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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>RIP Neda</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m not going to post a link to your tragic death mask, because, well, this is a family blog.
But I am going to say thank you for your sacrifice. 
And I&#8217;m sorry. 
I tweeted earlier today that the images of your death reminded me of part of the Bertolt Brecht poem, &#8220;When Evil-Doing Comes Like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=845&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on twitter and the iranian revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the first year of this blog, a little thing called Hurricane Katrina happened in this country. I was having kind of a slow week at work, and I sat in front of my laptop, day after day, watching the unfolding of a horror show that was fairly unprecedented in our country.
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		<title>end of the school year</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/end-of-the-school-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The school year (and my PTA presidency) has taken about 8.3 weeks to end this year. But now, we&#8217;re into the home stretch&#8211;it&#8217;s just here to Friday. Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll perform my last official duty as the PTA president&#8211;delivering cake to the fifth graders at their commencement ceremony, and flowers to the fifth grade parents who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=833&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>thank you, electronic memory</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/thank-you-electronic-memory/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good thing I didn&#8217;t quit blogging this year. Because if I had quit blogging, when the Bee had asked me to help her write about her year in fourth grade, I would have actually had to remember something with my brain. Instead of just coming here and looking at the highlights.
True story.
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		<title>a crime against boy-dom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I unwittingly committed a crime against boy-dom. I threw out the Potato&#8217;s gummy bugs.
Let me back up.
In kindergarten, the kids get a sticker every day that they are &#8216;good.&#8217; The stickers are redeemable for prizes from the teacher&#8217;s prize basket.
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		<title>ten things I love about my daughter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Despite the fact that it sometimes hits me personally, I love the fact that she is one. tough. girl.
2. Her enormous vocabulary
3. And wonderful sense of humor
4. Her agility, both in running and in thinking
5. The lovely, high arch of her foot
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		<title>10 things I love about my son</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The little sprinkle of freckles on his nose
2. His wide, wide smile
3. The way he wants us to pose math problems to him at every possible opportunity
4. His sweet &#38; generous nature
5. When I come home from work, he runs up to me yelling, &#8220;Mommy!&#8221; and gives me a big hug
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		<title>it comes and goes</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/it-comes-and-goes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[books for grown-ups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking that maybe I&#8217;ll be lucky if I post once a month in 2009.
De-lurking for a moment, on this holiday weekend, to post.
We&#8217;ve had an up and down month so far. Our spring, which has been filled with so much stress, finally exploded in the first week of May in a massive, all-out fight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=818&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>safety patrol</title>
		<link>http://landismom.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/safety-patrol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The Bee achieved a lifetime ambition this week, by being appointed to the school safety patrol. This is her, looking proud, but also irritated that I am publicly demonstrating that we are related, by taking her picture while she&#8217;s trying to be cool. Note the bright yellow belt, sign of maturity and imminent promotion into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=landismom.wordpress.com&blog=77511&post=809&subd=landismom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dear everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like a minute to catch my breath. Can we work that out?
There are moments in my life that I&#8217;ve thought, &#8216;gotta step away from the computer and get some real life going again.&#8217;
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