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		<title>And Speaking of Valentines&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Field Notes: Red Blooded from Coudal Partners on Vimeo. This is an ad for notebooks, yes, but someone inadvertently nailed it &#8212; except for the part about the scooters, every detail fits Ray and me. Even the number of years they&#8217;ve been together and the number they&#8217;ve been married. I wonder if he&#8217;ll mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sister Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished this year&#8217;s Valentine, and I had to share early. Annabelle drew the image of the two girls (this is the third year) and I stitched it. (Our friend Claire designed the card.) Next year we will get Sophie in on the action. It&#8217;s a nice tradition, I think. Share:]]></description>
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		<title>Go Ahead, Make My Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I think Sophie&#8217;s pretty cool, but I worry all the time that you might not agree. Like when she gets ahold of my phone and calls you (repeatedly) at 6 a.m., or gets ahold of your phone and fills it with self-portraits (like the one above), or when she comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Sticker) Charting the Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Live by the sticker, die by the sticker. That&#8217;s how it seems in our world &#8212; Sophie&#8217;s world &#8212; these days. Sophie was not behaving at school last fall, so her &#8220;team&#8221; started a daily sticker chart. For now, anyway, it works like a dream. Particularly when it&#8217;s a Justin Bieber sticker she&#8217;s getting. But it&#8217;s not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation Hearts Workshop at Smeeks</title>
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		<title>Baby&#8217;s First Skinny Jeans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, Annabelle announced that none of her jeans fit. I was a little surprised; it felt like I&#8217;d just bought her new ones. &#8220;Well, Mom, when you wear tight jeans, when you outgrow them you really outgrow them,&#8221; she said, adding another pair to the pile. Good point. Annabelle really rocks the skinny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Terrariums the Gateway Drug to More Gardening? I Certainly Hope So.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I know what I want for Valentine&#8217;s Day!&#8221; I announced at dinner the other night. &#8220;A raised garden bed.&#8221; &#8220;No way,&#8221; Ray said. &#8220;You&#8217;ll never use it.&#8221; The man has a point. I&#8217;ve killed every green thing in my path for years, and really, until I have time to even go to the farmers&#8217; market, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/01/are-terrariums-the-gateway-drug-to-more-gardening-i-certainly-hope-so/</link>
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		<title>The Hipstamatic Flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning Sophie asked for a Justin Bieber &#8220;mixed CD.&#8221; Things improved this afternoon when she asked me to read her some poems from a falling-apart copy of &#8220;Where the Sidewalk Ends&#8221; so old it has my sister&#8217;s name in the front, her maiden name written in little kid script. We read a few, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/01/the-hipstamatic-flu/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;she reads really really well but she learns kind of slowly.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annabelle&#8217;s making friends at school. She&#8217;s taken her time, she&#8217;s so wise. Or shy. Whatever. In any case, I hadn&#8217;t thought about what it would be like for her to introduce her new friends to Sophie til she got in the car this afternoon and announced that a friend had asked Annabelle why she&#8217;s so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Retarded Conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The phone rang early this morning. It was my friend Deborah. &#8220;Hey, sorry I didn&#8217;t call earlier in the week,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been snowed in.&#8221; &#8220;Literally or figuratively?&#8221; I asked, still half-asleep even though I&#8217;d been up long enough to make two Carnation Instant Breakfast shakes, a pot of coffee, a sack lunch and a [...]]]></description>
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