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		<title>What Your Kids Really Want for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my son, Ben, was four years old a friend of ours came and visited for the afternoon. For hours, the two of them wrestled, told jokes to each other, and laughed at Randy&#8217;s Looney Tunes impersonations. That night, when I asked Ben what he loved most about Randy, he said, &#8221;He just be&#8217;s wif me.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Christmas is Really About</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This piece was first published in my 10yo daughter&#8217;s blog. She gave me permission to print it here, too.) Christmas; if you ask any child in the world to describe it, they would tell you that it is by far the best time of the year, full of presents, secrecy, and an endless flow of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome Christmas Idea for the Moms in Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/?p=716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the month of December I&#8217;m offering two copies of my book for $22&#8230;shipped! Email me at halfdoz@msn.com as this is not an Amazon deal. Here&#8217;s what one Amazon reviewer had to say: &#8220;Whether you sit down and read it the whole way through in one sitting or simply read one chapter a day, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Miss Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we missed Christmas. I mean, we opened presents and drank egg nog and everything, but somehow none of us felt like we had a Christmas. This year, I want it to be different. A few weeks ago I was overcome by the sensation that I was not alive. I was a person who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Rest…Just in Time for Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m gonna be real honest with you: I&#8217;m pooped. I don&#8217;t mean tired. I don&#8217;t mean exhausted. I mean, across the boards, Done. In. It started with playing single mommy for four months while Ian was away for military training and it is ending (note the optimism here) TODAY. Quite literally, because his &#8216;seasoning days&#8217; (whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I Wish I’d Known When I Was a Young Mama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, how exciting. All these years of writing and blogging and today I get to write the post that&#8217;s been on my mind since 2002&#8230; Because, when I was a young mama, this is the kind of stuff I needed&#8230;another mom, a bit further down the mothering road than I was, but not so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting in that ‘Just Right’ Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/?p=547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;m continuing my series of workbook-type posts for each story in my book&#8230;Today&#8217;s is Goldilocks and The Three Bears, where we have two opposite mamas, Softie Mama, and Harsh Mama and are learning to mother in between the two). *** Are you more like Softie Mama or like Harsh Mama? For those of you who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Bastard’ and Other Things This Mama No Longer Worries About</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The offense? Stolen Buffalo/Ranch Doritos. The culprit? A brother, off on a trip with his dad. &#8220;You bastard!&#8221; other brother yells. He was hungry and, thus, the epitaph, shot through the iPhone, three hundred miles away. There was a day, not so many years ago, when such brotherly communication would pull me up short. I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Your Younger Kids:  Slacking Off or Getting Wiser?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are raising younger kids alongside older kids you probably hear this twice a week: &#8220;Why do you let Jonny (fill-in-the-blank)? I never got to (fill-in-the-blank) when I was his age!&#8221; Or, &#8220;Are you going to get Jonny get away with that? If I had done that at his age, you would have whooped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Mama That Could</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Henry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/?p=545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ve been blogging my way through my new book, Humpty Dumpty Just Needed a Nap: What Children&#8217;s Stories Teach Us About Life, Love, and Mothering. Last week we started with the first vignette in the book about Winnie-the-Pooh and being the kind of Hundred Acre mamas we were made to be. This week, we&#8217;re chugging [...]]]></description>
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