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			<title><![CDATA[Toy shopping an added stress for a new mom]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I made a mistake this past weekend. I went to Babies 'R Us (my home away from home) to buy my 6-month-old winter clothes. Instead, I found myself spending way too much time walking up and down the toy aisles.


It's the holiday season and as a new mom I am starting to have way too much fun.]]></description>
			<author>(Della Cassia)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:09:52</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Private vs. public school not an easy choice]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Next year, my niece begins high school and I have been debating where to send her.  Do I continue to send her to public school or does she make the jump to a private high school?


I like the teachers and support staff at the public school she attends now.  I volunteer and attend PTSA meetings]]></description>
			<author>(Dianna Gutierrez)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:35:52</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[4 girls and 'New Moon']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My husband brought home the Golden Ticket and then confessed it had been sitting on his desk at work for nearly a week.  I gasped.  A week!  We could have been holding it over our daughter's head - making her do chores, give us foot massages, etc. - for a week!  Still, we did get a good couple days]]></description>
			<author>(Stacey DuFord)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:25:09</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Let's take 'the holidays' one holiday at a time]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[&quot;The holidays&quot; - a wonderful time of year, right? But just when do &quot;the holidays&quot; begin and end? I think they begin WAY too soon.


Don't get me wrong. I love holidays, the real ones - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. But jeez, why do we have to rush into them so soon?]]></description>
			<author>(Beth Reeber Valone)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:41:39</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mommy chooses 'The Village' over daycare]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When my husband and I decided to start a family, daycare was never an issue. Despite our busy lives and demanding careers, we knew our child will be well taken care of because my mother was going to watch her.
One week after returning to work following my maternity leave, my mother was diagnosed]]></description>
			<author>(Della Cassia)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:37:01</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keep an eye on kids on Web sites]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Are you tracking your teen's Facebook or MySpace sites?


After dragging my feet for the past year, I finally allowed my 13-year-old niece to have Facebook page of her own.  Of course, there were rules she had to follow:
  First, she had to &quot;friend&quot; me, family and family friends.  By]]></description>
			<author>(Dianna Gutierrez)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:25:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baby's first trip to ER is Mom's first lesson in sticking up for her child]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Never did I want to bring my baby to an emergency room or have a reason to, but alas the time came when our baby just wasn't himself.
One day, L had a fever. We chalked it up to teething (since he is always teeting!), but when it got to 100.8 degrees and he was miserable, I called the doctor to]]></description>
			<author>(Megan Burleson)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:55:03</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Share your love of local, small business]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's old age or the economy, but more and more I find myself spreading the word about the small businesses I love and teaching my daughters to do the same.
  With the bombardment of mega-commercials (especially during the holiday season) even my daughters wonder about tag lines like]]></description>
			<author>(Mary Hickman Kruszewski)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:30:10</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hello holidays, back so soon?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The sneaky little holiday season is creeping back already. Well, I am ready for you so bring it.


Bring on the Christmas music weeks before we have our Thankful Feast cause I'm listening!


Go ahead retail, woo me with your holiday cheer and door buster sales.  I love it!


Go on]]></description>
			<author>(Rachael Isaacson)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:59:12</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MomGYB underscores importance of community]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about the community of moms is that its members tend to be very supportive of one another. Have a bad day? Another mom will listen and boost your spirits. Need a solution to a problem? Another mom will not only give advice, but she'll jump right in and help you fix it. Need]]></description>
			<author>(Beth Reeber Valone)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:10:39</pubDate>
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