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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>
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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>Full Circle</title>
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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>I Can Cook!  And Lots of Other Things You&#8217;d Never Know I Can Do</title>
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		<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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		<title>A Truly Scary Halloween, or How I Crossed Over</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/a-truly-scary-halloween-or-how-i-crossed-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/a-truly-scary-halloween-or-how-i-crossed-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Lily will be the same age Jake was when we moved to Asheville two years ago.
Just typing those words is sending me into a shower of I-don&#8217;t-know-whether-to-explode-with-joy-or-cry-uncontrollably emotions.  For months after Lily&#8217;s birth I had to consult Jake&#8217;s old baby pictures to remember  what he was like at her age.  Now, however, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Can You Love Me So Much When &#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/07/how-can-you-love-me-so-much-when/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/07/how-can-you-love-me-so-much-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lily and I are having a bit of a love fest these days.  We gaze into each others&#8217; eyes.  We smile and giggle.  I marvel at the double dimples in her elbows and the figure-eight temple dents she inherited from her father.
And then, after forty-five minutes or so of mutual adoration, I whisk her off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharks and Bunnies:  A Potty Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/sharks-and-bunnies-a-potty-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/sharks-and-bunnies-a-potty-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a big week for growing up in the Jake-and-Lily household. And, not surprisingly, I have mixed feelings about it.
First, Lily received glowing reviews of her first afternoon in daycare yesterday and spent last night and this morning grinning and babbling at me.  Plainly, she approves.  Or so I am telling myself as I [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>The Most Natural Thing in the World</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/04/the-most-natural-thing-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the most natural thing in the world?  Breastfeeding?  The naked human body?  Worms and cockroaches and creepy crawlies?  A little flatulence after a satisfying dinner of rice and beans?
Any one of them.  Except for breastfeeding.
This declaration, I know, sounds a bit aggressive, wounded perhaps, certainly not in keeping with the spirit of someone who [...]]]></description>
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