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	<description>confessions of a lapsed perfectionist</description>
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		<title>Oh, hey</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/07/05/oh-hey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still have a blog. It&#8217;s still sitting here, just waiting for updates. And the weird thing is, the longer I go without updating, the harder it seems. I used to post about anything from messes my kids made to cat barf, and I never cared. Now it seems like, if I&#8217;m only going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At least he really likes the kids&#8217; gym</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/04/14/816/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How&#8217;s working from home going?&#8221; you ask (well, maybe not you, reading this, but a lot of people have been asking me that question lately, and the answer varies wildly depending on the day). 
Today&#8217;s answer to that question would be the following story about how I spent my morning:
I got up, got dressed in [...]]]></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>Fluency</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/03/06/fluency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siena falls asleep as I&#8217;m reading our nightly chapter of Betsy Tacy. I give her a kiss and whisper, &#8220;I love you,&#8221; before getting up to leave the room. She wakes up and asks, sleepily, &#8220;Will you give me some cuddles?&#8221; I lie back down and pull her close.
As I&#8217;m lying there my mind wanders. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I the only person in my house who wants a nap right now? No, seriously, WHY?</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/03/01/why-am-i-the-only-person-in-my-house-who-wants-a-nap-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://catnamedpig.com/?p=791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love how I wrote that last post about working from home and how I more or less have it all figured out and it&#8217;s going just fine, and then today Siena is home sick and I am just now sitting down to work for the first time at 2:46 p.m., which probably means I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huh? What?</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2010/02/06/huh-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt hates how bad my hearing is. I&#8217;m constantly asking him to repeat stuff, or just plain hearing it totally wrong. 
Like just now, for example, when I overheard him talking to Siena, who was watching a travel show about Paris on public television. (That&#8217;s right, my daughter chose to spend her Saturday afternoon watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A List: Sub-par parenting moves of the week</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/11/18/a-list-sub-par-parenting-moves-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In which I reveal my idiocy for your entertainment. Once again.
I realize it&#8217;s only Wednesday, so of course, there&#8217;s still plenty of time for bigger, more dramatic parenting FAILS, but the last couple days have just been a little off. Witness:
1.  Sending a whole apple to school for snack for a child with one missing [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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>Nap Strike</title>
		<link>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/27/nap-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://catnamedpig.com/2009/10/27/nap-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elliot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elliot is on a Nap Strike right now. Like, literally right now, as in, at this moment he&#8217;s supposed to be napping and I&#8217;ve put him down twice but I hear him tip-toeing not-so-quietly up the stairs to see what I am doing. And what I am doing is ignoring him and hoping the situation [...]]]></description>
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