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		<title>Sabbatical&#8217;s Over</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/sabbaticals-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dang, I been gone a long time.  Been swaying away from the parenting funnies and doing some more creative writing.  I just submitted a story for a contest at NYC Midnight Movie Making Madness and thought I&#8217;d throw it up here for fun.  The genre was science fiction (which I love watching in Film and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=24&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Harmonica (a bit early)!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at dinner one night, my growing kindergartner had an exceptional appetite.
As I watched him shovel in the chicken, I asked, &#8220;Did you get a snack at school today, bud?&#8221;
Through his mouthful he replied, &#8220;Yeah.  We had harmonica cookies.&#8221;
Now I&#8217;ve lived an interesting life and seen many things, but never a harmonica cookie.  So I bit.  &#8220;Um, what&#8217;s a harmonica [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=23&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with Phonetics</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/fun-with-phonetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kid-isms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a fantastic 6-year-old who&#8217;s learning how to read, so we&#8217;re all phonetics at my house these days.  I may be a word geek, but I&#8217;ve gotta say, it is a ton of fun to listen to and read with someone learning to read.
Today he drew a priceless picture of the a large bunny&#8211;which actually resembled a scary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=22&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just an infant; now a Yellow Stripe Belt</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/just-an-infant-now-a-yellow-stripe-belt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wondering where the hell the last 6 1/2 years of my life just went. 
I swear, about twenty minutes ago I was 30 and under the knife in the O.R., crying with joy as I heard the first infant cries of my oldest son when he was pulled from my body.
Today he tested out of his white [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=21&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Signs Your Family is Complete</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/6-signs-your-family-is-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Six Signs Lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  On your baby&#8217;s third birthday you post a sale ad on Craig&#8217;s List and have strangers traipsing into his bedroom and carrying out all his furniture for the next week (prompting lots of crying and shouts of, &#8220;Mommy!  She&#8217;s takin&#8217; my wockin&#8217; chair!&#8221;).
2.  You consider looking up the school superintendent&#8217;s home address after 5 snow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=20&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The English Inquisition</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/the-english-inquisition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[breakfast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d left behind the need for crack-of-dawn mental gymnastics when I left law school, and then again when I left the corporate world.
Isn&#8217;t one benefit of staying at home with children supposed to be that I don&#8217;t have to dig much past the skin of my forehead to function mentally until at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=19&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tiny Obama Fan</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/a-tiny-obama-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I volunteered in my 6-year-old&#8217;s class today, The Day After, the day Hillary Clinton won Ohio&#8217;s Democratic primary over Barack Obama.  
I am an Obama fan.
So I&#8217;m sitting next to little Meredith, my son, and two other kids in the hall outside the kindergarten classroom, constructing a giant stuffed rainbow fish.  Meredith is cutting and drawing and thinking.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=18&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hump Day Hilarity</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/hump-day-hilarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These select highlights from today day never, ever happened, and never, ever would have happened before I had my sweet two children.
1.  A potty chair of full of pee sat next to my kitchen refrigerator for two hours before I had a chance to empty it (attributable to long-bathroom-renovation story).
2.  After my own tinkle time in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=17&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All-time favorite quotes</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/all-time-favorite-quotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are some snippets from my kid-quote archive: 
&#8211;A lady at the library asked Chip his name when he was 2 1/2 years old.  He said, &#8220;Chip.  But my daddy calls me Buttabean.&#8221;
&#8211;Chip, 2 1/2:  &#8220;Mommy, you no have no penis.  Daddy have a penis.  I have a penis.  You have hair.  You have hair on yo butt.&#8221;
&#8211;Chip, ditto.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=16&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes of the Day</title>
		<link>http://kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/quotes-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kyounkin4</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  Chip (6) and Mickey (3) run around the basement like maniacs for 30 minutes playing tag, during which Mick gets 52 drinks of water.  Mick walks up to me, all seriousness, and says, &#8220;Mommy, my belly is full of water.  I feel it in there.  My heart is red.  But I think it&#8217;s gonna be pink in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kimberlyyounkin.wordpress.com&blog=2814223&post=15&subd=kimberlyyounkin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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