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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>
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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>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>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=196</guid>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=192</guid>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[ayurveda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=190</guid>
		<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>When a Fresh Perspective Requires a Fresh Perspective (Don&#8217;t Look at Your Butt Redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/when-a-fresh-perspective-requires-a-fresh-perspective-dont-look-at-your-butt-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dressing room mirrors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have learned my lesson when I looked at my butt in a mirror at my sister-in-law&#8217;s house while four months pregnant.
You would, in fact, not be expecting too much to think after that shock I would be smart enough not to look at my butt in a changing room mirror at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lily Goes Full-Time</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/01/lily-goes-full-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></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>
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		<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>Not Everything Is Easier the Second Time Around</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/not-everything-is-easier-the-second-time-around/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/not-everything-is-easier-the-second-time-around/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is more than likely that I will spend pretty much the rest of my life debating whether Lily is such a patient, generous soul because I was in yoga practicing vasisthasana right up to the day before she was born or because, as the second child, she is doomed to my &#8220;been there, done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes You&#8217;ve Just Gotta Cry (Especially at Four O&#8217;Clock in the Morning)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/sometimes-youve-just-gotta-cry-especially-at-four-oclock-in-the-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/09/sometimes-youve-just-gotta-cry-especially-at-four-oclock-in-the-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times &#8212; many, many times in the life of a mother of two children under three &#8212; when you know that whatever it is that is making you cry is a normal part of parenthood.  The incident that has driven you to tears of despair is, you could easily tell yourself, a positive [...]]]></description>
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