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		<title>Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/06/girls-night-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></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>Who Said It&#8217;s Easier With One?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/who-said-its-easier-with-one/</link>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intentions versus goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning to walk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patience (and losing it)]]></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>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonharming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stillness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the bigger picture]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></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>The Triple Crown of Things That Make It Hard to Be a Parent</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/the-triple-crown-of-things-that-make-it-hard-to-be-a-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/03/the-triple-crown-of-things-that-make-it-hard-to-be-a-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The triple crown of Things That Make It Hard to Be a Parent, as I have just now decided, is a marathon consisting of what at this moment strike me as the most frustrating parenting moments:
1)  Staying home with a sick child.  For a week.
2)  Staying home with a child who is finally well on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jake and I Go to the Dentist (and Have Fun)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/jake-and-i-go-to-the-dentist-and-have-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/11/jake-and-i-go-to-the-dentist-and-have-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[play]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I climbed the curved ladder to the top of the play structure for the very first time.
Jake beat me to this milestone by several months and four decades.  But that didn&#8217;t cheapen the fun of climbing, rung by rung, up and then, a little at a time, over until I crouched horizontally over [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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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>Labor Day Indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/labor-day-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/labor-day-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not know, Labor Day is a celebration of workers &#8212; a &#8220;yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country,&#8221; according to the Department of Labor.
What I want to know is who figured giving people a day off from work was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Grows Faster in the Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/everything-grows-faster-in-the-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/everything-grows-faster-in-the-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[enjoying the moment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have acquired yet another in the growing number of items on my list of Things I Know Better Than to Do But Do Anyhow.
I have just finished sorting through Jake and Lily&#8217;s outgrown clothes, putting them away in anticipation of the spring kids&#8217; rummage sale at the Jewish Community Center to which I will [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daycare]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[social life]]></category>
		<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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