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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>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>Passeaster</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/passeaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did something I am pretty sure I&#8217;ve never done before &#8212; I threw a seder on Tuesday (does one &#8220;throw&#8221; a seder?) and I put together Easter baskets for Sunday.  (Actually, Jake and Lily got Easter baskets and the rest of the folks visiting got some perfectly serviceable Easter bags, but who&#8217;s [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Everything Grows Faster in the Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/everything-grows-faster-in-the-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/everything-grows-faster-in-the-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have acquired yet another in the growing number of items on my list of Things I Know Better Than to Do But Do Anyhow.
I have just finished sorting through Jake and Lily&#8217;s outgrown clothes, putting them away in anticipation of the spring kids&#8217; rummage sale at the Jewish Community Center to which I will [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-full-circle-and-what-does-it-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<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>My First Purim Carnival!  (and Jake&#8217;s too)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/my-first-purim-carnival-and-jakes-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/my-first-purim-carnival-and-jakes-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is, perhaps, the most remarkable change that motherhood has wrought:  I looked forward to the Purim Carnival for weeks before it was upon us.
This is remarkable because &#8212; although this was my first Purim Carnival &#8212; it was certainly not my first opportunity to attend one.
Purim &#8212; for those who have not had and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Completely LOST or Would Any Mother Choose the Husband She Thought Was Dead over the Three-Year-Old Child She Knows Is Not?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/am-i-completely-lost-or-would-any-mother-choose-the-husband-she-thought-was-dead-over-the-three-year-old-child-she-knows-is-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/am-i-completely-lost-or-would-any-mother-choose-the-husband-she-thought-was-dead-over-the-three-year-old-child-she-knows-is-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me?  Am I the only one who&#8217;s still in a state of disbelief over what the writers had Sun do?
Maybe it&#8217;s the pregnancy.
Normally, I don&#8217;t get too wrapped up in the motivations of television characters (unless they appeared on The Wire &#8212; oh, Randy, I still mourn for you).  I mean, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting the Nostalgia (Even When You Should Be Embarrassed by the Songs You Are Listening to on the Radio)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/01/trusting-the-nostalgia-even-when-you-should-be-embarrassed-by-the-songs-you-are-listening-to-on-the-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am awash in nostalgia these days.
Certainly it has something to do with the impending transformation of my status into &#8220;mother of two.&#8221;  One child, Mike and I agree, is an accessory.  Two children is an adult family.  Who can approach such a spectre without a slightly longing glance back at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Families Happen</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2008/09/when-families-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2008/09/when-families-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about my taking Jake to visit my sister-in-law Maureen last weekend was that it seemed so very unremarkable to me.
Mike, you see, had brilliantly realized that even if three of us couldn&#8217;t travel to Napa for three days to attend a wedding I had, quite frankly, been dying to attend, he could [...]]]></description>
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