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	<description>if you think my blog is a mess, you should see my house</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>here is the church, here is the steeple</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/here-is-the-church-here-is-the-steeple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 02:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Today I took a day off. Yup. I haven&#8217;t had one of those in a very long time. My lovely husband stayed home and watched the kids (sort of, he drove them all over the place in their wagon and spent hours at the park) and I took off to the woods. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the blog and the toad</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/the-blog-and-the-toad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t blogged at all this week. My head is in a writing project that has been all-consuming. I am not complaining though, I really enjoy writing and I think of it like a puzzle, each little piece coming together at a time. I do suffer from not-posting guilt which I am sure many other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spring break at the Jersey Shore</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/spring-break-at-the-jersey-shore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to the Jersey Shore with the kiddles. Despite dirty looks from the patchwork plaid shorts and embroidered ducks on a kelley green polo set. We figured out it was much easier to bury our children halfway in the sand than to keep chasing them down to the water line.

They lasted all of about 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>coffee-table monkeys &#38; selfishjerkism</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/coffee-table-monkeys-selfishjerkism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have lost the battle over the coffee table. I was pretty sure I was going to be able to secure that territory for awhile longer, but they divided and conquered. My forces were weak after loosing the battle of the armchair and the overthrow of the couch. I have been dethroned. My toddlers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mr. softee, the mary jane girls and a merry-go-round</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/mr-softee-the-mary-jane-girls-and-a-merry-go-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Its warm here finally. 75 degrees today. This means the Mr. Softee trucks are out playing that infernal jingle again and again and again! The jingle was almost banned in 05&#8242; under a Mayor Bloomberg noise ordinance. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>play nice</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/play-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Marlowe smacked Jack on the head after he took her toy. This happens often and lately we have been doing time-outs for a minute and then showing how to be gentle. This is our job as parents. To show our children the way to be good to others right? In our home Tom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>safari to the upper west side</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/safari-to-the-upper-west-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We took a trip to the Manhattan Children&#8217;s Museum. The little ones were a little too little to enjoy the exhibit on Greek Mythology (although the huge climb-onable trojan horse looked cool), so we headed to the little kids floor. We put them down and they both ran ahead, not looking back to see if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>un-inspirational blogging</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/un-inspirational-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it again.I spent WAY too much time futzing around on the internet tonight when I should have been sleeping or blogging. Cleaning wasn&#8217;t an option. I got sucked into my new favorite site called goodreads.com. Thanks to this site I have a HUGE list of books that I want to read now and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>opt-out!</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/opt-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well here is my public service announcement for the day. We have recently signed up for a free service that stops catalogs from coming to you in the mail. CatalogChoice.org has only been around for a short while but has already eliminated 9 million + catalogs from being delivered. Its not just the paper that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Pat &#38; bad mood mom</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/st-pat-bad-mood-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Patricks Day and the drink-fest that happens in the days before it were fun this year. We went to see The Pogues at Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Tom is friends with the singer-guitar/tin whistle/beer tray player Spider and he was kind enough to put us on the list. It was a sea of mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>neighbors</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/neighbors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn we lived in a brownstone. Three story houses that are attached to each other on both sides, a row-house. Everyone owned tiny plots of land on the inside that some people used as a back-yard, or paved over or built a shack for storage on. Behind our little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brazilian bacteria, bad dreams and blackberry nightmares</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/brazillian-bacteria-bad-dreams-and-blackberry-nightmares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has been rough, as if I needed to loose even more weight since the fun we had here with the visiting rotovirus.. I returned from Brazil with a bacterial bug from hell. Ive been in bed fighting it with severe stomach cramps and the works, the low grade fever went away, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>quiet please</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we are back in real life again, its amazing how easy it is to slip into what is familiar. Somehow I have managed to bring back from Brazil some of the calm I found there. I hope it doesn&#8217;t fade, but somehow I was able to drive around in the rain during rush hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brasil! (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/brasil-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made it back onto US soil last night after 19 hours of traveling home from Brazil. Our flight from Salvador to Sao Paulo had a stop over an Vitoria, a coastal city surrounded by mountains and the plane had to nearly drop from the sky at a 30 degree angle landing on a runway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brasil!</title>
		<link>http://motomama.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/brasil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruby and I are in Brasil, and I don&#8217;t think that I will be able to find the words to even discribe  it but ill try. We are in Trancoso a small town in the state of Bajia. We are staying with friends of ours at their huge house with 2 guest houses nestled at [...]]]></description>
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