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		<title>I can&#8217;t decide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[if it&#8217;s annoying or endearing that the Netflix is trying to predict things for me to watch based on the Potato&#8217;s SpongeBob consumption and the Bee&#8217;s addiction to binge-watching cooking shows&#8230; &#160; Someday, I&#8217;ll miss this. I&#8217;ll have a queue that only reflects my personal viewing, and it won&#8217;t be nearly as quirky, right?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1291&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I moved out, I told my kids that I wouldn&#8217;t live with anyone else while they were still young enough to have to live at home. Both my parents got remarried, after their divorce, to people who are crazy in different ways&#8212;and the fact that I had to live with my step-parents, serially, did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1284&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my quick-witted Potato&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the kids and I went out to dinner to celebrate some great grades the Bee got on her mid-terms, and the fact that the Potato got onto the honor roll. I raised my glass and made a toast to the two of them, and told them both that I was proud of them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1279&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>kids away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I forget&#8211;Susan&#8217;s been asking me in the comments about the Bee&#8217;s leg, and I keep forgetting to answer her&#8211;but all is basically well&#8211;she got the boot off in mid-December. She has some minor pain every once in a while, but it seems to have healed well. So thanks for all the good wishes! ≈≈≈ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1277&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months and months of looking, I&#8217;ve finally found a house to buy, back in the town where landisdad &#38; the kids still live. Fingers crossed, I&#8217;ll be closing and moving in mid-January. As the kids get older, especially the Bee, their lives are just increasingly not about spending every weekend moment with me (or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1275&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s sometimes easier for me to figure out how to impart feminist values to my daughter, than it is to my son. I don&#8217;t want him to grow up thinking men are bad (or that feminists think men are bad), but I tend to talk about sexism in a negative frame&#8212;i.e., by referring to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1273&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In which the Bee proves she is the toughest 13-year-old on the planet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I posted&#8230;and I have a post I need to get out about the Potato&#8230;but first, a follow-up to my last post.  The kids had off from school today. I had to go on a one-day out-of-town business trip, so I took the Potato with me&#8212;the Bee stayed home, because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1272&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in which the Bee learns an important, though bitter, lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving to work this morning, when my phone rang. It was the school nurse at the middle school, calling to tell me that the Bee was having a nose bleed, and was freaking out all out of proportion to the situation. The nurse said, &#8220;she&#8217;s screaming and crying, I&#8217;ve never seen anything like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1268&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kids have been back to school for a week, and oh my is it wonderful. The Bee is in eighth grade this year, and she&#8217;s determined to participate in ALL THE THINGS. Student Council, the musical, field hockey, peer-t0-peer mentoring, and maybe even track and field&#8230; She came home today complaining about the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1266&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that won&#8217;t shock you to read. And I know that I have, in some regard, no right to complain at all. While you can call what I do single parenting, the reality is that I still parent my kids with a partner&#8212;and when it comes to issues around the kids &#38; their needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&#038;blog=77511&#038;post=1264&#038;subd=landismom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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