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	<description>&#34;Maybe all we can hope to do is end up with the right regrets.&#34;</description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, back at Hippie School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's not a regret, it's an "experience"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you know this, but it is hugely inconvenient to have more than one child to care for when you have a sick kid. Who knew, right? Extremely poor planning on my part, to be sure. Having the stress of trying to take care of one sick kid while making sure the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I do believe in fairies, I do</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I need to do is offer up a great big group hug to all of you ravishingly pretty people who commented and emailed and kept my little family in your thoughts when I so rudely up and announced I needed to go silent for a while. I&#8217;m not sure what I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost dogs and four-pawed messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may have mentioned before that sometimes there&#8217;s a dog at Hippie School; the director was bringing her almost every day, for a while. This dog and Monkey immediately became the best of friends, because Monkey loves animals and Star is a saintly paragon of patience when it comes to children flinging themselves all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids today, man</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/01/17/kids-today-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It's not a regret, it's an "experience"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of angst and hand-wringing, I sometimes find it helpful to remember that my kids have survived worse. Even more comforting, in a bizarro sort of way, is remembering that I survived MUCH worse, and what&#8217;s more, back then&#8212;in the Stone Age, you know&#8212;no one even though it was much of a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another monkey wrench (Monkey wrench?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aspi(e)rations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First: A health update! Thank you so much to everyone who had such kind words and thoughts for my sweet mother-in-law; once again, she fooled us all. She&#8217;s out of the ICU and doing much better. This is good news because we love her, but excellent news because I don&#8217;t think Otto could&#8217;ve taken it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy banana!</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/01/05/happy-banana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because I am in desperate need of something cheerful this evening, I give you the intersection of my son&#8217;s delight and my husband&#8217;s penchant for documenting everything: (It was a Most Excellent birthday, bananas and all.)]]></description>
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		<title>A dozen kinds of wonderful</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2012/01/04/a-dozen-kinds-of-wonderful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aspi(e)rations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My current earworm: Because, yes, today my Monkey is (sing it with me!) 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12! (Remember when they only ever counted up to 12 on Sesame Street? It was like numbers higher than that just didn&#8217;t matter, or even exist.) Today we have to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The continuing saga of pestilence</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2011/12/30/the-continuing-saga-of-pestilence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health is overrated]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for the well-wishes for my mother-in-law. She had surgery and they were able to insert a rod into the bone to repair it, and it is around about this point in the story when Monkey puts his hands over his ears and says &#8220;YOU CAN STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW&#8221; because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guess who is my favorite right now?</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2011/12/17/guess-who-is-my-favorite-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://wouldashoulda.com/2011/12/17/guess-who-is-my-favorite-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offspring: ecstasy and agony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oh look! Something furry!!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without compromising the privacy of the underlings in my household, I can tell you that the three little ones &#8217;round here have VERY different reactions to impending travel. It&#8217;s funny, really, to watch them all exhibit such different behavior. An interesting anthropological study, you might say. Because there&#8217;s that whole nature/nurture thing, plus two of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s&#8230; educational!</title>
		<link>http://wouldashoulda.com/2011/12/15/its-educational/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mir</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haven't been hit by lightning yet!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'm dating the television]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You guys. I&#8230; I can&#8217;t even. Because words fail. A couple of weeks ago someone posted this on Facebook, and I watched it with a mix of horror and delight. Because LOOK: And I made Otto watch it, too. And Otto said, &#8220;No. YOU ARE NOT WATCHING THAT WHEN IT COMES ON TV.&#8221; And I [...]]]></description>
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