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	<title>Balancing Motherhood</title>
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	<description>Finding my way through life, career and motherhood.</description>
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		<title>Separation Anxiety Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son started a new school earlier this fall and really loved going to the &#8220;new school&#8221; as he calls it. We had no problems dropping him off in the mornings &#8212; at first. After a few weeks he didn&#8217;t want to stay. &#8220;Don&#8217;t go to work Mommy,&#8221; he&#8217;d say. *crush my heart now*
I&#8217;d explain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/18/separation-anxiety-books/</link>
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		<title>The Complete Story of How I Made a Mickey Mouse Cake (Including the Disaster Photos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is supposed to be the post where I write about the total success I had over the weekend while making my son&#8217;s third birthday cake. I was ready to tell you how I conquered the art of making and using fondant.
Instead, I will tell you how evil fondant is and how it nearly ruined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/17/the-comlete-story-of-how-i-made-a-mickey-mouse-cake-including-the-disaster-photos/</link>
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		<title>Things To Keep In Mind When Baking Your Child a Birthday Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the thick of it right now. It&#8217;s birthday cake baking time. For two years now I&#8217;ve made my son a special birthday cake instead of calling up the grocery store to place an order. That&#8217;s certainly easier and no one would care (I love our local Publix cakes), but I thought I&#8217;d do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/14/things-to-keep-in-mind-when-baking-your-child-a-birthday-cake/</link>
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		<title>Being Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you become a mother it becomes harder to be yourself. To do things for yourself, but it&#8217;s exactly what you need to do. Recently, I ran across an inspirational quote that struck me:
“If I try to be like him,
who will be like me?”
-Yiddish proverb
So true. Sometimes we all try to have the house like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/13/being-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Three Years Ago I Had a Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, I have a boy. A big boy who sleeps in a big boy bed. He goes to the potty all by himself. He eats with silverware. He can almost get himself dressed by himself.
So independent.
Three years ago I had a baby. I held him close and kissed his head when I met him. Today, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/12/three-years-ago-i-had-a-baby/</link>
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		<title>How To Have &#8216;The Happiest Baby on the Block&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Harvey Karp kept my husband and I sane when we had my son. As new parents we didn&#8217;t know step one about how to handle a baby. Sure, we&#8217;d been to the local parenting classes at our hospital. We learned that &#8220;babies are slippery when wet.&#8221; We learned how to hold a baby. How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/11/how-to-have-the-happiest-baby-on-the-block/</link>
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		<title>Potty Training Celebration Cake: Way To &#8220;Go&#8221;</title>
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OK, so this is hilarious. I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing when I saw it. After thinking about it though it was probably just a mom&#8217;s way of congratulating her child on a job well done. The kid doesn&#8217;t care there is a toilet on his cake. He just wants to eat his reward for going pee-pee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/10/potty-training-celebration-cake-way-to-go/</link>
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		<title>Links To Keep You Engaged, Enlightened and Entertained</title>
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Avon Helps Women in Tough Economic Times &#8212; Women are making money selling Avon. Start up costs are only $10. Watch the video to see how one mother makes enough money to send her children to private school, help pay the mortgage and pay for family vacations.

Quit Caffeine While Pregnant &#8212; this is not news, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/07/links-to-keep-you-engaged-enlightened-and-entertained/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Girl! Now What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I found out that Baby #2 is a girl. I&#8217;ve been stuck since then.
I only know how to do &#8220;boy.&#8221;
I have tons of baby boy, toddler boy and pre-school boy clothes for Peanut #2 . Pre-school boy is ready to move into a new room with big boy toys and colors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/06/its-a-girl-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Give a Child a Christmas Present &#8212; It Might Be His First One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I participated in &#8220;Operation Christmas Child,&#8221; a program that gives gifts to children in need around the world. It was a wonderful, and easy, program in which to participate. Who doesn&#8217;t love giving to a child? Seeing his or her eyes light up when he or she opens the box. That&#8217;s the gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balancingmotherhood.com/2008/11/05/give-a-child-a-christmas-present-it-might-be-his-first-one/</link>
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