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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>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>
				<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>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonharming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patience (and losing it)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></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>When a Fresh Perspective Requires a Fresh Perspective (Don&#8217;t Look at Your Butt Redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:28 +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[dressing room mirrors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned my lesson when I looked at my butt in a mirror at my sister-in-law&#8217;s house while four months pregnant.
You would, in fact, not be expecting too much to think after that shock I would be smart enough not to look at my butt in a changing room mirror at a [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[traveling with  toddler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[generosity of spirit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=158</guid>
		<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>What I Learned in My First Mommy and Me Yoga Class</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/what-i-learned-in-my-first-mommy-and-me-yoga-class/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/what-i-learned-in-my-first-mommy-and-me-yoga-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonharming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the bigger picture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga class]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-love]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this day marked on my calendar for weeks.  My first Mommy and Me yoga class.
It&#8217;s been just two days since Lily officially reached the Age Where I Can Take Her Into Public Places, and the prospect of the class was even more exciting to me than Monday&#8217;s foray into Target.  Purchasing diapers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/my-refuge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/my-refuge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meditation space]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WriteMind Institute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday afternoon, I was lucky enough to be invited to the dedication of a lovely meditation space in downtown Asheville, the WriteMind Institute.  And even more lucky to have a mother-in-law in town and an infant feeding schedule that allowed me to attend.
It felt pretty darned great to take a shower, put on real [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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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>When the Glamour Is Gone:  How a Pregnant Mother of a Toddler Watches the Oscars</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/when-the-glamour-is-gone-how-a-pregnant-mother-of-a-toddler-watches-the-oscars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/when-the-glamour-is-gone-how-a-pregnant-mother-of-a-toddler-watches-the-oscars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[academy awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Kate Winslet, I, too, used to practice my Oscar acceptance speech in front of the mirror when I was eight years old.
But I don&#8217;t any longer.  Instead, last night I propped my swollen ankles up on a few pillows, threw an old baby blue blanket over my wriggling belly, and polished off the organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a Sense of Self Come with Pink Polka Dot Boots?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2008/12/can-a-sense-of-self-come-with-pink-polka-dot-boots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2008/12/can-a-sense-of-self-come-with-pink-polka-dot-boots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jake has been wearing his beloved pink polka dot boots pretty much non-stop for over a week now.

We have engaged in successful negotiations about removing them for bed time and bath time (for which he even removed his swim diaper the other night, suggesting he is finally over the traumatic poop-in-the-tub incident).  But otherwise, on [...]]]></description>
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