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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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		<category><![CDATA[bed time]]></category>
		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inner beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intentions versus goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting instead of making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patience (and losing it)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[practice]]></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>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>
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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>
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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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=183</guid>
		<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>Full of Firsts &#8212; And Not a Parent in Sight</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/full-of-firsts-and-not-a-parent-in-sight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/06/full-of-firsts-and-not-a-parent-in-sight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy time]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought &#8212; mistakenly, as it turned out &#8212; that it was pretty momentous to be witnessing Lily&#8217;s first props-assisted rollover yesterday.
We were about midway through our hour-long drop-off at daycare.  I was pretending not to notice the time I was supposed to be using for myself slipping away as I clung to my girl.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Such a Thing as a Full Circle and What Does It Look Like?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-full-circle-and-what-does-it-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/05/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-full-circle-and-what-does-it-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chattering mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[following your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening your heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[past]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hung up the phone yesterday thinking I had come full circle.
We hadn&#8217;t spoken in nearly twenty years, and I wonder how long it&#8217;s been since I&#8217;ve heard the laugh that brought me right back in a joyful slide to the summer I turned seventeen.  That laugh, I now remember, made me feel like I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Return to a Past Life, or How (Really) Did I Get Here?</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/a-brief-return-to-a-past-life-or-how-really-did-i-get-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/03/a-brief-return-to-a-past-life-or-how-really-did-i-get-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choosing your path]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia Law School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivy Briefs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.yogamamame.com/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Mike handed me a book that had come free to his workplace.
&#8220;I doubt it&#8217;ll be very good,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but it&#8217;s a memoir about going to Columbia Law School.  I thought you might be interested.&#8221;
Maybe it&#8217;s the buddha-like peace that has descended on me as I prepare to give birth.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Taxes Are Done, So I Guess I&#8217;m Ready to Have a Baby Now</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/my-taxes-are-done-so-i-guess-im-ready-to-have-a-baby-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/my-taxes-are-done-so-i-guess-im-ready-to-have-a-baby-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mama instinct]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished my taxes yesterday as Jake napped on the couch and the last hour of Waitress unwound on TiVo.
I say this not to brag but to point out that I am now ready to give birth.
I have repeated it many times over the past several weeks:  &#8220;No, I&#8217;m not ready.  I haven&#8217;t done my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing When to Say No (and Not Just to Target on a Saturday)</title>
		<link>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/knowing-when-to-say-no-and-not-just-to-target-on-a-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yogamamame.com/2009/02/knowing-when-to-say-no-and-not-just-to-target-on-a-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember the last time I went to Target on a Saturday.
As of today, I know why.
It was supposed to be my break, part of the divide-and-conquer strategy Mike and I launched on this Saturday morning of oh-so-cranky toddler.
And, indeed, somehow, I needed a break, despite having spent all of an hour or so [...]]]></description>
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