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	<title>Bumblebee Sweet Potato</title>
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	<description>My daughter is the Bumblebee. My son is the Sweet Potato. You'll have to ask their father.</description>
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		<title>fuzzy orange, meet smooth orange</title>
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We still have one pumpkin that never got carved for Halloween, hanging out in our house waiting for Thanksgiving. Our cats are generally mystified by it, especially since I put it on the chair near the front window that gives them a view of the neighborhood, including some random other cats that occasionally wander onto [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=902&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve tried to get my kids interested in sewing, with little success. The Potato saw me getting ready to make some Christmas gifts the other day, and they both decided that they wanted to give sewing another shot&#8211;they&#8217;ve been valiantly hand sewing various items ever since. I got this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=900&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Mess with Textas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I was at a meeting where someone made an announcement about another meeting&#8211;the topic of which related to &#8220;teens who text instead of talking to their parents.&#8221; The person organizing that meeting went on a rant about how teens are &#8220;texting, tweeting, FaceSpacing (sic)&#8211;they&#8217;d rather talk to someone 20,000 miles away, than talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=898&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>growing up again?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about why I have felt the need to blog less and less frequently. I think that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t want to admit that the time for blogging has possibly passed, and I&#8217;m just riding a trend too long.
So here&#8217;s my counter-argument.
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		<title>kid theft</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bee has a nemesis. They&#8217;ve been in the same class since kindergarten&#8211;the blessing and curse of a small school being that you can never get away from your enemy.
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		<title>rainy weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re having a pretty laid-back weekend here at chez landis. The various soccer games were rained out yesterday, so we sat around, bundled up, watching TV yesterday morning, then took a field trip into the nearby natural history museum in the afternoon. Today, landisdad went out for bagels in the morning, and we&#8217;re just kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=892&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a note to my friends on the campaign side of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regular readers of this blog know, I have a job that involves working in electoral politics from time to time. Here&#8217;s a tip for those folks who are not parents, and choose to work in politics:
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		<title>scenes from a successful slumber party</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/scenes-from-a-successful-slumber-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[the cutest kids ever!]]></category>

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Girls crashed on the couch, after &#8220;not sleeping at all!&#8221;

We got the sit &#38; spin out of the basement for a two-year-old who attended&#8212;she had no interested in it, but the Potato (seen here dressed as the Boy in Black) found hours of entertainment in whirling it around.
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		<title>10 Years Ago Today 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;landisdad and I walked into a hospital as a couple of adults, and walked out as parents. (All right, that was actually 10 years from two days from now, but that&#8217;s somewhat less poetic.)
Happy Birthday, darling Bee.
I never thought that you would be almost as tall as I am, by the time you were 10 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=880&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 years ago today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/10-years-ago-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my cat killed a sparrow in the kitchen. The sparrow flew through our window during Hurricane Floyd seeking a place of safety, only to be snapped out of the air, dead before it hit the floor, by our cat, Hank, the killingest cat of all time.
Why do I remember this so vividly?
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