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		<title>Be where you are</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I find that I am  just &#8220;there&#8221;.  You know, that place that has you feeling, as my BFF says, some kinda way.  I&#8217;m just there.  It&#8217;s not like I intentionally try to go there.  I simply find that I&#8217;m there.  And as my &#8220;surrogate&#8221; Mom Judy likes to say, &#8220;You just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2305&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to a baby yogi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how children react to new situations differently.  Take the first day of daycare.  J., my oldest, cried all day and refused to eat.  R., my middle child and only girl, sat in a chair in the rear of the room all day, refusing to even take off her coat .  And then there&#8217;s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2127&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right sizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly two years ago, I blogged about The Fallacy of Space and Stuff. The premise was that we’ve bought into the idea that “bigger is better”, that we measure ourselves and our worth by the size and value of what we’ve accumulated. My idea was that we should right-size, that we should move to homes that are just the right size to accommodate our families but not big enough to accommodate all of our stuff.  At the time, I had just made the choice to confront an existence that was failing me and those closest to me. I had no idea that the blog would prove to be prophetic.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2253&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sybil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a work-outside-the-home mom is a bit like having dissociative identity disorder (i.e., split personalities).  You have these two lives that don't mesh together very well, and each life requires its own persona.  Hence, having returned to the workplace fulltime, I have become Sybil.   Read more.....<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2185&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Ya Ya Sistahs saved Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am typically the Christmas Nazi.  The tree must be Real and Perfect (well, Perfect in a ghetto baby kind of way).  The stockings are hung by the chimney with care.   The nativity scene is centered on the buffet in the dining room....  Well, this year, the Christmas Nazi couldn’t bring it.  I had no capacity to put the “Merry” in “Christmas”.  And I had no intention of trying. So I did the only thing any self-respecting mother of three high-Christmas-expectation-having children could do:  I bought four plane tickets, and I headed to New Orleans to visit the Ya Ya Sistahs.  And the Ya Ya Sistahs saved Christmas.    Read more at www.modernagemom.com

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		<title>Embracing Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I've been out of the blog game for about a year, perhaps longer.  And in that year, well, some things have changed for me.  I've returned to work full-time, continuing a career doing work that's meaningful and engaging, work that I truly love.  I've also become a divorcing mom.  (And that's all I have to say about that.)  I've embraced a depth of friendship with some and released a dearth of friendship with others.  I've added meditation between my daily practices of yoga and prayer.  And I've worked quite hard at keeping my feet on solid ground in the midst of a chilling personal and professional life storm.  And on the other side of the challenge is a concept that took a minute to get used to.  It's called Normalcy.  And I like it!  Read more.....<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2135&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Time, Pursuit of Purpose &#8211; An Update on My Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blogger: Tracey Amos a Modern Age Mom in Transition I appreciate this opportunity to once again share Leslie’s space and my voice. The seeds of this update message have been germinating for a couple of months now.  What I wanted to say all came together in my head on the heels of the sermon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2104&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We enter another year, 2010, forever grateful for the abundance that is life, complete with its trials and tribulations.  My resolutions this year are dramatically simplified:  I vow to be the best me possible, in the best and the worst of times.  I&#8217;m struck by these words of wisdom taken from the book What it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2092&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hatin&#8217; on Barbie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It finally happened.  For 20 and a few years, I've dreaded the day.  I always knew it would come, but so soon?!?  This Christmas, my daughter asked for a...a...a...A BARBIE DOLL!!!  All of my repressed feminist feelings resurfaced.  "Barbie" is one of those places that I swore no child of mine would ever go. I first deferred the Barbie buying responsibility to her Dad.  After all, how bad could Barbie, one of the Three Musketeers be?  Ultimately, I had to take matters into my own hands.  Off I went on a Mission to find a Barbie that would make her mother proud...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=2049&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living &#8220;If&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tree is decorated…well, at least the top half.  "Thing 3" has scattered the ornaments that were within his reach, but the colorful lights continue to bling.  We have the ceremonial poinsettias on the mantle.  The stockings are hung by the chimney with care.  Even Santa, now re-capitated after an unfortunate accident, stands smiling merrily under the tree next to Rudolph the Cast Iron Rocking Reindeer.  And yet Christmas 2009 brings the uncertainty of new beginnings.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lboissiere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5700571&amp;post=1987&amp;subd=lboissiere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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