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		<title>Helping the Sleepless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had only been working in the district about a year when Shredder Guy called in. He wanted to be taken off our district newsletter distribution list for all the usual reasons, didn&#8217;t read it, waste of paper, he was annoyed to keep getting something he didn&#8217;t sign up for. Unfortunately for him, and some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1821&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jingle All The Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a beautiful sunny day and after lunch the boys and I walked to the school park for some much-needed fresh air. Tate was riding his scooter and I had Derek in the umbrella stroller, but on the way home, Derek decided he&#8217;d had enough of bouncing along and got out to walk. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1824&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Grandmother&#8217;s House We Go</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday the boys and I headed up to Tacoma to visit my Grandma Diel. My grandma is awesome. She&#8217;s 93 years old and pretty much one of the strongest, kindest, greatest people I know. I wish we lived a lot closer so we could see her more often. I have so many memories of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1819&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subbing and Pancakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy week for preschool. I worked on Monday as a parent teacher, had a late parent meeting last night and then filled in today as substitute for the main teacher, who was home with her sick son. I may have mentioned that as part of co-op, in addition to working as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1817&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy and the Boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan snapped this photo of the boys and I while we were in Minnesota. It joins the roughly five other existing photos of me with our children. I definitely prefer taking the pictures. With Tate I spent a long time still feeling like I was much younger than I was in actual years. But after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1815&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Teaching My Children to Think Things Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas seem good at the time. And by good, I mean, not terrible. But then they are terrible. Oh so terrible. Take for instance, yesterday, when the boys were bouncing off the walls, literally with giant robot claws {another maybe not so well-thought-out idea by me} and we just needed to go outside if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1806&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: I&#8217;ve been cooking out of this cookbook lately, which oddly enough I picked up at the checkout stand at Zupans. For far less than they&#8217;re charging on Amazon it should be noted. It&#8217;s paperback for heaven&#8217;s sake. Why would you pay so much for it? Anyway, all that being said, everything we&#8217;ve tried so far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1803&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bedtime Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tate still likes to read and Derek still likes to listen. Tonight is Derek&#8217;s first night in the bottom bunk bed. We&#8217;ll probably look for a mattress for the top bunk this weekend and hopefully get Tate reinstalled in his own bed, in his own room. He&#8217;s been remarkably good-natured about the guest bedroom, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1801&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Time Skier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MK</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Ryan found out that he had Monday off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Yay for the new company and their observance of all holidays! So we took the opportunity to realize a long-held family dream. We took Tate up to Mt. Hood Meadows for his first time on skis. Santa brought Tate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1795&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Second Birthday, Derek William</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Derek, You, my darling, Der-Bear, are two-years-old. I cannot believe it. You are finally acknowledging that you have turned two. Up until now whenever we&#8217;d ask you how old you were going to be, it ranged from five to 12. You seem to have finally reconciled yourself to two. You started your second year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surprisedbyjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1490891&amp;post=1743&amp;subd=surprisedbyjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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