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	<description>confessions of a lapsed perfectionist</description>
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		<title>Halloween in June</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/06/20/halloween-in-june/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since Halloween, so why not break out the costumes for Father&#8217;s Day?

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		<title>Olympic theme song&#8230;now with words</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/05/10/olympic-theme-song-now-with-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siena (and now Elliot, too) has been singing non-stop a song she picked up from school last week.

What you don&#8217;t hear, because Matt cut off the camera to help, are the cries of, &#8220;My booty&#8230;ow, ow, OW&#8230;my booooteeeeeee.&#8221;
I would just like to add, in case it seems callous to post a video of my child falling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So it turns out, I hate Spring Break (this post written from my death bed)</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/03/30/so-it-turns-out-i-hate-spring-break-this-post-written-from-my-death-bed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew? Who knew I could feel such a deep and fiery hatred for a calendar event I used to look forward to more than anything except Christmas? 
If I had to illustrate the week so far in a photo essay (which I can&#8217;t, because I am too tired and just generally defeated to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cat for sale</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/12/18/cat-for-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/12/18/cat-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have the dubious distinction of owning the dumbest cat ever to breathe air. [Warning: this post NSFL (Not Safe For Lunch) -- if you're eating while you read, you might want to come back later.]
Here&#8217;s what I DON&#8217;T want to deal with before 7:00 a.m., ever again:
Pig scarfs down her breakfast, then heads to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to Santa, 2009</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/12/07/letters-to-santa-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, we have the kids dictate letters to Santa. This year, Siena wrote her own, complete with phonetic spelling and inventive punctuation. Elliot dictated his and then signed it with a bunch of capital E&#8217;s. Because if one is good, several more are better. Kind of how I feel about chocolates, or hundred dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Halloween photo-posting FAIL</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/11/17/halloween-photo-posting-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/11/17/halloween-photo-posting-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know. November 17th today. And not that anyone even cares about Halloween anymore at this point, but here are some pictures anyway. I would hate to deprive anyone of seeing this sad chicken:
And how could you not be happy, growing up in a family of weirdos? (Future Teenage Elliot and Siena, please refrain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family dictionary, special &#8220;humidifier&#8221; edition</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/29/family-dictionary-special-humidifier-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/29/family-dictionary-special-humidifier-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Only one word of the day in this here family lexicon update: humidifier. It continues to baffle (children) and amuse (me), so it gets a whole post.]
Elliot had a stuffy nose the other night, so we got out the humidifier.
OK, fine: to be totally accurate I had gotten it out a few days earlier and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pizza Friday, hold the anchovies</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/25/pizza-friday-hold-the-anchovies/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/25/pizza-friday-hold-the-anchovies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I decided to start a new family tradition: Pizza Friday. I love that I can just do that, just start a new tradition whenever I want, because I am one of two adults supposedly in charge here. There&#8217;s a lot of power in being a so-called adult (and most of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catnamedpig family dictionary, part 1</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/23/catnamedpig-family-dictionary-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/23/catnamedpig-family-dictionary-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided it was time to translate a few frequently-used family expressions into plain English, for anyone who might want to converse with any of us in the near future. As Elliot talks more and more (often without stopping for air, it would seem), we seem to be developing our own local dialect.
1. Bah-do Booty
-Noun, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family photos: A how-to guide</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/09/19/family-photos-a-how-to-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/09/19/family-photos-a-how-to-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice (Hah)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While we don&#8217;t have the results here to post yet, we just completed survived our third year of family portraits with the talented Rob Mueller. I should say now that any credit for artistic framing and/or simply getting everyone to look at the camera at the same time goes to Rob. There are, however, a [...]]]></description>
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