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		<title>A day in dragon land</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Read It’s good I love my kids even when they are dragons. Today I found myself telling them both that I would search out a dungeon to put them in if they kept acting like medieval creatures. My daughter chuckled at my empty threat, informing me a dragon would be kept outside, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mini-van&#8230; and a chicken coop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago, if you told me I would be living out in Greenville with my husband and kids, that my mom would end up marrying our next door neighbor, that my husband would eventually take up hunting (of all things!) and that we would be homeschooling our kids, growing a vegetable garden and raising chickens, I would have not only told you that you were crazy, but I would have paid your cab fare from here to Bellevue.]]></description>
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		<title>Dandelion Prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sibling squabbles. Where to begin? My kids are young, so it has indeed, “only just begun” for me. However, I have already had my fill of the bickering. Not yet have I recorded how many days are “good” days, when my children enjoy each other and play nicely, but I should, because chances are high there are better days then I think.]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy in Mamahood</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2010/05/27/mercy-in-mamahood-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheers to Grace I watched a segment on 20/20 regarding stay-at-home moms who secretly drink. Consumed by the lack of appreciation, loneliness, and sometimes mundane repetition that can accompany the tasks of raising children, these women have become closet alcoholics. One of the featured moms even published a book entitled, “Nap Time is the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Illusion of Super-Mom</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2010/05/06/the-illusion-of-super-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 17:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dear friend of mine, who I admire greatly in her abilities as a mom, a wife, a homemaker, and a gifted artist, recently sent me an email that left me scratching my head. “I have to tell you,” she wrote, “I really admire you… you’re my one friend who’s advice I’d take above all else on the subject of being a mom. Not only do you ‘do it all’ it seems, but it appears you do it all so well!”]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy in Mamahood</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2010/03/25/mercy-in-mamahood-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the world of imagination A stray Dalmatian wandered through our yard recently. It would not come to us, but you can imagine our 3-year-old daughter’s elation, especially since she happened to be wearing her 101 Dalmatian pajama pants at that very moment! You’d think her favorite movie came to life before her eyes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Clean to the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2010/02/18/mr-clean-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a 3-year-old daughter who loves to color every day, and a 1-year-old son who wants to imitate but has yet to master the concept of not eating crayons or using my walls as a canvas, I’m bound to wind up with some crayon marks on the wall. I am quite certain the little stress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“It’s Groundhog Day!”</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2010/02/04/%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-groundhog-day%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laundry, dishes, diapers, meals, toys, vacuum, dishes, laundry, diapers, toys, meals, diapers, vacuum… life as a stay-at-home mom can often resemble the feeling captured in Bill Murray’s movie Groundhog Day. “I’m reliving the same day over and over,” said Bill’s character Phil Conners, a weatherman stuck in a time loop on February 2. It could be the mantra of many moms, especially during the last six weeks of winter.]]></description>
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		<title>One point twenty-one gigawatts?</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2009/12/24/one-point-twenty-one-gigawatts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prayer can be the bolt of lightening you require By Sarah Read I need a do-over day today. I needed a do-over since before the day began. In fact, I required a reset button before the sun came up. My son had his 1-year check-up yesterday. I declined his Chickenpox vaccine, but he still got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays, not hectic ones</title>
		<link>http://cedarspringspost.com/2009/12/03/happy-holidays-not-hectic-ones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Friday is a bit of a conundrum to me. There is something insincere in the detail that less than 12 hours after Thanksgiving dinner, a meal at which we gather to reflect on all that we are grateful for, folks are literally losing sleep to rush, race and shove their way to accumulate more. On the other hand, with the indulgent heights of consumerism, one could argue we are lucky to get one day of Thanks before the days of MORE resume.]]></description>
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