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		<title>My Matching Set, or Our Second Stitches</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/08/my-matching-set-or-our-second-stitches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Jake tells it best:
&#8220;Mommy yelled, &#8216;LILY!&#8217; and she fell off the porch and all the blood came out of her head.&#8221;

It was one of those rare moments of parenting that are as exciting and dramatic as in the movies &#8212; I&#8217;m put in mind of the scene in Kramer vs. Kramer when Justin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime and the Land of When Things Calm Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></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>Who Said It&#8217;s Easier With One?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/who-said-its-easier-with-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I frequently find myself conned by rose-colored memories of the days when Jake was my only child and things were just so easy.  Sure, I cried frequently, often felt shut-in and lonely, and was already pregnant and too late to go back the first time Jake played by himself without demanding parental involvement about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lily Walks</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/lily-walks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those favorite phrases of parents of young children.  &#8220;Any day now!&#8221;
&#8220;Any day now!&#8221; we chirp as cheerfully as someone as sleep-deprived as the parent of an infant can chirp when someone asks if she is sleeping through the night yet with unknowing cruelty.
&#8220;Any day now!&#8221; we promise as we watch her rock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Say Never, and Never Say, &#8220;What Is That?&#8221; if You Plan on Picking It Up</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/never-say-never-and-never-say-what-is-that-if-you-plan-on-picking-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times, I&#8217;ve found, when, no matter how certain I was of my choice, the Universe was right there daring me to stick to it.  Telling me, in no uncertain terms, that I would be foolish to be that stubborn.
Take, for instance, bath time Thursday night.
It was then, in one, parenthood-requires-a-good-sense-of-humor flash that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<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>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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		<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>Lily Goes Full-Time</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Lily&#8217;s first day of full-time daycare.
Just writing it is making me cry again.  (As is wandering past my bedroom and the empty bed on which she is not napping and knowing that I will not have that unspeakably joyful moment of my day when she first wakes up from her nap and grins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jake and I Go to the Dentist (and Have Fun)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/jake-and-i-go-to-the-dentist-and-have-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/jake-and-i-go-to-the-dentist-and-have-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I climbed the curved ladder to the top of the play structure for the very first time.
Jake beat me to this milestone by several months and four decades.  But that didn&#8217;t cheapen the fun of climbing, rung by rung, up and then, a little at a time, over until I crouched horizontally over [...]]]></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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		<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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