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		<title>Balloon-A-Grams</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of single parenting-speaking broadly you can categorize single parents into two groups: widows and divorce/separated.  There is far more nuance than this I know but at a high level there is a dividing line.  The groups can then get further sub-divided. These Hallmark made holidays like Mother&#8217;s Day for me and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle School Talent Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night for me was spent in the gym at the middle school where 11.5 and her friend did a short dance routine for the middle school talent show. &#160;They had 28 acts total, and the show took a little more than two hours to complete. &#160;Now, I did not stay for the whole thing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I Can&#8217;t Help But Think I Need A Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 09:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: So 9.0 went to school this morning which surprised me.  So far, there&#8217;s been no call to go and get her. So, here I sit before 5:30 in the morning.  I&#8217;ve already been up for more than three hours and I am pretty sure the longest part of the day is yet to come. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing The Green Thing, Of Sorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By no means to I consider myself a &#8220;green&#8221; person and certainly my house is not a &#8220;green&#8221; house.  However there are things that I do because I feel they are beneficial to us in the house, better for society at large and in some ways can be construed as &#8220;green.&#8221; One of those things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throwback Weekend Of Sorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed into my watching four pre-teen softball games over two days this weekend was an ever rarer set of circumstances that just never happens any longer and in some ways it&#8217;s for the best and in other ways, its something I miss. The girls and I did all the food shopping together this weekend for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When All You&#8217;ve Got Just Has To Be Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>esd714</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday, the schedule this weekend is a mess, and the eventuality that would not help the most occurred, a rain out of 9.0&#8242;s softball game.  The funny thing about the rain out is it came as the sun came out for the first time all day.  I guess the fields were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistence, Try Again and Other Odds and Ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading into the weekend-with the weather forecast not good, I am kind of hoping to be able to make it through all the softball games, the recent spate of rain outs has made my carefully balanced schedule a mess.  Sometimes it&#8217;s like being in a maze, and trying to find the way out. So, all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snap Decisions and Setting Expectations-and Measuring Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the moments parents of any stripe have to judge and think about is discipline and sending a message to our kids about what is expected, what is accepted and when expectations are not met, what is the consequence.  Over time I&#8217;ve found this gets measured based on the maturity of my children, the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while.  Nearly a year in fact.  But this morning the reluctant spiritualist reappeared.  I suggest reading in here for more information, as this probably will not go too deep into detail.  But today was a chance to go back and revisit a little where I&#8217;ve been and look ahead at where I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checklisting for Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>esd714</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized today (although I had tried to figure out where to slot it in for a couple of weeks now), this year&#8217;s run up to camp is about to hit full throttle.  There are 62 days until the girls ship off for their second season of camp fun, I am determined to take the [...]]]></description>
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