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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: Picaken – a Test of Womanhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I don&#8217;t usually post this frequently but the following must be processed. I’m thinking about making a picaken for Troy’s birthday.  For those of you who may not know, it’s a pie baked into a cake.  This totally cool blogging chick, Jamie the Very Worst Missionary,* made it for her family and it intrigued &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2012/02/15/laughing-at-spilled-milk-picaken-%e2%80%93-a-test-of-womanhood/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: Romantic Valentine&#8217;s Days and other Legends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All of my friends put down Valentine’s Day.  They say it’s a made up holiday for greeting card companies to make money and so it&#8217;s stupid.  Deep down we all know they are devaluing to avoid disappointment.  But I want a Valentine and I’m not afraid to say it!” – Jenny Girl Ah, Valentine’s Day: &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2012/02/13/laughing-at-spilled-milk-romantic-valentines-days-and-other-legends/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: A Skyping Adventure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh my good golly, I just did my first ever Skype talk! Yes, a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent woman with fantastic taste found my website and invited me to speak for her MOMSNext group in Michigan. Ah, the wonders of the internet. Honestly, I don’t know who was more excited about this: me, because I was &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2012/02/07/laughing-at-spilled-milk-a-skyping-adventure/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, about Protecting Your Kids…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“(Love) always protects.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7 Dear Me, Remember when you held our oldest for the first time. He was so beautiful, flawless, innocent.  There was not a single physical or emotional scar on him and your strongest desire was to keep him that way. In that moment you morphed into a mother. This &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2012/02/02/dear-me-about-protecting-your-kids%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: I Am My Own Grandma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad is married to my mother-in-law. Let that sink in a moment. Picture this: it’s 1989 and I’m seeing a man who can only be described as my dream guy.  Compatible life goals, personality, red hair &#8211; the complete package.  I mean, this could be “the one” except… His heart was recently broken and &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2012/01/07/laughing-at-spilled-milk-i-am-my-own-grandma/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me: About Kids and Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And that ends round 2 between Jesus of Nazareth and Voldemort of Great Britain!&#8221; &#8211; Johnathan Durbin Dear Me, OK, let’s take a break from 1Corinthians to talk about the expectations you have about your kids’ faith in the Jesus area – with a Christmas emphasis. You do a pretty good job sharing your faith &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/12/21/dear-me-about-kids-and-faith/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me: About Envy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Envy comes from people&#8217;s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.” Jean Vanier “(Love) does not envy.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me: About Parental Envy, It’s so easy when you are holding your beautiful newborn in your arms to say that you will accept them just the way they are.  You and Troy &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/12/09/dear-me-about-envy/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: Franken-oven</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past July my most prized culinary possession &#8211; the convection oven &#8211; was killed by lightening.  Seriously, lightening hit our house and fried our range. It is a miracle that this was all that perished. Now, I would love to blame the fact that we have gone four months without an oven on Troy (especially &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/12/01/laughing-at-spilled-milk-franken-oven/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me: About Kindness, Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.” &#8211; Evelyn Underhill “Love is Kind.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me, OK, last time we defined parental kindness by looking at what it is not: envious, boastful, proud, rude, selfish, easily angered and unforgiving. Today I want to talk about what parental kindness is. Just listing the synonyms &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/10/26/dear-me-about-kindness-2/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: Night of IKEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(OK, yes, this post is pretty long &#8211; about double my usual length &#8211; but the experience documented below felt much, much longer) I’ve been putting off writing about this because to do so I am forced to relive the experience, but back in early September Troy and I went to IKEA. IKEA: a perfect &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/10/21/laughing-at-spilled-milk-night-of-ikea/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, About Kindness&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” &#8211; Saint Basil “Love is Kind.” 1Corinthians 13:4 Dear Me, About Kindness… We parents don&#8217;t talk a lot about kindness because it’s sort of an understood. However, it is so rich, with so many aspects to it, and so very vital to &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/10/07/dear-me-about-kindness/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing At Spilled Milk: Scrapbooking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I don’t scrapbook. Never saw the point.  Not only did I not have the time when the kids were growing up, but there was NO WAY I could have justified it to Troy, my thrifty Scotsman. “Hey baby, I’m going to take this simple $10 slip in the pocket photo album and turn it into &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/10/04/laughing-at-spilled-milk-scrapbooking/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, About Mom Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Love is not easily angered; does not fly off the handle” &#8211; 1 Corinthians 13:5 “Anger is a short madness.” &#8211; Horace Dear Me, Mom anger is an uncomfortable but important topic for us to discuss. Statistically, it holds more potential to hurt children than bullies or scary strangers at the playground because of its greater &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/09/28/dear-me-about-mom-anger/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, About Patience Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Love is Patient.&#8221; 1Corinthians 13:4 “There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness.” &#8211; Franz Kafka Dear Me, So, its 4pm Christmas Eve 1996 and the entire extended family will be descending upon your home in T-minus 16 hours. In that time you need to finish cleaning the house, prep &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/09/21/dear-me-about-patience-part-two/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, About Patience&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/09/14/dear-me-about-patience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Love is Patient.&#8221; 1Corinthians 13:4 “You can learn many things from children;  how much patience you have, for instance.” &#8211; Franklin P. Jones Dear Me, Everyone knows that parents need patience so I ‘m not writing to you of the importance of this love attribute because you’re oblivious to your need for it.  I am &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/09/14/dear-me-about-patience/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me: So What is Parental Love?</title>
		<link>http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/08/13/dear-me-so-what-is-parental-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The kids who turned out great knew they were loved.” – Aunt Louise Dear Me, What does it mean to love your child?  Well, Let’s look at what this kind of love – the kind that helps a kid turn out great – is not before we dive into what it is. Jane Austin once &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/08/13/dear-me-so-what-is-parental-love/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, about the secret to a successful child&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Me, So I promised to tell you the secret to bringing up a child successfully.  Today’s the day.  Mostly. More than a decade ago, when the kids were all still pretty young, I had lunch with our dear Aunt Louise and spent a good chunk of our time verbally up-chucking the parental panic attack &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/07/30/dear-me-about-the-secret-to-a-successful-child/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, about parental goals…</title>
		<link>http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/07/25/dear-me-about-parental-goals%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.&#8221; &#8211; Frederick Douglass Dear Me, Before I tell you the magic recipe for producing a successful child (psych!), let’s define what we’re shooting for (or what I now believe are the most important things for you to shoot for. Personally, I’m two years &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/07/25/dear-me-about-parental-goals%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, About Raising Kids Right</title>
		<link>http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/07/22/dear-me-about-raising-kids-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Me, OK, it’s time for you and me to have “the talk” about raising the kids, because I am reaping the consequences of your actions (and inactions).  I realize that this is a tricky topic &#8211; especially in our current culture – but because it is so important, I will dispense with the burden &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/07/22/dear-me-about-raising-kids-right/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Me, about PMS&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.” &#8211; Rosanne Barr Dear Me, PMS is viewed as the bane of the existence of most every woman on the planet (and their families).  However, I see it as more of a blessing &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="http://laughingatspilledmilk.com/2011/06/21/dear-me-about-pms/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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