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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/TGTnoZYgG3k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/02/he-loves-me-he-really-loves-me.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-1557557856016149605</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-04T10:49:01.348-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">friends</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">north carolina</category><title>Snowbound with my girls!!</title><atom:summary>Once upon a time, twenty-eight years ago, I was a Junior at the University of Tennessee, and my boyfriend at the time introduced me to two girls, CH and CR.  They're going to kill me for posting this lovely 80's photo of them, but unfortunately, this is how we ALL looked back then!He thought we would get along, and that it would be fun to double date with their boyfriends, who were HIS friends. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/DIhxdW-EZJY/snowbound-with-my-girls.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/S2rov2F1vqI/AAAAAAAAA-k/RK4vaqWZjkE/s72-c/3219_91464842993_584582993_2506888_408965_n.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/DIhxdW-EZJY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/02/snowbound-with-my-girls.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-2075142739938162663</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T19:33:34.336-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">basketball</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>Basketball Thoughts</title><atom:summary>As I walked into the gym tonight for H's basketball game, I just had to smile.  The echo of bouncing balls, the smell of popcorn from the concession stand, the music blaring for the pre-game warm-up...I love it!  Of all the sports and activities my daughter has participated in through the years, soccer, softball, track, cross-country, tennis, basketball, dance, theatre-basketball is my favorite.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/e6R7-GgtBrI/basketball-thoughts.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/S1-2sXI_4XI/AAAAAAAAA9w/3AgK_M_oGwM/s72-c/IMG_6366.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/e6R7-GgtBrI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/01/basketball-thoughts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-1527828006505598538</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-24T20:23:54.829-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">recipes</category><title>Easy Homemade Meatballs and Spaghetti!</title><atom:summary>I love cookbooks.  I read them like novels.  Even the recipes that I would never make...too complicated, or with ingredients that no one in my family eats.  It's like a treasure hunt....every once in awhile I find a great recipe.  But I must admit, having my laptop in the kitchen has reduced the time I used to spend perusing the books.  I can do a search and find an infinite number of interesting</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/k9aYEGWiFDo/easy-homemade-meatballs-and-spaghetti.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/S1z_2yQufGI/AAAAAAAAA9g/63izUIYfwgc/s72-c/spaghetti+%26+meatballs.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/k9aYEGWiFDo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/01/easy-homemade-meatballs-and-spaghetti.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-4433964255728522120</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-14T12:03:07.529-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nutrition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">recipes</category><title>The search for easy Vegetarian Lettuce Wraps</title><atom:summary>Almost a year ago, my daughter decided to become a vegetarian.  While I respected the motivation behind her decision, I was a little bit worried about how I was going to feed my family.  We had finally gotten to a place where I could make ONE dinner and everyone would eat it.  But my husband does not think it's a meal unless some form of meat is present. Fortunately, H will eat fish, but </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/UV1rytU2aiw/search-for-easy-vegetarian-lettuce.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/S09b7netdmI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/PTMOGA7AsO8/s72-c/IMG_0806.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/UV1rytU2aiw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/01/search-for-easy-vegetarian-lettuce.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~5/xb7UViQL1mM/video-play.mp4" length="0" type="video/mp4" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=1214f299b688dfb9&amp;type=video%2Fmp4</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-1344074255699276493</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T16:32:25.114-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dating</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>The Winter Formal</title><atom:summary>I'm at a loss on how to start a post after two months of no writing...do I give excuses about how busy I've been, a synopsis of what I've been up to, or just ignore it and jump right in?  Hmmmmm...I think I'll just jump right in.January in our house is a much calmer month than any other month of the year.  Yes, school has started back, and yes, basketball season is in full force (2-3 games per </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/3azfdC5q44o/winter-formal.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/3azfdC5q44o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2010/01/winter-formal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-7839919410178705915</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-11T21:09:29.524-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">friends</category><title>Another lesson from my daughter</title><atom:summary>My daughter continues to amaze me with her insight and maturity.  She has been disappointed lately with a couple of friends that she thought were true friends, but according to her, they have "ditched" her.  She doesn't have any idea why.  It happened suddenly, without an obvious cause.  No fights, no disagreements or anything she can put her finger on.  She thinks they've just moved on.  For </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/M9YvDwLhipw/another-lesson-from-my-daughter.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/M9YvDwLhipw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/11/another-lesson-from-my-daughter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-7816806135569519145</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-09T20:44:02.425-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenage driving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prayer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>On Teenage Driving, and Prayer</title><atom:summary>Growing up, my family attended church at least three times a week; Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night.  At some point I stopped drawing on the church bulletin...filling in all the o's and p's, and started listening to the preacher.  He always had stories to help illustrate the point of his sermon.  I don't remember most of those stories, but one stuck with me, and completely </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/8j8RGrCicLE/on-teenage-driving-and-prayer.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/8j8RGrCicLE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/11/on-teenage-driving-and-prayer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-5673640742181573560</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-04T08:31:55.006-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenage driving</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>Driving Away</title><atom:summary>Almost since the day my daughter was born, I've been watching her leave.  Every time it happens, I get this heavy, empty feeling in my heart.  The first time was when her grandparents in Florida took her for a few days while J and I went on a long weekend trip when she was 16 months old.  For the first day or two that we were gone,  we were consumed with missing her.  We took pictures with us, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/wB4eT6fgKRg/driving-away.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/wB4eT6fgKRg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/11/driving-away.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-8578821052286840807</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T09:33:56.091-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">emotional quotient</category><title>A Stressful, Emotional Quotient-building morning</title><atom:summary>One of my friends on facebook recently posted on her status, "Oh, to be 15 again!"  I wrote on her wall..."You couldn't pay me enough to go back!"Don't get me wrong, I do have many fond memories of high school...Friday night football games, slumber parties with friends, sneaking out of the house to go "rolling", music blasting, hanging out at McDonald's, Pasquale's Pizza, or the school parking </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/oGfTXSc-7cU/stressful-emotional-quotient-building.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/oGfTXSc-7cU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/10/stressful-emotional-quotient-building.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-2810090310469680753</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-17T08:57:04.012-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">About me</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">my thoughts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BHRT</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">other blogs</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">north carolina</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>Top Ten Reasons why I haven't posted lately</title><atom:summary>It's 6:30 a..m...my favorite time of day.  My family is still sleeping and I have an hour or two to eat my  toast, catch up on emails, read the paper, and today I decided to face the horror of (DUM DUM DUM) the unwritten blog post.  It's been so long since I've written anything that I feel like I've forgotten why I started doing it in the first place.  I've even put a lot of thought  into just </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/0vDNGz7qwbg/top-ten-reasons-why-i-havent-posted.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/StnIEbXs2CI/AAAAAAAAA8A/D63hRvWCkco/s72-c/IMG_0059.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/0vDNGz7qwbg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/10/top-ten-reasons-why-i-havent-posted.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-8331809524997232353</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-28T16:55:40.423-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><title>Planning the Sweet 16...I'm tired!</title><atom:summary>I feel like I sat down last July and my life just zipped right by on fast forward...Last thing I remember is enjoying the relaxed pace of North Carolina, sleeping late, reading on the deck, playing golf and tennis, swimming and biking, having an absolutely incredible time with my husband (and daughter for a couple of weeks, when she wasn't away at camp).  It went by way too fast.  I was so </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/927HkYsMqLI/planning-sweet-16im-tired.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/SphR0ocLrJI/AAAAAAAAA74/4OAnapyTDik/s72-c/mackes.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/927HkYsMqLI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/08/planning-sweet-16im-tired.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-296059320064648146</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-19T08:16:11.210-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">recipes</category><title>Sun Dried Tomato Pesto with Chicken Sausage, homemeade Hummus, and summer in the mountains!</title><atom:summary>We're starting the fifth week at our lake house...the first time we've been able to get away for this long.  Thankfully, J can work from anywhere, with internet, cell phones and faxes.  It's gone by really fast...I can't believe it's been this long.  Our days are spent hiking, running, swimming, boating, golfing, playing tennis, reading, and SLEEPING!  Both of us are starting to really catch up </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/hSvtUzo-pzI/sun-dried-tomato-pesto-with-chicken.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/SmMbSmFYlSI/AAAAAAAAA6o/Fr_SfgVzKAo/s72-c/IMG_0296.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/hSvtUzo-pzI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/07/sun-dried-tomato-pesto-with-chicken.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-3598387035118331418</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-08T08:07:49.707-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">steve mcnair</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">michael jackson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">farrah fawcett</category><title>Losing Farrah, Michael and Steve</title><atom:summary>We're finishing up our third week at our little mountain house.  Even being in this remote little community, bad news finds us.  As if the loss of 70's pop culture icons Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson wasn't enough, I sat down to catch up on facebook and got the heartbreaking news that Steve McNair had been shot and killed.  I physically felt a burning in my heart, because Steve was such a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/h6AyVXUBTSk/losing-farrah-michael-and-steve.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/SlSWg4Kcg6I/AAAAAAAAA6I/QRJxrutigIA/s72-c/mcnair.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/h6AyVXUBTSk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/07/losing-farrah-michael-and-steve.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-4138120224075377448</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-29T09:20:18.880-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">menopause</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">BHRT</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">health and fitness</category><title>My experience with BHRT begins...</title><atom:summary>My girlfriends and I graduated from college in the early 80's.  Recently, my old college roommate went back to school to become a dental hygienist.  We had a graduation party for her, because at this point in our lives, any excuse for a party is enough reason to get together!  The last 25 or so years have brought many changes to our lives, jobs, careers, marriage, a divorce or two, children, and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/STOAT1VOVKs/my-experience-with-bhrt-begins.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/STOAT1VOVKs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/06/my-experience-with-bhrt-begins.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-6393347446286577744</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-15T09:18:16.539-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">facebook</category><title>My Facebook addiction</title><atom:summary>Nope, I'm not dead.

I've been in rehab, for my facebook addiction.  See, this is the problem.  I'll be just doing my mom thing, running H all over the place, and waiting for her to come to the car, and my iphone is there, just waiting, with notifications of all kinds of things...responses to my posts, old friends trying to re-connect, pictures of my friends doing whatever they're doing, old </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/ijGRQr_mY2w/my-facebook-addiction.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/SjZU7AoA_cI/AAAAAAAAA5w/9bCCN5mkgWw/s72-c/opryland.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/ijGRQr_mY2w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/06/my-facebook-addiction.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-3150421638660614746</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-11T21:01:49.966-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">teenager</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">parenting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>Driving with a Learner's Permit</title><atom:summary>I pulled up to the gym to pick H up from basketball.  She had been up until midnight the night before, cramming for two tests that she had that day.  Then, after school she had an hour workout with the D1 trainers, lifting weights and sprinting outside, then an hour with the "Dr. Dish" working on her shooting.  She was red faced and looked absolutely exhausted.  
"Can I drive home?"  (She has her</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/02yYAdkkHFY/driving-with-learners-permit.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/02yYAdkkHFY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/05/driving-with-learners-permit.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-6567089232254939792</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-23T14:17:23.541-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tech stuff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">travel</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iphone</category><title>When your iphone is in the bottom of the lake...</title><atom:summary>When you lean over to help dock the boat, and your iphone falls into the FREEZING cold lake, you know it's dead.  But it's too hard to just walk away, when you can see it sitting on the silty bottom, about six feet down.  So, you find a couple of oars, and make a game out of it!Who cares if it never works again...that was fun!</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/MJwij13u5Tw/when-your-iphone-is-in-bottom-of-lake.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/MJwij13u5Tw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/04/when-your-iphone-is-in-bottom-of-lake.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-6944065302797236754</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-10T07:19:27.846-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">friends</category><title>Benefits of Friendship</title><atom:summary>This weekend was another one for the books.  H had a three day weekend, so we scooted up to North Carolina to soak up the beauty, and to spend time with friends.  H brought a girlfriend, and J and I invited a couple, who have been our friends for 20 years to join us.  It's so much fun for us to share our little bit of paradise with friends.  H and her friend started chatting from the moment we </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/BD-T2hIjD3c/benefits-of-friendship.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/Se6AOEtnCDI/AAAAAAAAA4U/XhmgZzvJUy0/s72-c/DSC00141.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/BD-T2hIjD3c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/04/benefits-of-friendship.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-5944155081321353191</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-06T10:11:25.397-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">daughters</category><title>Meeting the boyfriend's Mom...and the Matzah song</title><atom:summary>Interesting weekend.  

Saturday night we had reservations around the piano at Whitfield's...(our favorite Nashville neighborhood restaurant).  It's pretty cool, they set the piano for 7 people, and you can eat there while John plays all your favorite Sinatra/New York, New York/ dinner music.  He's actually pretty incredible.  Has a wonderful soothing voice, and plays great piano.  The NC final </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/a8H1EhyuUOo/meeting-boyfriends-momand-matzah-song.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/a8H1EhyuUOo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/04/meeting-boyfriends-momand-matzah-song.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-717411938612957836</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-25T10:38:24.884-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">travel</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><title>Spring is in the Air...First proposal done by blog?</title><atom:summary>Yes, I know, I haven't posted anything in a long time.Basically, it's just all the normal, every day mom stuff.  Went to New York for a bar mitzvah.Can I just say, it was kind of OVER THE TOP!!  But other than the zillions of dollars they spent on the extravaganza, it was actually very sweet.  And kind of sad.  We were there for my husband's cousin...it was his son who had the bar mitzvah.  J's </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/gjS02oWo93Q/spring-is-in-airfirst-proposal-done-by.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/ScpHSoVgecI/AAAAAAAAA3A/TqGyYSWLFJ0/s72-c/IMG_0165.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~4/gjS02oWo93Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.esablog.com/2009/03/spring-is-in-airfirst-proposal-done-by.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~5/2nq91zVuGyY/video-play.mp4" length="0" type="video/mp4" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=5dad1f90f8586fa9&amp;type=video%2Fmp4</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16546204.post-2545535481712023381</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-01T22:13:48.640-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">family</category><title>Best Weekend Ever!</title><atom:summary>This had to be one of the all time greatest weekends in awhile.Friday night, H had a friend over after school, and then they decided at the last minute to attend the mixer at their "brother" school, so J and I had time for a quick dinner out, which we haven't had, just the two of us in a long time.  H had fun, no drama, so the evening was good.Saturday morning I got up early to go run a 5K </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusyMomsJournal/~3/deR0T5kgsMg/best-weekend-ever.html</link><author>busymomsjournal@gmail.com (Esa)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G1bIniL1clw/Satb2c8umDI/AAAAAAAAA2o/KzD4ekt4pNI/s72-c/legs.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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