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		<title>When Even Vacation Isn&#8217;t Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/09/when-even-vacation-isnt-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a bit of a physical wreck these days &#8212; sore right elbow, sore left wrist, aching hip capsule.  (&#8220;Hip capsule&#8221; is a term I learned from my osteopath brother-in-law so I believe it is something that exists, or at least I know I&#8217;m not the one who made it up.)  These ailments, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nose Yourself (My Adventures in Piercing)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The JCC pool has closed, not to reopen for nine long months.
No more built-in Sunday morning play dates.  No more after-school swimming adventures to break up the week.  No more watching Jake launch himself off the diving board before dog paddling to the edge of the pool while I marvel at the fact that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime and the Land of When Things Calm Down</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/summertime-and-the-land-of-the-when-things-calm-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/summertime-and-the-land-of-the-when-things-calm-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nearing the end of Michael Chabon&#8217;s book of essays, Manhood for Amateurs.   I&#8217;ve been reading it for about two months now, approximately the average amount of time it takes me to finish a book since Lily has decided that if I am going to read while waiting for her to fall asleep I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respecting your body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my friend Teri invited me to a girls&#8217; night, my first idea of what to do was panic.
There was a time when I was all about the girls&#8217; night out.  When I believed in a sort of aggressive-defensive-sexy Woman Power and cosmopolitans and thinking my friends and I looked like the gals in Sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Shifts, Big Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/little-shifts-big-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intentions versus goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toddler tantrums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too much to do]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Lily has been walking for over a week now, she does not yet view it as a mode of transportation.  Walking, for her, is a game that starts with a parent placing her at one end of the living room and yelling with great excitement, &#8220;Walk to Jake! Walk to Jake!&#8221;  It is unclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting instead of making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonharming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stillness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stuck at home with a child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[you can't control everything]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing YogaMamaMe since Jake was younger than Lily is now.
This makes me think a lot of things:  How quickly time passes when you have kids.  How scary it is to watch time pass so quickly, especially when you have kids.  And how I seem to be repeating myself.
Take last night, for instance.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passeaster</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/passeaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/passeaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did something I am pretty sure I&#8217;ve never done before &#8212; I threw a seder on Tuesday (does one &#8220;throw&#8221; a seder?) and I put together Easter baskets for Sunday.  (Actually, Jake and Lily got Easter baskets and the rest of the folks visiting got some perfectly serviceable Easter bags, but who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At What Point Are There So Many Boundaries That I Can&#8217;t Find My Way to My Child&#8217;s Heart?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/at-what-point-are-there-so-many-boundaries-that-i-cant-find-my-way-to-my-childs-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/at-what-point-are-there-so-many-boundaries-that-i-cant-find-my-way-to-my-childs-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a heady moment of deja vu this morning.
There I was, crouched over my son in his car seat, using my knee to push his arching body back into place as I struggled to buckle him in and heard a gutteral voice that sounded suspiciously like my own hissing, &#8220;You sit down NOW!  Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a Fresh Perspective Requires a Fresh Perspective (Don&#8217;t Look at Your Butt Redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respecting your body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the bigger picture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dressing room mirrors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned my lesson when I looked at my butt in a mirror at my sister-in-law&#8217;s house while four months pregnant.
You would, in fact, not be expecting too much to think after that shock I would be smart enough not to look at my butt in a changing room mirror at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Truly Scary Halloween, or How I Crossed Over</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/a-truly-scary-halloween-or-how-i-crossed-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/a-truly-scary-halloween-or-how-i-crossed-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Lily will be the same age Jake was when we moved to Asheville two years ago.
Just typing those words is sending me into a shower of I-don&#8217;t-know-whether-to-explode-with-joy-or-cry-uncontrollably emotions.  For months after Lily&#8217;s birth I had to consult Jake&#8217;s old baby pictures to remember  what he was like at her age.  Now, however, I [...]]]></description>
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