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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hardcore Christmas in the South</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<title>About Last Night&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It hit me out of nowhere. I was going about my usual weeknight routine when I realized that for the first time in months, I was…'in the mood.'<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=1242&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I started a blog. This blog. It was supposed to be a creative space for detailing my misadventures in motherhood and chronicling all the funny things my kids say and do. And for awhile, it was just that. Then I turned 39 and a thousand little waves of internal conflict that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=1216&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True Confessions Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote about Guilt. And how I have a lot of it. I was all freaked out about posting the piece because I have this infuriating need to be liked and approved of, which I am pretty sure drives He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named INSANE. But I did it anyway. Because, well, why the hell not? At some point a person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=1020&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s a Superstar&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers are notorious for telling their children they can be &#8212; or do &#8211; anything they want in life.  This is not, as I suspect some teenagers may believe, an attempt to blow sunshine up the dark orifices of an entire generation.  Rather, it is a mother&#8217;s keen understanding of the true possibility and potential of her offspring.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=982&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Funky Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t recognize The Funk when he first showed up almost a month ago. Whether from some misguided midlife crisis or an intense desire to fit in around the Christmas tree farm capital of the south, he&#8217;d put on 30 pounds, grown out his hair, and scored himself a sweet gold chain and gun rack. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=928&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The case for hoarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, I feel compelled to have actual content before bothering anyone with my random thoughts.  But it&#8217;s Wednesday.  And here in la-la-land, that&#8217;s You Can Do It! day, so indulge me.  Or wait for Thursday, when I get back to real writing.  Because right now, we&#8217;re boarding the bus for &#8221;Things Laura Gets Excited About [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=842&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding my religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some women claim they do not pray.  These women are childless.  Because I&#8217;m here to tell you, buy a couple shots for 90% of the mothers in this world, and they will cop to clawing open the little red box under the bed that bears the words, &#8220;In case of emergency, break glass, grab rosary, apologize for being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=620&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the Oscar for Best Actress in a Drama goes to&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 13:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LauraK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost Addison at the soccer game on Monday night.  For 20 minutes.  And try as I might to find the funny in that, I&#8217;m really just not there yet. You know what parents always say, &#8220;I just looked away for a minute.&#8221;  Well, it was definitely a minute.  Or less.  One second she was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timetomakethebrownies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11769194&amp;post=516&amp;subd=timetomakethebrownies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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