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		<title>Snot smells, when you can smell it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, when I left off, I was discussing Josh&#8217;s fever. This fever crept up the next day to 103 and then, that night (Friday) purple goo started to flow from Josh&#8217;s right ear (the ear with the perforated ear drum that won&#8217;t be repaired until he is five). The next morning, Josh was reduced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1567&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh has been fevering (as my Texan husband calls it) for the past 3 days now. After 2.4 years, we finally broke down and got an ear thermometer. I&#8217;ve always just felt Josh was being difficult about getting his temperature taken; now I realize that it was definitely a sensory thing. Knowing this, I sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LA here we come . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in about 6 months. Yes, we got into John Tracy Clinic&#8217;s summer preschool program this coming July! I&#8217;ve read about so many blogger&#8217;s wonderful experiences at JTC. I really cannot wait. It is a bright spot of hope in this cold, dark (but not as dark as last) winter. Hooray!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1560&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Balance with a Needy Toddler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is so hard to cut through the incessant chattering of my thoughts and plans. I am at that point in my life, where I am realizing I just can&#8217;t do it all in this lifetime; read all of the books, get all of the training I&#8217;d like, work in all of the careers I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Vulnerable, Finding Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability I definitely found this video worthy of the twenty minutes spent watching it. Stay with it. The crux of it comes down to the last 5 minutes. If you numb yourself to pain, you numb yourself to joy and gratitude. Vulnerability is key. Always.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for Taming the Toddler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I am not able to promise 100% full proof methods for gaining toddler compliance with nonnegotiable tasks. I do, however, have some ideas on the topic, gleaned from 19.5 years of parenting experience, along with the weekly observance of Josh&#8217;s speech and occupational therapy sessions. That said, I couldn&#8217;t get Josh to drink an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1539&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude Journal: 881-900</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising sun bouncing off neighbor&#8217;s white house Josh sleeping in today Pretty white snow everywhere New Year&#8217;s Eve walk with Ozzie down Raymond and seeing the business space that I saw in a dream a year or so back The Hobbit preview&#8211;awesome (for the anticipation I get to have for an entire year) Leading Hannah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1532&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Booth!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just having a little fun with my Josh this morning and thought I&#8217;d share . . .<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1524&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Images of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s beginning to look alot like Christmas . . .<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude Journal: 901-920</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hydie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of the sunshine days during this typically dark time of the year; Almost made it to the shortest day of the year; I love when the days begin to get longer again Joshy coloring himself all over with marker, showing a willingness to get messy for once (I guess OT is starting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherimperfect.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8814873&amp;post=1503&amp;subd=motherimperfect&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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