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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>
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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>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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		<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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		<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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=258</guid>
		<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>Who Said It&#8217;s Easier With One?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/who-said-its-easier-with-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/who-said-its-easier-with-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></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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		<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>
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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[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></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>Careful What You Wish For (2010 Version) &#8212; I Still Want to Hug Him</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/careful-what-you-wish-for-2010-version-i-still-want-to-hug-him/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/careful-what-you-wish-for-2010-version-i-still-want-to-hug-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me this morning, as I wandered the empty kitchen feeling just a little bit sick over leaving my son in his new classroom, that this surely must not be the first time I&#8217;ve thought to myself, &#8220;Careful what you wish for.&#8221;
Surprisingly, it turns out I last wrote those words nearly a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Patience an Achievable Parent Virtue?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in seventh grade my health teacher, Mr. Phillips, told me I would make a good teacher because I was so patient.
I immediately declared that I would never be a teacher in the kind of bratty voice that comes with being nearly thirteen years old and not particularly fond of Mr. Phillips.
This brattyness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Vacation Ends and You Still Have 2,500 Miles to Go.  With Kids.</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/02/when-the-vacation-ends-and-you-still-have-2500-miles-to-go-with-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/02/when-the-vacation-ends-and-you-still-have-2500-miles-to-go-with-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My approach to the end of a good vacation is to panic.
My stomach twists into a little cherry-stem bow at the very thought of resuming a regular life.  I see the piles of laundry arranged almost neatly in the suitcases as mountains of unsettled-ness to be scaled before I can breathe again.  I feel like [...]]]></description>
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