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	<title>YogaMamaMe.com &#187; too much to do</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></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>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>
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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>Never Say Never, and Never Say, &#8220;What Is That?&#8221; if You Plan on Picking It Up</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/never-say-never-and-never-say-what-is-that-if-you-plan-on-picking-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2010/05/never-say-never-and-never-say-what-is-that-if-you-plan-on-picking-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being in the moment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times, I&#8217;ve found, when, no matter how certain I was of my choice, the Universe was right there daring me to stick to it.  Telling me, in no uncertain terms, that I would be foolish to be that stubborn.
Take, for instance, bath time Thursday night.
It was then, in one, parenthood-requires-a-good-sense-of-humor flash that it [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being connected to everything]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discomfort verus pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[feeding my child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[sense of self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the bigger picture]]></category>
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		<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>Retreat of the December Mom</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/retreat-of-the-december-mom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breathing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[you can't control everything]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still ashamed, even though I now recognize it was a December Mom thing.
There&#8217;s simply no excuse for being &#8212; I can still recall the out-of-body experience of watching myself do this &#8212; the mom screaming across a crowded coffee shop at her child.  &#8220;Jake!  Jake!  JAKE!  DO YOU WANT A BAGEL?&#8221;  As if no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can Cook!  And Lots of Other Things You&#8217;d Never Know I Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/12/i-can-cook-and-lots-of-other-things-youd-never-know-i-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=186</guid>
		<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>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>
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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>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>
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		<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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