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		<title>When Good Girls Go Mad</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/11/when-good-girls-go-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written.  (Blame the novel.  Or don&#8217;t blame the novel, just read it when it&#8217;s finished.)  A lot has happened.  Lily is speaking in three-word sentences &#8212; &#8220;Jake eat pasta&#8221; is a common one; &#8220;Man is gone?&#8221; a particularly clever way of saying she can&#8217;t find the man in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Barnes &amp; Noble:  A Case Study in Second Child Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel, at the outset, that I should be clear this story has nothing to do with my second child, despite being about Second Child Syndrome.  Or, at least, nothing directly.
But I do feel, rightly or wrongly, that my ability to walk away from my not-yet-four-year-old as he played with the toy train set in [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></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>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/09/nose-yourself-my-adventures-in-piercing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/09/nose-yourself-my-adventures-in-piercing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting instead of making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
		<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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		<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>What Wonder Woman and I Have in Common: It&#8217;s Not What You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who somehow missed the news, last week Wonder Woman unveiled her new look.
When I saw her picture, two thoughts flashed across my mind in quick succession:  First, she dresses a whole lot like me.  Second &#8212; and this is the one that stuck, overcoming any embarrassment the first ought to impart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></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>
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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>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>
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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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=215</guid>
		<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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