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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>The Best Balm (even works on yet more stitches)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/08/the-best-balm-even-works-on-yet-more-stitches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/08/the-best-balm-even-works-on-yet-more-stitches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anxiety began, I&#8217;m pretty sure, a couple of Fridays ago, the day I took Lily to the doctor to check on the brand spanking new set of stitches put into her forehead by the lovely resident in the emergency room.
The doctor was a nice man, we had a nice chat, and he declared Lily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime and the Land of When Things Calm Down</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/summertime-and-the-land-of-the-when-things-calm-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/07/summertime-and-the-land-of-the-when-things-calm-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nearing the end of Michael Chabon&#8217;s book of essays, Manhood for Amateurs.   I&#8217;ve been reading it for about two months now, approximately the average amount of time it takes me to finish a book since Lily has decided that if I am going to read while waiting for her to fall asleep I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respecting your body]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toddler tantrums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too much to do]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=258</guid>
		<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>Full Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/full-circle/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting instead of making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonharming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=200</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/04/passeaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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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>Lily Goes Full-Time</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy 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[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the bigger picture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too much to do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yoga class]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Lily&#8217;s first day of full-time daycare.
Just writing it is making me cry again.  (As is wandering past my bedroom and the empty bed on which she is not napping and knowing that I will not have that unspeakably joyful moment of my day when she first wakes up from her nap and grins [...]]]></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[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner peace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[letting instead of making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></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>Are We There Yet? (Part Two: Preschool Version)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/08/are-we-there-yet-part-two-preschool-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stuck at home with a child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the end-of-the-school year potluck in Jake&#8217;s preschool class.  Same summer-ish excitement that I recall from the end of my somewhat-older-than-two-and-a-half-years-old school years.  Same excuse to eat ice cream instead of lunch.  Same sense of happy displacement at having parents on the playground in the middle of the day.
Plus, as a mother, a little [...]]]></description>
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