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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>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></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>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/10/lost-in-barnes-noble-a-case-study-in-second-child-syndrome/</link>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness]]></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>The $300 Nap</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/the-300-nap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read my last post are no doubt wondering if I ever made it home to North Carolina or if I chose, instead, to raise Lily in California until she is old enough to watch DVD&#8217;s of The Backyardigans with her brother for six or seven hours at a stretch.  Or perhaps [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[too much to do]]></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>I&#8217;ve Been Coming Full Circle Lately</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am, frankly, not sure whether it makes me feel better or worse that a piece I wrote almost exactly two years ago more or less sums up my night last night.  It is called &#8212; in a feat of clarity &#8212;  How Being Kicked in the Face By a Baby Reminded Me That [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=194</guid>
		<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>H1N1 Pays a Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/h1n1-pays-a-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/h1n1-pays-a-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stuck at home with a child]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sick days]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, I don&#8217;t really know that it&#8217;s H1N1 with whom we&#8217;ve tangoed over the past week.  But I&#8217;ve been told that right now anything that looks like flu must be of the swine variety.
Like most of the H1N1 lore I&#8217;ve been hearing, there&#8217;s no telling how accurate this information I&#8217;m spreading around is.  But no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Winds with a Likelihood of Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/high-winds-with-a-likelihood-of-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/high-winds-with-a-likelihood-of-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are those (my husband) who will think me a little bit nutty for saying this, but windy days breed anxiety.
One might suggest that I am simply looking for something other than my mother to blame my anxiety on.  And that may be the case.  But I have it on good authority &#8212; my acupuncturist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn, Turn, Turn &#8230; or Not: What I Learned at Six Months</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/turn-turn-turn-or-not-what-i-learned-at-six-months/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/10/turn-turn-turn-or-not-what-i-learned-at-six-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yep,&#8221; Mike confirmed the other day.  &#8220;Lily&#8217;s acting like a normal baby.&#8221;
He said this after our first sunny fall day in the park.  After Lily and I arrived with her pouting in her stroller because I decided that much as she was demanding it I was simply not up to the task of walking to [...]]]></description>
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