

I'm printing it below for us to learn from, too.

I'd love to have letters, blog posts, or Tweets from every Maryland mom I can. E-mail them to me here or post in the comments section. Or post on your blog with a link back to the original project post.

Here's Jill:

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I'm preempting my usual Dinner Together day to announce a Mother's Day initiative. I'm calling it the Letters Project.

I'm looking for you -- yes, you -- mothers and grandmothers to send me letters you have written to your daughters and sons. If you haven't written any, write one now. It can be for your child to read as a teenager, or as an adult, or for this very moment. It can even be to your unborn child, or the child you hope to have or will never have, or to one who has died.

If a Tweet is all you have time for, write and send me that.

Then we're going to share all this great advice with each other, culminating in a (hopefully) big splash for Mother's Day.

It started because I got the most wonderful letter from my grandmother the other day...

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