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	<title>YogaMamaMe.com &#187; intentions versus goals</title>
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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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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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>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>
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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[change]]></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>Retreat of the December Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[December Mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still ashamed, even though I now recognize it was a December Mom thing.
There&#8217;s simply no excuse for being &#8212; I can still recall the out-of-body experience of watching myself do this &#8212; the mom screaming across a crowded coffee shop at her child.  &#8220;Jake!  Jake!  JAKE!  DO YOU WANT A BAGEL?&#8221;  As if no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can Cook!  And Lots of Other Things You&#8217;d Never Know I Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeling rushed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mediocrity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of our Thanksgiving meal, life as a mother, as someone who is (can it only be?) eight-and-a-half months postpartum, and as a still relative newcomer to my new home &#8212; it was all beginning to seem manageable, pleasurable even.
And then Ellen turned to Mike.  &#8220;You and I should have monthly Iron Chef-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Co-Sleeper Is Gone &#8230; And Time Marches On</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/the-co-sleeper-is-gone-and-time-marches-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/the-co-sleeper-is-gone-and-time-marches-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next to my side of the bed there is a large, clean(ish) patch of floorboards.  On the other side of that large, clean(ish) patch of floorboards there is room to open the drawers on the left side of my dresser.  In between there is space for my discarded shoes and socks to breathe without having [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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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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		<title>I Want to Go to Shabbat</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/i-want-to-go-to-shabbat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/i-want-to-go-to-shabbat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shabbat starts in ten minutes.
In ten minutes, Jake will sing and dance.  He will yell, &#8220;Shabbat, shalom, hey!&#8221;  He will smile and mug and everyone there will tell me what fun he has in Shabbat.  He may even sit in another parent&#8217;s lap with one of his friends.
He will not sit in my lap because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full of Firsts &#8212; And Not a Parent in Sight</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/full-of-firsts-and-not-a-parent-in-sight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/full-of-firsts-and-not-a-parent-in-sight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought &#8212; mistakenly, as it turned out &#8212; that it was pretty momentous to be witnessing Lily&#8217;s first props-assisted rollover yesterday.
We were about midway through our hour-long drop-off at daycare.  I was pretending not to notice the time I was supposed to be using for myself slipping away as I clung to my girl.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographs and Memories.  And Babies.</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/photographs-and-memories-and-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/photographs-and-memories-and-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 20:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night, after a lovely family evening eating pizza at an outdoor table overlooking a local parking lot, I relaxed on the couch and looked through old pictures of Jake when he was Lily&#8217;s age.
That was my first mistake.

An Evening of Magical Forgetting
It was, I now see in retrospect, an evening of magical forgetting.
The moment [...]]]></description>
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