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		<title>Traveling with {small} children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me begin by saying that our family much prefers traveling 24 hours by plane to traveling 2 hours by car.  Don&#8217;t try and make me feel bad about that, like if I just knew all the secret tricks our kids would magically become great car companions.  It&#8217;s just the way it is.  We are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1947&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/traveling-with-small-children/</link>
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		<title>Guam &#8211; Our Sabbatical Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to announce that we arrived for our (almost) three month sabbatical with &#8211; three children, three carseats, two suitcases, two carryons, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Here we are in Japan after 20 hours of traveling, one poopy (executed, of course, right when we began taxiing towards the runway &#8211; so we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1935&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/guam-our-sabbatical-begins/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Rug Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a date with the Rug Doctor tonight.  It didn&#8217;t go so well.
So as I squat here in front of my computer desk on a damp, but still dirty and stained carpet, I resolve once again to never choose carpet.
Have human beings every invented something more disgusting and unhygienic to live with them?  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1930&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/mr-rug-doctor/</link>
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		<title>Sabbatical Preparation: Officially Begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, there is only so much a girl can write about baby-induced sleep deprivation.  (Well, not really.  But I do have a great deal of power over that publish button that keeps me from talking about nothing but&#8230;)
Today I tore into the girl&#8217;s closet and did the grand switcharoo.  Summer clothes in current (almost outgrown) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1927&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/sabbatical-preparation-officially-begun/</link>
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		<title>Still&#8230;sleepy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps blogging at 12 minutes past my bedtime is not the wisest choice.  But I must admit that my ability to form coherent thought has been rather suppressed today.  Not oppressed, just suppressed.
So Levi hasn&#8217;t been sleeping well.  Tonight marks two weeks since we began tackling the night sleeping thing vigorously.  Well, it&#8217;s vigorous for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1924&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/still-sleepy/</link>
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		<title>A Soprano of a Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did I ever mention that I&#8217;m a soprano.  I mean, I was a soprano.  I mean, I think I&#8217;m still a soprano.  I hope I&#8217;m still a soprano.  I want to be a soprano.  Still.
Four years of college and fairly regular practice, as well as one year of a master&#8217;s in vocal performance at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1916&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/a-soprano-of-a-mother/</link>
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		<title>The Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got the house blues.
Well, maybe it&#8217;s just low blood sugar.  One of the perks of parenting small children is that I eat meals consistently.  But all the fun of the last month with my brother in law&#8217;s visit has knocked that &#8216;consistent&#8217; part slightly askew.  So I didn&#8217;t get dinner before heading off to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1913&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-blues/</link>
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		<title>Potty Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected to mention the landmark event happening in our household&#8230;Amelie is learning to go potty!  Finally.  She is also becoming more eager to be a &#8216;big girl&#8217;.
So now our house is strewn with panties.  She likes changing her clothes as many times a day as she can get away with, so why shouldn&#8217;t she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1910&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/potty-training/</link>
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		<title>The Changing Landscape of Daydreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We put an offer on a home a few weeks ago.  We were the 33rd offer out of 80-something. We didn&#8217;t get it.
Which was good, because we didn&#8217;t really want it.
And we put an offer just yesterday on one we like a whole lot more.  Much more character.  But it has a pool.  &#60;thumb down&#62;  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1908&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/the-changing-landscape-of-daydreams/</link>
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		<title>White House Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you might have already guessed that I&#8217;m a huge fan of gardens, especially kitchen gardens.  I&#8217;m always peering at plantings and seeing what there is to see.   And you may have guessed that buying locally grown food is my newest revolutionary soap box and lifestyle change (even had a long conversation with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com&blog=2677180&post=1905&subd=spinninginmyteacup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spinninginmyteacup.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/white-house-garden/</link>
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