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	<title>Balancing Motherhood</title>
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	<description>Finding my way through life, career and motherhood.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hand-Me-Downs Are Chic New Apparel</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/14/hand-me-downs-are-chic-new-apparel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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When my son was born several people gave me bags and boxes full of little boy clothes their children had outgrown. I was ecstatic. I didn&#8217;t have to buy him clothing for most of his first year.
I saved much of his clothes in old diaper boxes and kept filling them up, saving them for baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need Your Love Today</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/12/need-you-love-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been nominated for a blogging award &#8212; my first nomination. I&#8217;m very humbled by this. Mainly, because I don&#8217;t know who did the nomination. It wasn&#8217;t me and I don&#8217;t think anyone from my family &#8212; which means, my Internet friends, that one of you did it! I *heart* you for this. I work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Kids About Giving</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/11/teaching-kids-about-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer my son participated in a lemonade stand that raised more than $400 for a local charity. We were so proud of him for taking part in this charitable act of giving. He thought it was all fun and loved squeezing the lemons to make the home-made lemonade. It got me thinking  about how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MJs Daughter Loves Her Dad</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/07/mjs-daughter-loves-her-dad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/07/mjs-daughter-loves-her-dad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is all a twitter with people being &#8220;over&#8221; all this Michael Jackson &#8220;hoopla,&#8221; but I&#8217;ve go to say that I think it&#8217;s a good reminder for all of us. He was larger than life for sure, with lots of friends and family. His life had its ups and downs, but one thing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth of July Photo Frame — Free Download</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/03/fourth-of-july-photo-frame-free-download/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/03/fourth-of-july-photo-frame-free-download/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s the Fourth of July I created another photo frame (like I did for St. Patty&#8217;s Day and Easter) for you to download and put your own photo in. You can save the file, open in PhotoShop, resave with the photo of your child and send to friends and family.
Enjoy!
How to:

Open july4wrap.psd in PhotoShop.
Click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Times When Mom Gets Sick</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/02/tough-times-when-mom-gets-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/02/tough-times-when-mom-gets-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago my husband was out of town for a few days and I had both kids by myself. Not a big deal, but it turned into a hardship because I became sick with strep throat. Trying to get a 3-year-old to bed while I was feeding the baby was hard enough &#8212; add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of Soul Mates</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/01/question-of-soulmates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/07/01/question-of-soulmates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the Governor of South Carolina has now said that his Argentinian lover is his &#8220;soul mate,&#8221; but he wants to try to save his marriage to his wife.
Doesn&#8217;t take a large number of brain cells to know that all of the WORLD now knows he doesn&#8217;t think his wife is his soul mate. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon and Kate’s Big, Fat, Fake Wedding</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/06/23/jon-and-kates-big-fat-fake-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/06/23/jon-and-kates-big-fat-fake-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Orlando Sentinel&#8217;s&#8221; TV Critic, Hal Bodeker posted on his blog tonight that Jon and Kate Gosselin have been living apart for two years. TWO YEARS! Not the 4-6 months they have both mentioned on their show. This makes me mad.
That makes their Hawaiian wedding renewal ceremony a big, fat fake. The photos of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Know It All</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/06/23/kids-know-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading through the recent edition of &#8220;Parenting&#8221; magazine I loved a quote it featured in its Q&#38;A section. It asked kids, &#8220;What do kids do better than adults?&#8221;
 &#8220;Have fun! All grown-up do is sit around while kids play in the park.&#8221;
&#8211; Vivian, 5, New York City
It&#8217;s easy to say we sit around because we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon and Kate’s ‘Big Announcement’</title>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/06/22/jon-and-kates-big-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2009/06/22/jon-and-kates-big-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alicia at BalancingMotherhood.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m over trying to figure out what is going to happen to Jon and Kate. TLC is promoting a &#8220;life changing&#8221; announcement on tonight&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Jon &#38; Kate Plus 8.&#8221;
But I Care
I care because I&#8217;ve watched this show a few times and I know this is a real family. It&#8217;s a family with a [...]]]></description>
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