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		<title>When Good Girls Go Mad</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/11/when-good-girls-go-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written.  (Blame the novel.  Or don&#8217;t blame the novel, just read it when it&#8217;s finished.)  A lot has happened.  Lily is speaking in three-word sentences &#8212; &#8220;Jake eat pasta&#8221; is a common one; &#8220;Man is gone?&#8221; a particularly clever way of saying she can&#8217;t find the man in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $300 Nap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read my last post are no doubt wondering if I ever made it home to North Carolina or if I chose, instead, to raise Lily in California until she is old enough to watch DVD&#8217;s of The Backyardigans with her brother for six or seven hours at a stretch.  Or perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does That Macaque Have Frequent Flyer Miles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read an article in the New York Times about a new study of male Barbary macaques. Seems these guys love to care for babies &#8212; grab &#8216;em from their mothers and haul them around to male pow wows.  Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s their own baby; any infant will do.  [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></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>
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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>I&#8217;ve Been Coming Full Circle Lately</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/ive-been-coming-full-circle-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am, frankly, not sure whether it makes me feel better or worse that a piece I wrote almost exactly two years ago more or less sums up my night last night.  It is called &#8212; in a feat of clarity &#8212;  How Being Kicked in the Face By a Baby Reminded Me That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If Practicing Compassion Toward Yourself Means Not Being Compassionate Toward Your Child?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/what-if-being-compassionate-toward-yourseldf-means-not-being-compassionate-toward-your-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it for the first time last night.
Never, in Jake&#8217;s three-plus years or Lily&#8217;s one have I even considered letting my baby cry him or herself to sleep.
Last night I did.  I let Lily cry herself hoarse and shaking for a good forty-five minutes.
And you know what?  It didn&#8217;t work.

It&#8217;s My Sleep Too
There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Patience an Achievable Parent Virtue?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/is-patience-an-achievable-parent-virtue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in seventh grade my health teacher, Mr. Phillips, told me I would make a good teacher because I was so patient.
I immediately declared that I would never be a teacher in the kind of bratty voice that comes with being nearly thirteen years old and not particularly fond of Mr. Phillips.
This brattyness, [...]]]></description>
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