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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>
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		<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>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>
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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>What If Practicing Compassion Toward Yourself Means Not Being Compassionate Toward Your Child?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/what-if-being-compassionate-toward-yourseldf-means-not-being-compassionate-toward-your-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/what-if-being-compassionate-toward-yourseldf-means-not-being-compassionate-toward-your-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it for the first time last night.
Never, in Jake&#8217;s three-plus years or Lily&#8217;s one have I even considered letting my baby cry him or herself to sleep.
Last night I did.  I let Lily cry herself hoarse and shaking for a good forty-five minutes.
And you know what?  It didn&#8217;t work.

It&#8217;s My Sleep Too
There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lily Goes Full-Time</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/</link>
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		<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>Are We There Yet? (Part Two: Preschool Version)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the end-of-the-school year potluck in Jake&#8217;s preschool class.  Same summer-ish excitement that I recall from the end of my somewhat-older-than-two-and-a-half-years-old school years.  Same excuse to eat ice cream instead of lunch.  Same sense of happy displacement at having parents on the playground in the middle of the day.
Plus, as a mother, a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to My Yoga Practice?:  Lamentations of a Postpartum Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/what-happened-to-my-yoga-practice-lamentations-of-a-postpartum-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/what-happened-to-my-yoga-practice-lamentations-of-a-postpartum-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vinnie Marino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was initially kind of excited when I sat down to breakfast this morning and discovered an article in the New York Times Style section about a yoga class I attended a few times.
It felt like a brush with celebrity, an acknowledgment of a past life maybe not steeped in but occasionally brushing up against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with Two: An Ode to My Generous Little Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/traveling-with-two-an-ode-to-my-generous-little-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/traveling-with-two-an-ode-to-my-generous-little-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Lily was awake during my acupuncture appointment.
Her newfound alertness was one of those developments you look forward to in theory, only to realize once you get there that it isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be.  Sort of like when I used to stay up half the night anticipating a trip to Disneyland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Such a Thing as a Full Circle and What Does It Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-full-circle-and-what-does-it-look-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hung up the phone yesterday thinking I had come full circle.
We hadn&#8217;t spoken in nearly twenty years, and I wonder how long it&#8217;s been since I&#8217;ve heard the laugh that brought me right back in a joyful slide to the summer I turned seventeen.  That laugh, I now remember, made me feel like I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Bad for Me Is Good Again (or at Least a Few Things)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/everything-bad-for-me-is-good-again-or-at-least-a-few-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few things that feel unshakably bad for me:  Voluntarily being outside in the snow.  Spending my work weeks in an office building (and, even worse, a suit).  Wearing my pajamas all day.  Watching television in the middle of a beautiful afternoon.  And eating chocolate.*
* I understand that I have just alienated 90% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in Motherland, or Just How Hard It Is</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/alice-in-motherland-or-just-how-hard-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/alice-in-motherland-or-just-how-hard-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon, I was like the Cheshire Cat, grinning and purring contentedly about how smoothly the first four weeks of Lily&#8217;s life have slid by.
Yesterday evening, I was Alice herself, &#8220;shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep, and reaching half down the hall.&#8221;  Unlike Alice, [...]]]></description>
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