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		<title>When Even Vacation Isn&#8217;t Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/09/when-even-vacation-isnt-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a bit of a physical wreck these days &#8212; sore right elbow, sore left wrist, aching hip capsule.  (&#8220;Hip capsule&#8221; is a term I learned from my osteopath brother-in-law so I believe it is something that exists, or at least I know I&#8217;m not the one who made it up.)  These ailments, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nose Yourself (My Adventures in Piercing)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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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>What Wonder Woman and I Have in Common: It&#8217;s Not What You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/what-wonder-woman-and-i-have-in-common-its-not-what-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who somehow missed the news, last week Wonder Woman unveiled her new look.
When I saw her picture, two thoughts flashed across my mind in quick succession:  First, she dresses a whole lot like me.  Second &#8212; and this is the one that stuck, overcoming any embarrassment the first ought to impart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But We Got to See the Goats</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/but-we-got-to-see-the-goats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were on our way to the Dairy Goat Parade and Festival in Spindale, NC (where else would we spend a Saturday afternoon?) when it happened.
We were rolling around mountain passes, zinging like a pinball whacked between paddles, cruising through towns with names like Batcave and Chimney Rock.
&#8220;It&#8217;s too far,&#8221; Jake whined.  Until this moment [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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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[being connected to everything]]></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 the Vacation Ends and You Still Have 2,500 Miles to Go.  With Kids.</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/02/when-the-vacation-ends-and-you-still-have-2500-miles-to-go-with-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/02/when-the-vacation-ends-and-you-still-have-2500-miles-to-go-with-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My approach to the end of a good vacation is to panic.
My stomach twists into a little cherry-stem bow at the very thought of resuming a regular life.  I see the piles of laundry arranged almost neatly in the suitcases as mountains of unsettled-ness to be scaled before I can breathe again.  I feel like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine How Pushy I&#8217;ll Be By the Time Jake&#8217;s in College</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/imagine-how-pushy-ill-be-by-the-time-jakes-in-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/imagine-how-pushy-ill-be-by-the-time-jakes-in-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had it under control.
A couple of years ago I had that breakdown over Jake&#8217;s fifteen-month evaluation at preschool &#8212; the kind where they determine whether said fifteen-month-old can say anything more than &#8220;Mama&#8221; and &#8220;Dada&#8221; and pick up a Cheerio with his fingers.  And that breakdown, I felt, brought me to a [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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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