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	<description>Finding joy in the Life Ordinary</description>
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		<title>Linkey Love for Fabulous Complaint Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am behind the times so you may have already found this. But, if not, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read it. You won&#8217;t be sorry. It ranks up there with the Smithsonian Letter on the scale of all that is hilarious.
Once the tears of laughter evaporate and your kid stops questioning your mental state, come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=233&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/linkey-love-for-fabulous-complaint-letter/</link>
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		<title>Snow!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Your mind had better have instantly gone into Musical Theater mode and begun singing White Christmas or I will begin to think we are growing apart and that we hardly share a brain any more!)
Yes&#8230; 17 inches by the non-standard measurement via my snow-shovel-turned-ruler. I&#8217;m now on a steady IV drip of Nuprin (&#8220;little, yellow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=226&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/snow/</link>
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		<title>25 Totally random things about me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tagged by a few on this so I&#8217;m posting on Facebook and here on my blog. I guess you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. Yeah, I&#8217;m not going to do that. You don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=224&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/25-totally-random-things-about-me/</link>
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		<title>Every kid has a question&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wondering if every kid has some sort of core question. It&#8217;s like their Go-To question. The Squirrel Monkey is a total &#8220;why?&#8221; kid. It&#8217;s been obvious since the very first time he could wrap his mouth around the  word. He&#8217;s not satisfied to know that something just is. He has a genuine need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=221&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/every-kid-has-a-question/</link>
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		<title>A new president for a new generation&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We missed much of the pomp and circumstance of Tuesday&#8217;s Inauguration Day. We were flying home from our Disney Adventure (see upcoming post &#8220;Keeping your Cool in the Happiest Place on Earth&#8221;) during the event itself. However, the toddler-among-us did not miss out on the energy around the man of the hour.
All on his own, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=212&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/a-new-president-for-a-new-generation/</link>
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		<title>A Past-Tense Mystery Solved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have I told you about our exciting new development around here? A past.
 
More importantly, conversations about things that have occurred in the past.
 
This exercise, while exciting, is a bit of a puzzle. This is how I imagine Psychics must operate. You get these little fragments of detail presented completely out of context and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=208&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/a-past-tense-mystery-solved/</link>
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		<title>Compromise: Toddler Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we met our friends Jen and Ellie for dinner. They had suggested a pizza place. On the way there, the squirrel monkey and I discussed going out to dinner (not to mention restaurant manners). Here&#8217;s a segment of that conversation:
Mommy: We are going to eat dinner with Ellie and Jen tonight. Won&#8217;t that be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=206&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/compromise-toddler-style/</link>
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		<title>Contacts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you wear contacts? I do. And I have crazy astigmatism (probably from sitting too close to the tv set as a kid).  I need visual aid just to find my way from bathroom sink to bed. It&#8217;s 8 steps. As such, I have to wear the unfashionable and equally uncomfortable gas permeable lenses. (My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=204&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/contacts/</link>
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		<title>One Clean Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made dinner tonight.
Yes, real dinner. In the oven.
I cleaned up right after dinner.
I never clean up right after dinner (while the toddler is awake).
The kitchen is clean. For once.
Not sure why I’m surprised to find that it has snowed in my family room.
So, that’s what 5 ounces of Caldesene powder looks like spread across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=202&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/one-clean-rule/</link>
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		<title>Exercises in Futility: Art directing at the JC Penny&#8217;s Portrait Studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went into this holiday season with a vision. Not of the perfect holiday feast. Not of the idyllic moments with the family gathered around the tree. Not of any wonderful gift I&#8217;d secretly lusted after whilst telling everyone &#8220;Oh, I have everything I need. Don&#8217;t waste your money on me.&#8221; No, my mental clarity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com&blog=1410887&post=194&subd=mediocreperfectionist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mediocreperfectionist.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/exercises-in-futility-art-directing-at-the-jc-pennys-portrait-studio/</link>
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